From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:44bcc86c{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> The real problem is that Israel is historically unsustainable.  There are
> at
>> most a few tens of million practising Jews - there are 1,300,000,000
> Muslims
>> at a conservative estimate.  And they don't need nuclear weapons to change
>> your society - just box cutters.
>
> Numbers don't matter, economic size matters in this day and age.
>

Shrug. Maybe. Numbers beget economy.

Quick example of the differences which are occring. Egypt & Israel when
they were scrapping were about 4 to 1 (20 million to 5 million. Israel is
now 6 million but Egypt is now about 75 million.

& that's before you look at the growth in population in Iran or Pakistan
or Indonesia.

Adam

>> The USA is not as strong militarily or morally as it was - a lot has been
>> squandered by this administration.  In ten years, fifty years, a century,
>> sometime it will not be strong enough to defend Israel.  What happens when
>> ten Muslim powers have the bomb?  Twenty?
>
> This administration is gone come 2008.
>
> The bomb doesn't make any difference, once you have it you can't use it or
> you die. If anything it makes a country responsible.
>

So far.

Adam

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