drumsicle wrote:
I doesn't make sense. We give Egypt 2 billion a year and sell them all kinds of weapons. We blow the shit out of Iraq to liberate kuwait and protect Saudi.
My reply is:
If oil weren't at stake, we'd take no more interest than we have in some of the genocidal conflicts in Africa and Indonesia of recent. There was no (and I mean NO) altruism involved in our defense of Kuwait.
drumsicle wrote:
During the 1973 war Israel was set to invade Egypt and Syria...we paid them not to and still give them 3 billion a year. How is are policy not even-handed. The only thing we haven't done "right" is support the destruction of Israel. Sounds like blackmail to me.
My reply is:
Our favoring of Israel comes from the religious fact that since Judaism isn't a competitor with Christianity (unlike Christianity and Islam, Judaism isn't evangelical), we feel much more comfortable with Jews than with Muslims.
drumsicle wrote:
As for the displaced Arabs, in 1948 between 600 and 800 thousand Jews were expelled from Arab lands when Israel became a state.
My reply is:
But the displaced Jews have since been the favorite sons, receiving much more aid than the Palestinians.
drumsicle wrote:
The fact that they will not except Israel's right to exist, is not our problem nor should it be.
My reply is:
In that case, then defending Israel should stop being our business as well. And soon, once there are more Arabs in Israel than Jews, this will become our problem: Will Israel become an Arab-dominated democracy or a dictatorship designed to keep the minority Jewish population at the top of the heap, as was the case once in South Africa?
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