The US cuts off ties with Israel

Originally posted by melancholia:
I only skimmed through this thread, and I'm sorry if I'm repeating something posted...

but... I really believe that the US's involvment in Israel is directly related to Sadam... Palastine recives money from Sadam, simply because they are Muslim... and in the Middle East in general, Muslims stick together and Jews stick together...and they just go back and forth with their 10,000 year old feud.

If we back Israel, While Sadam backs Palestine... then were are indirectly fighting a war with him. The US governemnt puts on a facade that we're out to get peace... while in reality, what the US is doing, is trying to "flex our muscles" to Sadam. (think Cold war)

I think that the US is waiting for the situation in Israel to get worse, so we have an excuse to bomb the fuck out of Sadam, and take him out of power too...

It seems to me that the whole thing from a US perspective is more about past grudges, and oil. It all boils down to the oil...

*shrug*

we've been involved in the middle east far before Sadaam reared his ugly head, we are the ones that stuck his ass in power, to counter another enemy of ours, IRAN

The US seems to try to solve problems by giving support to another regional leader. Eventually the leader turns on us. (we powered the taliban, because they were slapping the russians, we powered the Iraqi's, because the Iraqi's were slapping IRAN. etc etc etc I think you get the point.

-funny how the israelis have turned out just like the Nazis.

They have tanks, guns and planes.
The Palestinians dont.

Originally posted by dancl:
-funny how the israelis have turned out just like the Nazis.

They have tanks, guns and planes.
The Palestinians dont.

ALright that is just stupid, if you need me to explain why it was stupid, please let me know.

Originally posted by ModernCheeze:


Barak's offer was a promising begginning, not the be all to end all.

Originally posted by tweedyburd:


The point is that the offereing was a start, something to go on, and wasn't supposed to be the end-all-be-all conflict solver. If Arafat were any sort of leader that was looking for real results he would've made the decision to hear the proposals out and consider them to at least get the general sentiment to lean in that direction, rather than wipe his ass with it and turn away back to the regular routine of violence.