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Originally Posted by abaya
For example, why can't we withdraw even a minor percentage of our support, at least to the point where Israel's military is not intimately woven with our own and they are forced to stand just a *little* bit on their own, without the extreme crutch of the U.S.? I just don't see why Israel deserves such 100% unconditional support from the U.S.; we don't have that kind of relationship with any other nation in the world, and we shouldn't.
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Given Israel's location, I think that them having an extreme crutch is warranted.
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Why not support Israel 75%, or hell, even 90%? Just as an experiment. To see if they can hold a bit of their own.
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You know as well as I do that they wouldn't be able to hold their own without full support from the United States. It's not as if Israel has an entire ocean seperating it from it's enemies; It's pretty much surrounded on all sides by those who wish to see it destroyed. If the United States withdrew any type of support, I'd guess that a few Arab nations would take advantage of the situation and attack Israel.
Besides, I'm not keen to see the same thing which happened to South Vietnam happen to Israel.
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On a different note, I'd like to see more responses to my question re: if Israel *truly* wants to destroy Hezbollah, why are they are not striking Syria and Iran directly?
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As it stands, not many Arab nations support Hezbollah (At least not openly), thus keeping the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. If Israel were attack Iran or Syria, that would probably draw quite a few Arab nations into a war against Israel, and that wouldn't be a smart idea on the part of Israel.
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Originally Posted by abaya
If the Israelis really had balls, though, they'd have gone straight fot the jugular. The fact that they are so stuck on Lebanon is beyond me... unless there is something else going on. I'm not convinced that this is *all* about Hezbollah.
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There's a difference between having balls and being incredibly stupid. Openly attacking Iran or even Syria would be incredibly stupid.