For crying out loud. Can't we just get to the obvious point of foreign policy? When we give foreign aid, we are tied to whatever the receipient nation does. If Israel or any other country does things that taint the U.S., why do we continue to donate? Lets cut off ALL foreign aid. Then Israel can do whatever it deems proper. Sound cold? What is the alternative? Continued anger at the U.S.?

God forbid someone out there remains angry at the U.S. for how we spend our foreign aid money. We give to Israel, and it provokes anger. We give to Palestine - quite a bit in fact - and it provokes more anger. We act in what we believe to be our best interests. I pass no judgment for the purpose of this comment on whether aiding Israel or Palestine advances our interests. I only note that someone out there being angry at us is (a) not the end of the world, and (b) a certainty.

Puller, kindly grow a spine.

They would have agreed with you, Puller58:

"Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us."
Albert Einstein

"...If we had invested in the Arab problem one tenth of the energy, the passion, the ingenuity, the resourcefulness
which we developed in order to gain the support of Britain, France, the US and Weimar Germany, our destiny in the development of Israel may have been quite different... We were not ready for compromises; we did not make sufficient efforts to get, if not the full agreement of the Arabs, at least their acquiescence to a Jewish state, which I think would have been possible. That was the original sin."
Dr. Nahum Goldmann
President of the World Jewish Congress
writing in the New Outlook,
November-December 1974