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Because not withstanding what some people may believe it has nothing to do with US financial aid. Aid works for both countries. Non-military aid is already going to end soon by agreement. Military aid- which must be spent in the US- aids American defense contractors.

Also American aid to Israel is a tiny part of its overall budget.

What concerns Israel is that the US may pull political support. For example the UN votes for an economic boycott of Israel and the US does not veto the resolution. That could be devastating to the Israeli economy.

We give lots and lots of cash to *all* of the countries involved.

Why is Israel the only one expected to march to our orders?

We give billions to Egypt to keep them docile vis-a-vis Israel; we started to fund the Palestinians hoping to get the same result. In other words, if we were not trying to do Israel's dirty work in the first place, we would not also be giving money to the Arabs, in addition to the billions we are already giving Israel. In reality, the money we give the Arabs is also money for Israel - because it is intended to buy off Israel's enemies. It's not working at the moment with the Palestinians, because of Islamic extremists who want no deal with Israel, but then again the Israelis helped create the Islamicists in the first place as a counter to Arafat's authory....and Sharon knew quite well that a side "benefit" of letting the Islamicists loose was going to be a scuttling of any plan to buy off Arafat with Israeli land and American money, the same way we bought off Egypt (with the Sinai and billions in US aid).

No matter who we give the money to, however, it serves the same end: serving Israeli interests. If we just minded our own business, however, and let the two sides beat each other senseless, they would eventually be forced to some kind of peace, if only out of shear exhaustion - and we would not have to pay billions for the priveledge of being hated by both sides for our "services". Nor would we be opening ourselves up to suicide attack by the Islamacists, or to more political manipulation by the Zionists and their American neo-con lackeys.

But then, the Constitution, and the constitutionalist foreign policy advocated by George Washington, is effectively dead. The USA is nothing but a pawn and money-bag man to the Zionists. We have effectively ceded our foreign policy initiative to the Pod-people (Podhoretz & Co.), and to the yahoos on this forum who bay for blood behind the safety of their monitor and keyboard.