re: What has Israel ever done for America?

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They are the only nation in the region that carries the torch of American values

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One of the things I like about America is that anyone can be an American. You just need to believe in our most basic values. And that’s how we melded Germans, Englishmen and a host of peoples into what we are now.

Hell, one of the most important commanders in the continental army was a Polish noble.

Israel?

Israel is an entho-religious state where race and faith are a pass fail test. And where non Jews are second class citizens. That includes Christians, for the record. Christians are second class citizens in Israel. Israelis are a racist people, and while many Americans laugh when they hear the Israelis use such rhetoric to talk about Palestinians (Muslim or Christian) what they don’t understand is that Israelis feel the same way about Americans.

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Without Israel we would have no foot hold in the middle east. We would have to build a military base there instead that would cost us billions a year and be subjected to terror attacks. Look what the Iraqi war cost us.

Love them or hate them they are a necessity for us to keep the peace in the middle east. You can't put a price tag on that.

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Look at what the Iraq war cost us indeed.

Have you ever understood what it means to be a Reagan Republican versus a Bush-Bush fake?

Could you show us on the map what part of Israel we use for military basing?

Also, did we close our substantial military bases in the Gulf while I was sleeping?

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Love them or hate them they are a necessity for us to keep the peace in the middle east. You can't put a price tag on that.

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The peace? What peace?

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Could you show us on the map what part of Israel we use for military basing?

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no, he cannot

OK Rex. I’ll play along. You think Isreal is a POS and fricks the US.

Who should we partner with in the ME? Should we just totally leave the region?

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Should we just totally leave the region?

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Sure, why not?

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Who should we partner with in the ME? Should we just totally leave the region?

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If valuing democracy or shared values are why we're friends with Israel, which are the bs excuses given by the Israeli-first crowd, why in the hell are the Saudi's our other best friend? They have one of the most despotic regimes on earth and 15 of them killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11.

1- Shared intelligence on arseholes who like to fly planes into buildings.
2- In 1966, when defecting Iraqi pilot Munir Redfa landed in Israel flying a Soviet-built MiG-21 fighter jet, information on the plane was immediately shared with the United States.
3- During the Israeli–Egyptian War of Attrition, Israeli commandos captured a Soviet-built P-12 radar station in an operation code-named Rooster 53. Previously unknown information was subsequently shared with the US.
4- Buys $526,000,000 in US arms, #6 in world.
5- June 1984, and the United States constructed two War Reserve Stock facilities in Israel to stockpile military equipment. Although intended for American forces in the Middle East, the equipment can be transferred to Israeli use if necessary.
6- Israel carried out Operation Opera, an Israeli airstrike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Baghdad.
7- The United States urged Israel not to retaliate against Iraq for the attacks because it was believed that Iraq wanted to draw Israel into the conflict and force other coalition members, Egypt and Syria in particular, to quit the coalition and join Iraq in a war against Israel. Israel did not retaliate, and gained praise for its restraint.
8- In September 2008, The Guardian reported that the U.S. vetoed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities the previous May.
9- Source of critical weapons for Mujahideen and defeat of USSR in Afghanistan.
10- Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile Program, designed to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles is funded by both Israel and the United States. The Arrow has also provided the US with the research and experience necessary to develop additional weapons systems. So far, the development cost has been between $2.4 and $3.6 billion, with the United States picking up 50 percent of the final costs.
11- The Dimona Radar Facility is an American radar facility in the Negev desert of Israel, located near Dimona. The facility has two 400-foot radar towers designed to track ballistic missiles through space and provide ground-based missiles with the targeting data needed to intercept them. It can detect missiles up to 1,500 miles away. The facility is owned and operated by the US military, and provides only second-hand intelligence to Israel.
12- Israel makes up just three percent of the population of the Middle East, in 2011 Israel was the destination of 25 percent of all U.S. exports to the region, having recently eclipsed Saudi Arabia as the top market there for American products.

Was a dozen enough to drown out the crickets or do you need more?

looks like an administrator who can't handle the truth anchored the thread