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Israel is not our friend. A friend does not accept hard-earned American tax dollars, buy U.S. weapons, make its own weapons of mass destruction and wage inhumane genocide on its neighbors. This is not the behaviour of a friend. Israel is taking advantage of our pity to act as we have in attacking a surrounded and imprisoned people (remember preinvasion Iraq) who are starving due to our neglect and the zionists' seige of Gaza.
In addition, you can forget any leadership from Obama (not a peep to date) on this subject as he has already sold out to AIPAC. "President-elect Obama claims to be a pragmatist", as you say, but he has already passed up his chance to prove it. "He has the opportunity to change course, to start pursuing Mideast policies that work" but he won't. He won't "make it clear to Israel that the blank check is expired, the amen corner disbanded" because that would lose him support from the AIPAC lobby.
The result will most certainly be another attack on our homeland with the obligatory death and destruction because... Israel rules.
