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It is silly to think that US policy toward Israel is driven by nothing else but the "Amen corner". There is logic in Israeli retaliatory raids into the PA: the same logic by which we bomb the Taliban. There is logic in denying the Palestinians a sovereign state: if they can't hold the terrorist attacks for one month, nothing better should be expected of a Palestinian state.

The only sensible American policy toward Israel would be to encourage them to annex the West Bank and Gaza, so that they could police it, drastically reduce aid to the region, and signal to the Middle Eastern states that whatever results would be achieved by war, if they choose to go to war, will be allowed by the United States to stand, -- neither Jews or Arabs will be shielded from the consequences of their political decisions by a truce forced from the outside.