When the GOP Challenged Israel

janklow
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just a little outlet for our ISRAEL ? talk that i thought kingblaze might enjoy...

When the GOP Challenged Israel
The very different world of 1989

Now that Benjamin Netanyahu has followed up yesterday's speech at AIPAC with an address to Congress today, let's take a moment to flash back to another speech in another era. This earlier political period was, at least arguably, the last time a U.S. president found himself significantly at odds with Israeli policy preferances. It might surprise younger readers to hear that the president in question was a Republican. They might be even more surprised to be told that his name was Bush.

That's George H.W. Bush, of course, not Bush the younger. Here's a New York Times dispatch from May 23, 1989:

Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d said today that it was time for Israel to "lay aside once and for all the unrealistic vision of a greater Israel" and "reach out to Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights."

Speaking to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israeli lobby, Mr. Baker for the first time laid out a comprehensive blueprint of the Bush Administration's approach to Middle East peacemaking.

The Secretary of State's speech was striking for the unsentimental and unusually blunt tone with which he addressed the Israelis, for the carefully balanced manner in which he called on both sides to make concessions for peace and for the clear endorsement he gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's proposal for elections in the West Bank and Gaza as a basis for breaking the Middle East deadlock....

Although the Secretary of State's remarks were consistent with longstanding American policy on the Middle East, they nevertheless were a departure from the Reagan Adminstration in tone and structure, which both stunned and dismayed many of the 1,200 people in the predominantly Jewish, pro-Israeli audience.

In tone, the speech lacked many of the usual laudatory emotional references to Israel as a beleaguered and strategic American ally, which were standard during the Reagan Administration, especially when officials were speaking to Aipac, as the lobby is known.

In structure, the speech was almost clinically balanced between what it called on Israel to do and what it called on the Palestinians and Arabs to do. Many Aipac members later complained about the evenhandedness of the speech, an approach they fundamentally reject.

That Times piece was produced by Thomas Friedman, who apparently could write with clarity in those days. But if it's hard to imagine Friedman filing straightforward news reports built around information rather than bizarre metaphors, it's even harder to conceive of a prospective Republican secretary of state taking a tone like Baker's today, let alone doing so at an AIPAC meeting.

Yet he did, and he stood behind his words. Even after the Palestine Liberation Organization sided with Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, the Bush administration successfully pushed for Palestinian peace talks in the war's wake. (Speaking as someone who was a college student at the time: This really, really disoriented the campus left.)

A quarter century later, Baker's appearance at AIPAC feels deeply alien. Another quarter century from now, Netanyahu's remarks this week may feel alien as well. Political bonds aren't always as permanent as they seem at the time.
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  • syme
    syme Members Posts: 11
    Wow. Bush really stood up. Go bush
  • syme
    syme Members Posts: 11
    We need more bush presidents
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  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The GOP of today is nothing like those days....Netanyahu has killed tons of kindergarten and pre school kids, and Republicans and Democrats treat the guy like some type of rockstar. Go figure.
  • kingblaze84
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    edited March 2015
    And although the war criminal Netanyahu promised the world there would never be a Palestinian state under his watch, he won big in Israel's elections yesterday lol.....Republicans even backed up him up, agreeing there will never be a Palestinian state. This is gonna do wonders for America's reputation in the Middle East I bet!! Al-Qaeda and ISIS gained tons of recruits alone based on these Republican quotes.......

    http://www.newsmax.com/World/GlobalTalk/Cotton-Israel-election-Palestinian/2015/03/17/id/630723/

    Senate Republicans who welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attack on President Barack Obama's efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran are dismissing his about-face on support for a Palestinian state, a central under-pinning of U.S. policy.

    "I think it's simply a statement of fact that there's not going to be a Palestinian state,'' Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said during a breakfast with Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

    Cotton is not alone in brushing aside the stated change of course on the goal of establishing of a Palestinian state.

    Arizona Sen. John McCain, who said he has "always favored'' a two-state solution, defended Netanyahu's right to change his mind.

    "He's the prime minister of Israel, he's free to take whatever position he wants,'' McCain said in an interview at the U.S. Capitol.


    --I wonder how soon it will be before Republicans and Democrats give Netanyahu more bombs and bullets to ? more pre-school children and kindergarten Palestinians?? ? bless America lol
  • janklow
    janklow Members, Moderators Posts: 8,613 Regulator
    syme wrote: »
    Wow. Bush really stood up. Go bush
    really, i think i just miss James Baker

  • Focal Point
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    These jokers forget it's the United States of America not to Israel.
  • kingblaze84
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    edited March 2015
    The White House went hard on Israel today, I'm sure Republicans are gonna whine about this....

