So you are trying to bribe them to make nice with Israel? Well, I suppose they do have a goog laugh while spending your money on new suiced-bombing supplies and the such. I can see why you give money to Israel - since they are your biggest ally in Middle-East after USA and USSR managed to trick Britons out of Suez and a counterweight to your less than tractable allies in Arabia. But giving money to people who have promised to kill you and your friends...
You know, feeling righteous is a pleasant experience, but personally I think the only way to install both civilized behaviour (like freedom of religion or right to be free to marry and divorce) and normal lawkeeping there would be to pay Israel to win and install occupation authority over the whole Palestine.
Heh, well, I suspect there is more than a small voice in American government that would agree with you, but if we were to go in that direction, we would risk alienating all those oil-rich Arab countries too much, which might then only raise other kinds of havoc.
Well, if you were to point out that after extermination of Hezbollah and other terroristic organizations they won't be bothered by fanatics begging money for holy wars and such.... Anyhow, a chill in relations will probably pass in 10-20 years at most. A conservation of present situation in Palestine will protract bloodletting and chaos indefinately.
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I can see why you give money to Israel - since they are your biggest ally in Middle-East after USA and USSR managed to trick Britons out of Suez and a counterweight to your less than tractable allies in Arabia. But giving money to people who have promised to kill you and your friends...
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this is why some Americans say it is time to stop spending this money.
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Anyhow, a chill in relations will probably pass in 10-20 years at most. A conservation of present situation in Palestine will protract bloodletting and chaos indefinately.