From: Gene McAloon 

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:29:50 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>John Beamish wrote:
>
>> This quote was an interesting assessment:
>>
>> So long as the neo-cons remain in power, Washington is little more than a
>> suburb of Tel Aviv. And, in the Islamic world at least, an American
>> disassociation from any action by Israel would not be believed.  Israel and
>> America are now perceived as one country.
>>
>
>Yup. America is undoubtably a zionist entity.

Your bigotry is showing, not too surprising in a Brit even in this day and age.

American policy towards Israel has always been a mixture of supporting the
underdog and supporting an ally in a Middle East that at one time was
heavily anti-American and anti-Brit. All the more so in that some Arab
countries, newly freed of Brit imperialism, tended to ally with the
Soviets. For a time, Israel was the only really dependable ally we had in
that area, other than Turkey.

At present, the relationship under Bush is even closer, partly because the
Republican right, particularly Cheney, have close ties to the far-right
Likud and Bush must cater to the Christian right because they too support
Israel for biblical reasons. They, in fact, are now by far the most
influential supporters of Israel.

American Jews, meanwhile, being mostly liberal, are torn between disgust
with Likud and the natural affinity they feel for their co-religionist in
Israel. Even then it is not so much a feeling of religious solidarity (few
US Jews are as far to the right religiously as the Orthodox in Israel) but
rather a sort of ethnic solidarity reinforced by memories of the Holocaust.

Of course I wouldn't expect you to be aware of any of this. That would show
a degree of awareness on your part I have yet to see demonstrated on any
subject.

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