I'm a zionist, but i'll pick any question that's based on reasherched fact that's reaserched from relatively unbiased sources.\n\nAlso - My belief is the Israeli lobby is so strong becuase it is neccessary for the survival of the country - which has the right to exist because:\n\n   -It was created as a response to the holocaust-so jews would always have a safe haven, and for once, a non-cristian/muslim home. (no offense to either group)\n\n   -It is where the Jews were, until 2000 years ago\n\n   -The jews made the country-it was a wasteland before that, with only a few minor exceptions.\n\n   -It was a safe haven for the million jews who were being wiped out in arab countries - and are today all but forgotten.\n\n   -We destroyed iraq's only nuclear research facility, back in the '80s (bush was a bit late getting there.)
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To the first ignorant poster:  the United Nations, composed of several nations made Israel a nation.  People really need to learn history.  It might also interest the poster to learn that Israel might not have become a state if it weren't for the hatred shown to them after they tried to rightfully claim their very own homes after the Holocaust.\n\nThe British imposed a severe limit on immigration right after the war.  Many nations would not allow the Jews who were fortunate enough to survive to even reside in their very own countries!  There was no choice other than to make Israel a state.\n\nBefore pointing a finger at the Jews, look at the situation surrounding the issue.
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I agree with you completely....\nWhen the Muslim controlled Jerusalem, they built mosques over Jewish and Christian holy sites, and covered the Western Wall (of the Temple) with trash by turning it into a garbage dump.\nThey say over and over that they want to push all the Jews into the sea, and that Israel has no right to exist.\nYet the state of Israel INSISTS on negotiating with the poeple who seek its destruction.  ARE THEY NUTS???????
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that is so true... zionists also make it seem like if u are anti-zionist then u are also an anti-semite exactly how that rude man behaved. Ive seen many jews like the rabbi, they are actually really nice. and it all makes sense. Zionism is terrorism, zionism is rascism, zionism is fascism. Zionism may be the root of all evil in the world. Thanks for the video. one last message... JUDAISM YES! ZIONISM NO! THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS GOT TO GO!
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Consider foremost the common values that bind the US with the Middle East's only democracy, then the strategic value to the US of a strong Israel.\n\nAmerican aid to Israel was minimal until after the Six Day War, and only took off after Israel saved US ally Jordan from a PLO-Syrian invasion in 1970. The 1979 Camp David Accords, which secured peace between Israel and Egypt, mandated increased aid to Israel to compensate in part for Israel's return of the Sinai and the resulting loss of strategic depth, air bases, training grounds and oil fields. Israel's prescient destruction of Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 stopped Saddam Hussein from having nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait nine years later - nuclear weapons he could have used against US troops during the the first Gulf War.
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It was the Palestinians who refused to negotiate with the Israelis over land, and not the other way around.  There is plenty of land for both, and the real fight has never been about sharing the land.\n\nThe Palestinians want the Jews dead.  They use the land to rally support.  \n\nI would personally not trust information from an organization called either deir yassin or jews against zionism.  Pure propaganda.\n\nIrael is our US ally.  And before we make them give up any more land, maybe we should show them by example.  Let's all give up our homes, businesses and existences and move to Europe.  \n\nIsrael's claim to Israel is more legal that our claim to the US.
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Because we have liberals that prevent comprehensive measures. It's all part of the democratic process, not that Israel isn't an essentially free nation. I agree with you. I like Israel's style. I like how they dealt with Hamas' last leader. They F-16'd him! Just one guy, but they sent a missile strike. They certainly don't mess around. I would be scared to death living right next to a Hamas' lead country, but the Israelis do it every day. They are tough as nails.
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Israel is a leader of International Terrorism.\n\nThis entity has occupied an entire country, Palestine, and kicked FOUR MILLION Palestinians out of it using brutal force.\n\nIt invaded Lebanon and Syria and Egypt. It is based on EXTREMLY extremist ideologies that claim JEWISH SUPREMACY. It is a theological aparthied state where Jews reign supreme and are allowed to kill Palestinians at will. \n\nMore than 1000 Palestinian CHILDREN! have been killed by Israel since 2000. \n\nIsraeli terrorists (Soldiers in the IAF, Israeli Agression Force) attack Palestinians daily. \n\nIsrael has Nuclear weapons, more than 150 warheads, that's enough to destroy the entire world. \n\nIsrael assasinates political opponents and has no respect for human rights.\n\nWe do say that Israel is a terrorist, just click on www.pacifica.org and enjoy the webcasts, it's only the "confused" mainstream media (bought a zillion centuries ago) that portrays the Palestinians as terrorists.\n\nLike Michael Moore said, "YOUR TIME IS UP!" and we tell those arrogant fools the same thing, "YOUR TIME OF KILLING PALESTINIANS AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT IS UP!" \n\nNO TO FUNDAMENTALIST TERRORISM CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF JUDAISM OR CHRISTIANITY OR ISLAM!\n\nThe world CANNOT sustain such sickening Jewish supremacy arrogance, where it's never again only for Jews, We say never Again for the Palestinians!!!\n\nLIBERTY TO PALESTINE FROM JEWISH FUNDAMENTALIST OCCUPATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.
