Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

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On Wednesday, 5 September, 2007 George Friedman of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. released a paper which debunks the myths of Harvard professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt regarding the activities and “manipulations (sic)” of the “Israel Lobby.”

This blog has excerpted only the summation of Friedman’s paper.

Contrary to Mearsheimer and Walt’s assertions that successive adminstration’s having been manipulated “The Israel Lobby”, Friedman’s paper on the history of US/Israel relations shows conclusively that the United States dogmatically pursues it’s own interests and extends support and cooperation to another country ONLY when that country’s interests are deemed amenable by a US administration, the state department, etc. to the perceived interests of the U.S. Thus we see, for example, perennial US support for such as Saudi Arabia, primarily based on Saudi oil leverage and America’s gas needs and mobility. read more

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Golani Troops Find Four Rocket Launchers in Gaza, Ready to Go

Related report; IDF Strikes Four Kassam Launchers in Gaza Strip

IDF Operates in Shechem, Destroys Weapons Lab

Three Soldiers Wounded in Shechem

27 Palestinians Arrested Near Ramallah for Involvement in Stone-Throwing

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For more blog posts on the Israeli government’s indifference to Sderot’s children, click here.

Analysis: ‘Waiting for Babies to Die is No Strategy’, by Amir Mizroch (Jerusalem Post)

“Although it can never hurt to fortify classrooms and to create readily accessible bomb shelters, the real solution to the problems of rocket attacks on Sderot and the western Negev… must be a ‘war to the end’ on the terror leadership and infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. “ read more

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For more on two of the four heroes receiving commendations posthumously, click here. MB

Our World: Of Men and Mice, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post) read more

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When will Israelis get the picture; that taking down checkpoints, rather than being seen as a kindness, as “confidence-building” and as an act of peace, is seen by the Islamics in the same vein as Olmert’s plan to release hundreds more terrorists from prison before Ramadan, as further proof of weakness, an act to be laughed at disdainfully? MB

Related report: Defense Min. Sitting on Plan to Lift West Bank Roadblocks for a Year (IMRA) read more

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