You illiterate anti-semite. I just gave you the quote and link from the Congressional Research Service entitled; US Foreign Aid to Israel

For many years, U.S. economic aid helped subsidize a lackluster Israeli economy, though since the rapid expansion of Israel’s hi-tech sector in the 1990s (sparked partially by U.S.-Israeli scientific cooperation)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

It seems you're on a mission to prove you actually don't know anything about Israel, and that all of your antagonism towards anyone who has even the mildest critique of the country is based entirely on a self-contained and data-immune belief system. Didn't it strike you as odd that even Jonathanintelaviv didn't want anything to do with you?

I remember reading a few years ago, an interview with Netanyahu where he bragged about Israel's silicon valley. He was quite plainly pleased with himself that their incubators are funded via American aid and that because of that, they were ready to surpass the US in profatibility. I doubt I'll ever find that article again; if anyone knows anything about it, please let me know...

Here's a reference to the US's help jump-starting Israel's economy:

For many years, U.S. economic aid helped subsidize a lackluster Israeli

economy, though since the rapid expansion of Israel’s hi-tech sector in the 1990s (sparked partially by U.S.-Israeli scientific cooperation)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

Just imagine if the US had spent that money on American companies from the bubble bust till now. 2 billion or so a year in straight up aid to any state or region. Your tax dollars at work America.

I think we can agree that Pakistan having nuclear weapons is scary as hell. This is not me "crapping my pants," this is the fear of a government with a highly destabilized structure running the risk of an accidental fire.

If we agreed, you'd be showing up here everyday complaining about how we gave billions of dollars since 2000 to Pakistan to beef up its nuclear arsenal, rather than worrying whether Iran has nuclear weapons down the line a few years. The fact that you admit that you are frightened about Pakistan, but make Iran the focus of your shrieking pant-crapping ejaculations shows that there is nothing to be gained by listening to you. You are a worthless commenter, without the sense to moderate and prioritize your own underwear-streaking paranoia.

As for this:

I don't understand what rubric you're using. I'm not even sure our country won't use nuclear weapons in the future--we certainly have enough of them, and have been trying for years to get a tactical nuke on line. I don't see how you can be so cavalier about any war-like nation not using every weapon in its arsenal when the moment comes. It sounds like you need to join a nuclear disarmament group, rather than cheerlead one nuclear powered team over another.

Countries like Israel and Pakistan are in danger of drowining in fundamentalism, and they already have nuclear weapons. If the concern is so great over Iran, it must be doubly so for those countries. Israeli soldiers had to be relieved of duty yesterday, because they wouldn't obey orders to drive out illegal settlements [illegal by Israel's own legal structure]. Pakistan's military practically couped the government a few years ago. Really, if you must crap your pants regularly, at least prioritize.

Why don't we let Israel worry about whatever it wants, on its own dime. I have no problem with that. Time to get off the teat if they want to act big and tough like the adult nations.

Is it a problem anyone else has experienced? As for Spoincey, I actually regret giving him the time of day, so it all worked out in the end.

I'm sure those very same doctors were terrible concerned with the US POWs that died during the Death March of Bataan.

I recently worked on a documentary [in a very small role] about atomic survivors. There's a really amazing interview with a Japanese doctor, who talks about the US censorship laws at the time, which did not allow doctors to publish their findings of radiation related illnesses and injuries or share them publicly.

In a time when people didn't really realize what nuclear weapons could do, Japan's medical establishment was not allowed to share information that could have saved the lives of civilians. Each doctor was left alone, treating thousands with absolutely no idea what was wrong with them or why they were sickening and dying. It really turned my stomach. And the fact that Americans are still unaware of such things today, in my mind, feeds the mythologies of our beneficent war machine.

Being an anti-semite is the most evil thing in the world. A country with an anti-semitic leader is guilty of genocide; that country should be bombed. They shouldn't be allowed to have weapons of any kind, because, as anti-semites, they participated in the holocaust. Because, obviously, its not actions that matter, but words. If it were actions, our own illegal wars would prompt the international community to bomb us. And obviously, that would be wrong.

Well, thank you for asking. Winding down my first semester at Berkeley and doing pretty well. Though it has taken the joy out of reading. Being the only forty year old junior in classes full of 20 year olds is a bit odd, but I'm finally getting used to it. Most professors don't know what to do with me either. Do you have any old-folk students in any of your ethnics classes?

Well, I find the Jihadist term to be of little use in describing Islamic movements. However, how would you classify Hezbollah, Hamas and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood? All formerly so-called Jihadists [again I don't find the term useful] or who still continue to use violence in seperate arms.

In Lebanon and Palestine and Egypt, these organizations have been remarkably effective in increasing Democratic participation. See below

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/02/AR2006020202368.html

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer240/shehata_stacher.html

leading me to infer perhaps you've not studied or read much of anything on the subject. Instead you choose to call others who have, ignorant.

That's funny, because I inferred your ignorance from what you've written, not what you claim about yourself.