    White House warns Netanyahu that 'occupation must end'

    http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-warns-netanyahu-occupation-must-end-210401215.html

    Washington (AFP) - The White House on Monday bluntly warned Israel that its occupation of Palestinian land must end, dismissing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to take back controversial campaign pledges.

    In unusually tough language that underscores the fracture in relations between Washington and Israel, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said "an occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end."
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2015
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2015
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today
  • Focal Point
    Focal Point Members Posts: 16,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    if we never went to Iraq in the first place things would not be this bad today
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    if we never went to Iraq in the first place things would not be this bad today

    Yeah but you don't make a mistake better by making another one
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice

    He made a horrible choice and that agreement should never have been signed. A few car bombs vs an entire region turning into a hellhole and being destabilized by the withdrawal of American power.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice

    He made a horrible choice and that agreement should never have been signed. A few car bombs vs an entire region turning into a hellhole and being destabilized by the withdrawal of American power.

    The Iraqis were getting ? at American troops, in fact Iraqi polls and independent ones showed that 62% of Iraqis wanted American troops gone. Was Obama supposed to leave American troops in danger for a people who didn't want them there??

    The BIGGEST mistake was taking out Saddam to begin with, the second biggest one was the overwhelming brutality of the war. The Sunnis in Iraq were ? and it was inevitable that ISIS would have gotten big eventually, America can't babysit everyone.
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice

    He made a horrible choice and that agreement should never have been signed. A few car bombs vs an entire region turning into a hellhole and being destabilized by the withdrawal of American power.

    The Iraqis were getting ? at American troops, in fact Iraqi polls and independent ones showed that 62% of Iraqis wanted American troops gone. Was Obama supposed to leave American troops in danger for a people who didn't want them there??

    The BIGGEST mistake was taking out Saddam to begin with, the second biggest one was the overwhelming brutality of the war. The Sunnis in Iraq were ? and it was inevitable that ISIS would have gotten big eventually, America can't babysit everyone.

    The bolded is correct and that's it.

    all war is brutal but us leaving clearly made ? worse you really think isis could have overran whole ? cities in iraq if we were still there??? stop talking out of your ass. The sunnis in iraq were ? when we took over but they really became ? when the shia took over the government and that's when the islamic state in iraq really grew.

    our troops were in danger but that's part of the job
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice

    He made a horrible choice and that agreement should never have been signed. A few car bombs vs an entire region turning into a hellhole and being destabilized by the withdrawal of American power.

    The Iraqis were getting ? at American troops, in fact Iraqi polls and independent ones showed that 62% of Iraqis wanted American troops gone. Was Obama supposed to leave American troops in danger for a people who didn't want them there??

    The BIGGEST mistake was taking out Saddam to begin with, the second biggest one was the overwhelming brutality of the war. The Sunnis in Iraq were ? and it was inevitable that ISIS would have gotten big eventually, America can't babysit everyone.

    The bolded is correct and that's it.

    all war is brutal but us leaving clearly made ? worse you really think isis could have overran whole ? cities in iraq if we were still there??? stop talking out of your ass. The sunnis in iraq were ? when we took over but they really became ? when the shia took over the government and that's when the islamic state in iraq really grew.

    our troops were in danger but that's part of the job

    Assuming that's all correct, you gonna be in an uphill climb trying to convince anyone that we need to put 170,000 American troops back into Iraq again.....Americans can't babysit mufuckas forever, that's why even Bush the ? agreed to send troops home after 2011.

    You gonna vote Republican in 2016 for president????
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    It's time for obama to get the ? out of office hopefully the next president will be republican because his foreign policy sucks if not for his stupid mistakes there would have been no isis

    Blame Bush and Republicans too for ISIS being created, your idol John Mccain cheerleaded the war that took out Saddam....and we know what Mccain helped do in Libya, funny how ISIS has big control of big parts of those nations now.

    if Obama had never pulled out of Iraq things would not be this bad today

    Obama followed the Bush-Iraqi agreement of withdrawing troops by December 2011 though....Bush signed the agreement that American troops would leave by 2011, and Obama followed that agreement, Iraqis and the Iraqi govt didn't like American troops being there.....even if Americans did stay, they would have still been shot at and car bombed, so Obama made the right choice

    He made a horrible choice and that agreement should never have been signed. A few car bombs vs an entire region turning into a hellhole and being destabilized by the withdrawal of American power.

    The Iraqis were getting ? at American troops, in fact Iraqi polls and independent ones showed that 62% of Iraqis wanted American troops gone. Was Obama supposed to leave American troops in danger for a people who didn't want them there??

    The BIGGEST mistake was taking out Saddam to begin with, the second biggest one was the overwhelming brutality of the war. The Sunnis in Iraq were ? and it was inevitable that ISIS would have gotten big eventually, America can't babysit everyone.

    The bolded is correct and that's it.

    all war is brutal but us leaving clearly made ? worse you really think isis could have overran whole ? cities in iraq if we were still there??? stop talking out of your ass. The sunnis in iraq were ? when we took over but they really became ? when the shia took over the government and that's when the islamic state in iraq really grew.

    our troops were in danger but that's part of the job

    Assuming that's all correct, you gonna be in an uphill climb trying to convince anyone that we need to put 170,000 American troops back into Iraq again.....Americans can't babysit mufuckas forever, that's why even Bush the ? agreed to send troops home after 2011.

    You gonna vote Republican in 2016 for president????

    who i vote for always comes down to the individual and their values vs the other candidates values
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??

    It's a military and economic alliance they also share lots of intelligence information with america. who knows how many terrorist attacks have been stopped because of that information
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2015
    zombie wrote: »
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??

    It's a military and economic alliance they also share lots of intelligence information with america. who knows how many terrorist attacks have been stopped because of that information

    Economic alliance for politicians and groups that aid them, not for the American people. Military alliance, how? Israel bombed a bunch of American sailors in 1967 and despite that, has done nothing to help America in its many wars in the region. Where is the help from them, they're the ones whining about Iran doing big things with Iraq, so why isn't Israel helping out....face it, Israel is a drain, America is losing respect from the world and our vetoes protecting Israel in the UN looks like a joke.
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    zombie wrote: »
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??

    It's a military and economic alliance they also share lots of intelligence information with america. who knows how many terrorist attacks have been stopped because of that information

    Economic alliance for politicians and groups that aid them, not for the American people. Military alliance, how? Israel bombed a bunch of American sailors in 1967 and despite that, has done nothing to help America in its many wars in the region. Where is the help from them, they're the ones whining about Iran doing big things with Iraq, so why isn't Israel helping out....face it, Israel is a drain, America is losing respect from the world and our vetoes protecting Israel in the UN looks like a joke.

    SMH... 1967 ? there is something called friendly fire and in any case every relationship changes, over time america has grown closer and closer to israel. ISREAL actively engaging in direct conflict would be the worse thing to happen in the middle east it would be like a signal to all the arabs to invade israel. which would only be a disaster for every one involved. what many wars in the region???? we have only had two wars there since the early 90's

    what world are you living in????

    AND LIKE I SAID a lot of there help is in the form of intelligence information you keep talking about this respect from the world ? the people who are allied with america are linked to us based on their own interest not how much they respect us. ? the respect of people who are ideologically opposed to you.

    You think america wanted the love of russia during the cold war???? no

    If we drop an ally as close as israel what does that say to our other allies all over the world?????
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    we don't have to compromise too much with people in the middle east we have the supreme leverage of superior military force and the most powerful economy in the world. There respect will be great to have but we don't have to bow to their ? to accomplish what we want. All america really needs is strong leadership instead we elected a fool in george bush that was easily manipulated by the military industrial complex. Obama is a good man but he is also a short sighted weakling.

    the man withdrew from iraq before the place and really got the concept of democracy, he drew red lines for syria and when they crossed it he did nothing thus encouraging the behavior of isis.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2015
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??

    It's a military and economic alliance they also share lots of intelligence information with america. who knows how many terrorist attacks have been stopped because of that information

    Economic alliance for politicians and groups that aid them, not for the American people. Military alliance, how? Israel bombed a bunch of American sailors in 1967 and despite that, has done nothing to help America in its many wars in the region. Where is the help from them, they're the ones whining about Iran doing big things with Iraq, so why isn't Israel helping out....face it, Israel is a drain, America is losing respect from the world and our vetoes protecting Israel in the UN looks like a joke.

