By that logic, the aid given to Israel should be counted as aid for Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We're paying them to refrain from employing their military superiority at the expense of our other clients.

How would this count, in your opinion?

Also the reason that Palestine does not have a seat on the UN boils down to the US Security Council veto. What is that in aid of?

http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle2000.htm

I believe the vast majority of Iranians are far too sane to ever conceive of such an act. Many of their religious leaders even condemn the idea of nuclear weapons outright. Problem is

1) As we all saw recently, Ahmadinejad doesn't seem to speak for most Iranians. If he does, we'll never really be able to tell, because democratically elected leaders don't get elected before the vote's been counted, and they don't sustain a uniform ~60% support rate all across their nations including areas dominated by ethnicities that hate their guts.

2) Ahmadinejad apparently belongs to a sect of Shiite islam which claims the coming of the 12th Imam can be sped up by triggering a global apocalypse. Nukes + Man who desires apocalypse = Look the frack out

Uncle Sam does it there and he does not even live in the neighborhood. See Iran's neighbors. Uncle Israel has also recently moved into Irans >6000 year old neighborhood and seems to think a settler colonial enterprise based on mythology is real.

Between these delusional fools armed to the teeth, who wouldn't want to keep themselves on par?

The blind US support for Israel is hurting the world peace . Israel was founded on terror tactics and it continued this practice until 2009 .
Also the US is not a peaceful nation and is looking for any pretext to invade weaker nations to steal their resources and put military bases there .
Two nuts being so close due to the strong Jewish lobby in the US is a prescription for a disaster after another in the region and elsewhere .

Wait.
You would grant Israel, a nation that consistently causes the US to be viewed in hostile terms in the middle east, an exemption from Tarrifs.

But you would not grant Australia, A nation that has sided with you in nearly every U.N. resolution, and participated in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq one and two, Afghanistan, exemption from agricultural tarrifs ?

Huh. Figures, fighting with you counts for nothing, but having a cozy relationship with your defense industry does.

America will always be a laughing matter until they cut ties with Israel and start working on peace instead of wars .

Gideon Levy on the Israel-US "special relationship"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html

Uncle Sam is toeing the *oggers line

Did this even make the US media?

Congressman Baird had some things to say yesterday, which obviously fell on deaf ears:

Too bad no one in Congress gives a shit about the American people. Well, except for 36 people that is. We need a list of names of the real Americans here. How to find out who voted against this resolution?

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll838.xml

Sure.

Did the fact that Congressional Resolutions carry no legal weight make it to where ever you are? Because that's the reason nobody pays much attention to them.

Same as always.

Thanks. Its good to know it was more than just 36.

Guess they failed the "imposed political litmus test ".

Or doesn't abstention count?

An abstention is less of a sucking up to the Israel lobby than a yes vote is and may get those congress people in trouble with the Israel lobby.

Does anyone else find it weird that with so many pressing issues in American society the government is busy passing [at full speed] resolutions on the Gaza war, Iran and Goldstone?

Do any resolutions of importance to Americans ever warrant such speedy action?

No. I do find it weird. I'm caught between not caring, myself, and wondering why the USA doesn't just hold Israel to a single-state rule coupled with an anti-apartheid regulation on all relations with Israel.

~String

I think that makes a lot of sense, except both sides will likely not go for it for their own reasons. But Israel should be held accountable as they are the big power in the region.

The current fragemenation of government allows Israel to blame rather than fix. And we need more solutions in the area and less finger pointing.

Now just why should Israel be held to a higher standard than the Palestinians?

Remember they would have a state if they and the Arabs hadn't conducted a war they didn't win.

Probably because as I said, they/Israel are the big guns in the region. They are the ones who receive most of the aid we give the region. Probably because it is in the interests of peace for both sides. Only the extremists win by continuing the current policies in the region.

Again why Israel, the Palestinians and Arabs have had multiple chances to make peace and always engage in Hudna, isn't it time to hold them fully accountable for the constant attacks and warfare?

Like I have said, if the Palestinians hadn't started a fight they couldn't win, and then invited their Arab brothers to come to the rescue, and they screwed the job, and lost, shouldn't peace have been made, which would have allowed the implementation of U.N.181 and the establishment of a Palestinian State on the west bank of the Jordan, even though there was a Palestinian State already on the east bank?