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Israel has always held a special position in the world by way of its stranglehold on the US Senate and media. The US says what Israel wants it to say and does what Israel wants it to do.\n\nIf Israel decides to keep its attacks on Gaza quiet, there's not much you or I can do about it. It will be kept quiet. Even in this forum, comments against Israel are suppressed. Just read the previous posts.\n\nBesides, Israeli soldiers murdering innocent women & children in cold blood is nothing new. They've been doing it for 50 years. I've seen footage of an Israeli soldier taking careful aim at a young man running for his life and then firing live rounds. He took 3 full seconds to aim. You do not aim for 3 seconds when you are firing in self-defense. He missed, then he laughed with another soldier who was standing beside him. They looked like they were hunting ducks or something. That's the Zionist mentality. Non-Jews are considered less than human.\n\nOthers have questioned why some say Israeli deaths are acceptable while Palestinian deaths aren't. The difference is that Israelis are occupiers. The land that is now Israel was taken by force from Palestinians. If a burglar breaks into your house and you kill him, it's called self defense. It's the same thing. Israel is the burglar. Palestine is the house.
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Israel is the only Jewish state in the whole world.  The Arabs have 22 states.  The Arabs are not wiling to accept a Jewish state in their midst.\n\nIsrael thought that by leaving Gaza entirely in August 2005, that the Arabs would get their act together and develop their economy. Instead, the Arab have seen fit to launch thousands of missiles at Israel's civilian population, intending to kill as many citizens as possible.\n\nIsrael, on the other hand, is trying to live in peace.  When they do attack, it is with the clear objective of silencing the Arab terrorists.  By international law, Israel is totally justified in its quest to protect its citizens.  The Arabs are in total violation of international law by unprovoked attacking of innocent civilians in Israel.\n\nThe Palestinian Arabs could have had a state already, if they only behaved like civilized human beings.  But they have proven time and again that they are not ready to behave, and so the Arabs will have to exist with "only" 22 states.\n\nMeanwhile there is plenty of land remaining to be settled in Israel
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No\nNo\nNo\nYes\nNo\n\nI'm an atheist, but I know a religious war when I see one...\n\nI support Israel because they (Jews) deserve a homeland and where on Earth is a more appropriate place for them than Israel? The Israeli people have manged to create a livable place in that desolate countryside, all the while defending themselves from attacks from nearly every country around them...the Arabs could take lessons, I mean if the Palestinians devoted as much time and effort into governing themselves and making their environment more livable and pleasant as they did to killing Jews, there wouldn't be a need for all the violence. Do you see what I'm getting at? Am I making sense here? Think about it.
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Domo, Olmert and his band ARE the lib element of Israeli politics.\n\nAs for the question, the UN, with a few exceptions, is nothing but a group of world criminals, dictators, and terrorist appeasers and/or practitioners.\n\nThe UN won't even acknowledge "terrorism" for these reasons.\n\nDamn, I like Bolton-- and he was right to veto that slanted, one-sided, accusatory "condemnation" article.\n\nIf Hammas would stop firing Kassam rockets from Gaza into Israel.....................
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Whoever gave you this assignment is forcing you to make an argument that's both unethical and illogical. It sounds like a trap. \n\nYou just can't win it.\n\nIsrael is a tiny country of 6 million, surrounded by 300 million hostile Arabs and Muslims who want Israel destroyed. Israel is in a constant struggle to defend itself. \n\nIran, Syria, Lebanon, the Arabs of Gaza are all actively attacking Israel right now. \n\nKassam missiles are being fired into Jewish communities inside Israel everyday. \n\nhttp://www.fuelfortruth.org\n\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org\n\nGood luck.
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i'm thinking you're right on the money.\n\n\nrani...aha the truth comes out..we're the enemy and we're always going to be the enemy because we support Israel.  Let's cut the crap shall we and get down to the truth...you people just hate the thought that Israel even exists...you will never accept it as a nation..never respect it's sovereignty, and never forgive the U.S. for supporting Israel.  Well it's going to stay that way so get used to it.\n\nBut you know what..there was another option...we could have stayed home..and let you all deal with saddam.  We could have let saddam take over kuwait, then invade saudi. Then let Iraq and Iran fight it out some more....and the first damned time one American..just one...was murdered..by some terrorist hijacker...or some building was blown up, just one incident on American soil, and we turn that entire area into a glass parking lot and say theres your freaking palestinian homeland....you want it that way..you ungrateful piece of camel shit?
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very good question; the only reason the US supports israel is because of the jew-dominated politicians.. its the entire reason WHY we're fighting the middle east.. its because we support them when their own land belongs to palestinians!\n\nif we ditched israel, the conflict would end quickly
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My mother is Dawn Jean Webber born in New Jersey USA.  Her parents were Jews;Father was born in Germany and mother was born in Poland.\n\nSo I am not an Anti-Semite !!!\n\nDid Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer ...\nhttp://www.liesexposed.net/nfp/issue0207/secwar.htm\n\nMossad is already operating in the USA but are covert via the White House.  \n\nIsrael has another that is possibly more secretive then Mossad
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Sharon is (was) a war criminal. Modern terrorism (blowing up innocent people to get what you want) was invented by the Israelis. In 1946, while Palestine was being administered by Great Britain, Menachem Begin authorized the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing around 100 people, including many British soldiers who were staying there.\n\nIt is true that many in the Middle East want the destruction of Israel. However, it is equally true that Israel wants to kill every Palestinian on the planet. Israel cares only about itself and is certainly no friend of the United States. \n\nInterestingly, the only country on earth that stood to benefit from the US invasion of Iraq is Israel. Political instability in the region is to there advantage – not that they need an advantage, since Israel can simultaneously defeat the combined militaries of every country in the region. Israel is no victim and is as responsible as anyone for the continuing problems in the region.
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I knew about all of these and tell other people.  Unfortunately, people ignorantly give Israelis a permanent "get out of jail free" card regardless of how repugnant, murderous and terroristic their actions are.\n\nNo doubt you have been call "anti-semetic" as much as I have for saying these things, and no doubt you defend Israel's right to exist, as I do.\n\nOh, that's right: any criticism of Israel means you're a "nazi", no matter how factual your words are....