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To: general_re
we should stop supporting Israel when it is no longer in America's interests to support Israel.

Should we murder our neighbors kid when it is in our interest too? If you interests are bigger than your morality, you are in a very dangerous place.

12 posted on 03/28/2004 11:59:26 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel
Neighbor kids can be really annoying sometimes, too.
13 posted on 03/29/2004 12:09:24 AM PST by cinnathepoet (Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral)
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To: American in Israel
Should we murder our neighbors kid when it is in our interest too?

That's a ridiculous analogy, and you should be ashamed of yourself for even bringing it up. Please try to think of something a bit less hyperbolic in the future.

If you interests are bigger than your morality, you are in a very dangerous place.

Unless you are prepared to argue that we are able to enforce our morality in all places and at all times, we will necessarily have to pick and choose among those we will support. I assign no special criteria to Israel in that regard - when it is in the American interest to support Israel, we should support Israel, and when it is not, we should not. I assume that the Israelis regard their own allies in this fashion as well - if they do not, they would be wise to start.

We elect a government here in America with the goal of advancing American interests, not Israeli interests - that is what the Israeli government is for. When and where advancing Israeli interests proves felicitous for advancing American interests, the American government should advance the interests of the American people by advancing the interests of the Israeli people, and where it does not advance American interests, the United States should not advance Israeli interests. I also assume that Israelis regard their own state interests in a similar fashion here as well - if they do not, they would be wise to start.

14 posted on 03/29/2004 4:24:56 AM PST by general_re (The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical... - Nikos Kazantzakis)
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To: American in Israel
Off topic, but I am glad to see you are still ok.
25 posted on 03/29/2004 7:33:45 AM PST by Bahbah
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