Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
They were depending on someone else's benevolence to ensure their safety - first France and then the US, and they smartly parlayed fundamentalist Christian sentiments and the Holocaust into a powerful lobby to keep the money and technology flowing from the latter. Israel is, by far, the largest recipient of US foreign aid. The Zionist State would not resemble its current, modern form without American patronage, and probably would not exist.
How much of it is this and how much of it is realpolitik? I think you are seeing ghosts.


I can agree that Isreal often skirts its responsbility in what should be a partnership. I can agree that I am concerned in the direction in which Isreal is heading.

I am not ready, however, to head in the oppisite direction with reckless absandon based on inflamitory rhetoric