    SMH... 1967 ? there is something called friendly fire and in any case every relationship changes, over time america has grown closer and closer to israel. ISREAL actively engaging in direct conflict would be the worse thing to happen in the middle east it would be like a signal to all the arabs to invade israel. which would only be a disaster for every one involved. what many wars in the region???? we have only had two wars there since the early 90's

    what world are you living in????

    AND LIKE I SAID a lot of there help is in the form of intelligence information you keep talking about this respect from the world ? the people who are allied with america are linked to us based on their own interest not how much they respect us. ? the respect of people who are ideologically opposed to you.

    You think america wanted the love of russia during the cold war???? no

    If we drop an ally as close as israel what does that say to our other allies all over the world?????

    So if Israel can't help out in any of America's conflicts in the Middle East and north Africa, then again, what the hell is it good for? Israel's intelligence is TERRIBLE, they said in the 80s Iran would build a nuclear weapon within a decade, and it's 2015 and Iran still doesn't have one. Israel's intelligence said Saddam likely did have WMDs and we of course know Saddam only had the little chemical weapons he bought from France and Germany. Israel's intelligence is a bad joke and the scam of modern times.

    As far as Israel and helping America fight its constant battles, why can't the little parasite nation of Israel help out? They're such a BIG help to America right? Oh that's right, Israel is hated in the region so again, what ? good are they? Their intelligence sucks, and they barely repay their loans, I'm not even sure if they do. Dropping Israel or at least the govt they have now would tell the world America is ready to not support terrorism for once.

    And did you smoke something, America has been in many conflicts in the region, just two since the 90s, what the hell? You forgot about.....ah nevermind, you on one.
  • zombie
    zombie Members Posts: 13,450 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2015
    zombie wrote: »
    zombie wrote: »
    Can anyone explain what the hell does supporting Israel do for America....? It oppresses and steals land from people, commits war crimes every few months, ruins America's reputation, and doesn't do ? to help America with its own problems......

    What the ? does Israel do for America, aside from acting like a parasite off America's back??

    It's a military and economic alliance they also share lots of intelligence information with america. who knows how many terrorist attacks have been stopped because of that information

    Economic alliance for politicians and groups that aid them, not for the American people. Military alliance, how? Israel bombed a bunch of American sailors in 1967 and despite that, has done nothing to help America in its many wars in the region. Where is the help from them, they're the ones whining about Iran doing big things with Iraq, so why isn't Israel helping out....face it, Israel is a drain, America is losing respect from the world and our vetoes protecting Israel in the UN looks like a joke.

    SMH... 1967 ? there is something called friendly fire and in any case every relationship changes, over time america has grown closer and closer to israel. ISREAL actively engaging in direct conflict would be the worse thing to happen in the middle east it would be like a signal to all the arabs to invade israel. which would only be a disaster for every one involved. what many wars in the region???? we have only had two wars there since the early 90's

    what world are you living in????

    AND LIKE I SAID a lot of there help is in the form of intelligence information you keep talking about this respect from the world ? the people who are allied with america are linked to us based on their own interest not how much they respect us. ? the respect of people who are ideologically opposed to you.

    You think america wanted the love of russia during the cold war???? no

    If we drop an ally as close as israel what does that say to our other allies all over the world?????

    So if Israel can't help out in any of America's conflicts in the Middle East and north Africa, then again, what the hell is it good for? Israel's intelligence is TERRIBLE, they said in the 80s Iran would build a nuclear weapon within a decade, and it's 2015 and Iran still doesn't have one. Israel's intelligence said Saddam likely did have WMDs and we of course know Saddam only had the little chemical weapons he bought from France and Germany. Israel's intelligence is a bad joke and the scam of modern times.

    As far as Israel and helping America fight its constant battles, why can't the little parasite nation of Israel help out? They're such a BIG help to America right? Oh that's right, Israel is hated in the region so again, what ? good are they? Their intelligence sucks, and they barely repay their loans, I'm not even sure if they do. Dropping Israel or at least the govt they have now would tell the world America is ready to not support terrorism for once.

    And did you smoke something, America has been in many conflicts in the region, just two since the 90s, what the hell? You forgot about.....ah nevermind, you on one.

    They DO HELP they run one of the worlds best intelligence agencies, iran has not built that bomb yet because of israel. You know how many iranian scientist israel has killed the increased sanctions all that has hindered iran from making a bomb.

    dropping israel would only signal to the world that america is weak and cannot be depended on and conflicts are not wars you ? idiot.

    YOU MIGHT AS well join isis you hate america and israel so much what the ? are you even doing here