tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539920.post2349688232915717071..comments2024-03-27T07:01:13.725+02:00Comments on The Muqata: Will the USA Abandon Israel?Jameel @ The Muqatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15890095633246557332noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539920.post-38117976017983939162011-02-01T22:22:38.345+02:002011-02-01T22:22:38.345+02:00Agreed.
I can't understand American Jews who ...Agreed.<br /><br />I can't understand American Jews who lambast Rand Paul for proposing to end US aid to Israel.<br /><br />The sooner it happens, the better off Israel will be.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539920.post-27766264490418579732011-02-01T20:56:50.321+02:002011-02-01T20:56:50.321+02:00The US Abandon Israel? Boy! May it come soon!
I ...The US Abandon Israel? Boy! May it come soon!<br /><br />I ache for the day when the US would refuse to give us Foreign Aid. I crave the day when the US would stop demanding stuff from Israel.<br /><br />I would love to see the day when they would stop using us for intelligence, advanced field weapons storage.<br /><br />I wait for the day when they stop selling the latest advanced weapons to us just so we can do their beta testing, and report back the bugs in the weapons that don't work so they can make more advanced weapons and sell them to us at an even greater price - this is what happened with the Patriot missile system during the Gulf War. We bought each missile for $1 million a shot and none of them worked. Now they have the new-improved model which they'll gladly sell us at maybe quadruple the previous price.<br /><br />Since all Israeli governments have been and continue to be gutless-wonders who crave the approval of the US Admin and will do nearly anything to please - like dogs dying to please their master - this is the reason that we Israelis are put through pointless attempts at negotiations with Abbas/Fatah that is still committed to our destruction.<br /><br />When will it dawn when we have no strong contacts with the US that we'll be uninhibited to develop, manufacture and market our own weapon's systems IN COMPETITION WITH THE US? Today the US prevents Israel from competing, in fact the US pressured Israel not to produce and market the Levi Fighter, offered to take our prototype off our hands (after all, what would Israel do with it?) and they used it to produce their latest fighter aircraft. And that our government gave them in the hopes to buy their "friendship".<br /><br />All this we give them happily and the USG repeatedly tries to maneuver us down the path of destruction in this dangerous game of surrendering to the PA/PLO/Fatah.<br /><br />Oh, please HaShem, allow the day when the US will cut ties from us and free us because it costs Israel more to have that "friend" than it would to go it alone! The truth is that Israeli government officials haven't the courage or brains to do it themselves.Rabeladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391107244478116852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539920.post-54148950647085188462011-02-01T16:01:06.646+02:002011-02-01T16:01:06.646+02:00Weaning Israel off US aid is not the same thing as...Weaning Israel off US aid is not the same thing as putting your eggs in one basket. In other words, were Israel to drop US aid what would it be getting in return that would mean this sacrifice gets Israel a second basket. What is your proposed alternative? Moreover, if Israel relied exclusively on the US when it had a cold peace with Egypt and did not need to worry about a serious conventional land war then it will need even more support as it retools its forces to face a united Middle East. Military expenditures are now 9% of Israeli GNP but that will likely rise now. If Israel gained from the aid two weeks ago, then how much more will it gain from the aid now?<br /><br />Israel does not now have European support, China and India need Arab oil more then whatever tiny Israel has, Russia has neither the power or inclination to back Israel and the South American countries have made their position clear these last few weeks. The US is Israel's only friend and, perhaps you can tell me how Israel can get a new patron without significantly retooling its foreign policy to the left ... at least as much as whatever the US asks of it.HAGTBGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13539920.post-19269592442378210822011-02-01T15:43:34.880+02:002011-02-01T15:43:34.880+02:00Then US may think is hasn't abandoned Egypt, b...Then US may think is hasn't abandoned Egypt, but if Mubarack gets out alive; he may well do more damage than wikileaks? <br /><br />The MB will overrun Egypt, Jordan and Yemen are next on the map. Tehran will be ecstatic that its plan worked and Obama will look like the fool everyone knows he is. American Foreign Policy will be dead for the next 50 years thanks to this buffoon.<br /><br />The only "friend" Israel may have left in the region is the Saudis. They will want to hang on to Mecca at all costs regardless of the price. <br /><br />On the upside, a muslim civil war between sunni & shiite might make them ignore the whole Israel problem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com