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Oh come on people. The isralies are well known for their creative use of torture.
That alones causes them to lose favor in my eyes.
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What do you think the Arabs did to the Israeli soldiers they captured - put them up in a hotel room and send up all the food, alcohol, and women they could handle?
Oh, and the simple fact that they have zero oil to sell me is another strike against them.
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If fuel prices are so important to you, buy something more economical and you'll get more for your money. If you'd rather keep using fuel the way you are now, then compensate by cutting costs somewhere else. Your monthly ISP fees would be a good place to start.
Who gives a rats ass about any of them? It is what they can *do* for us that matters. Israel doesn't do much for us.
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What do the Arabs do for us? Selling us oil doesn't count, because they're not doing that for [b]us[/b], they're doing it for themselves. If Israel hadn't agreed not to retaliate after Hussein started SCUDding Israeli cities during the Gulf War, the Coalition would have dissolved - as Hussein hoped it would - we might well have been fighting the entire Arab world. Getting Israel involved would have given them (the Arabs) a common cause, after all. In other words, Israel let its citizens be killed without striking back at the killer, just because we asked them to.
BTW, either one of you chuckleheads remember the USS Liberty
(Lets see the apologists come out for this one...)
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When you spy on someone - either ally or enemy - during wartime, you take a big chance. The Liberty was spying on the Israelis, and what they did was well within their rights. After all, spies ARE executed during wartime. Why should the Israelis have to accept our spying on them as something they have no control over, but when we capture one of THEIR spies it leads to national outrage.