[citation][nom]fatality1515[/nom]megiv you must be some unsatisfied jew since you brought up "arabs".. It's a well known fact that Israel gets flooded with money from the US and this has been going on for many decades. I guess they need all this cash to build fancy houses on the Palestinian territory.. and yes... There is such a thing called the jewish lobby.. You can call the aid a "voucher" or whatever you want, but they're still receiving money they don't deserve and don't need![/citation]
menz if you're going to start labeling people, be prepared to go on the defensive camel, america gives just as much aid to egypt as they do isreal, so before you become all hell bent out of shape admiral general aladeen, they aren't the only ones we give aid to in the middle east, and despite all the palestinian terrorist hijacking and blowing up western planes we haven't cut out the aid to palestinians designated to them thru isreal.
you need to sit down and study history for the last 3 thousand years before you are even qualified to make a rational let alone informed decision on isreal, the last 100 years alone is enough to make you go nuts.
that whole region as been at in constant state of war with it's neighbors for over 3,000 years, and from what i see they are fighting over a desolate wasteland not even worth living in, and here they are killing each other over it for over 3,000 years. i do not wonder at why they have never evolved beyond the iron age on their own.
as far as i have seen isreal has more than earned that money as the test ground for all new american military weapons each and every year since 1947. the paltry 3 billion per year to test out how viable and functional our war machines and tactics has actually saved us trillions, and believe it or not, the isrealis have even improved our designs and are actually pretty decent innovators. they help intel develop their processors, and to see other computer tech innovations come out of isreal makes it even better.
even the british have to concede it was worth losing america over to gain electricity, lights, telephones, radio, television and computers.
fatality1515 i hear you in not wanting to be involved with this never ending mess in the middle east. i'm all for letting them wipe each other out the slow, painful, psychotic way, or all the rest of us just getting sick and tired of their bickering and turning the entire region into glass and uninhabitable for the next 10,000 or so years.
or is it better to try and bring peace, understanding, tolerance, and forgiveness and share what we have found and learned with them?
yes arms dealers from america, europe, russia, china and persia get in the way but a wise man once said
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson