Israel Is Now America's Closest Ally....

Via the Wall Street Journal......

President George W. Bush will soon make his second visit to Israel in less than six months, this time to celebrate the country's 60th anniversary. The candidates for the presidency, Republican and Democratic alike, have all traveled to Israel and affirmed their commitment to its security. So have hundreds of congressmen.

American engineers, meanwhile, are collaborating with their Israeli counterparts in developing advanced defense systems. American soldiers are learning antiterrorist techniques from the Israeli army.

Israel is the only Middle Eastern country where the American flag is rarely (if ever) burned in protest – indeed, some Israelis fly that flag on their own independence day. And avenues in major American cities are named for Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir. Arguably, there is no alliance in the world today more durable and multifaceted than that between the United States and Israel.

.....How does the alliance surmount these challenges?

One reason, certainly, is values – the respect for civic rights and the rule of law that is shared by the world's most powerful republic and the Middle East's only stable democracy. There is also Israel's determination to fight terror, and its willingness to share its antiterror expertise. Most fundamentally, though, is the amity between the two countries' peoples. The admiration which the U.S. inspires among Israelis is overwhelmingly reciprocated by Americans, more than 70% of whom, according to recent polls, favor robust ties with the Jewish state.

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Comments

[Elric66]

Well, who else would you really consider an ally?

[ZIP]

Good question, the UK, but not on the same level as Israel....

[Elric66]

UK and Australia come close but the UK will be Islamic soon enough so you can write them off unless the people take the UK back.

[ZIP]

I forgot about Australia, they were better during Howard's term that's for sure.

Poland and Canada also come to mind. (Poland being the better of the two)

[Elric66]

Poland is a great ally but arent they part of the EUSSR?

[Daddy-O]

May God bless and protect Israel.

[atheling]

It's true. We shouldn't trust anyone else now. The UK is a goner as far as any alliance goes - they've become Euroweenies, which sucks. (I still have hopes that the British people will rise up and overthrow their traitorous government and reject political correctness).

I don't trust any EU countries anymore. They will sell their grandmothers for "peace".

[ZIP]

Atheling: "I don't trust any EU countries anymore"

Devout Catholic Poland is the exception in my opinion.....

[ISLAMSFORLOSERS]

Some ally the US is to Israel though-always putting the strong arm on those poor guys to give the palestinians this and that. And what ALWAYS happens in the end? Israel gets screwed.

I do agree on not trusting the EU too much. It's much too fickle.

[Elric66]

Good reason not to trust the EUSSR/Eurabia

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/05/birth-of-eurabian-empire.html#readfurther

[atheling]

Zip:

Poland will not be "devout Catholic" for long if they are part of the EU. They've already been told to decriminalize abortion (at all stages), to become more "tolerant" (code word for "accepting") of homosexual marriage, etc...

So long as Poland or any other country, for that matter, remains in the EU, they will lose their national identity and spirit in sacrifice to the EUtopian vision of the EUSSR.

[Wallace Edward Brand]

Israel needs all the help it can get.
1. It is in a bad neighborhood.
2. It's people are badly divided politically.
3. Help from the US comes with so many restrictions that in the quid pro quo, the quid may end up being less valuable than quo.

I was a young boy during Israel's War of Independence in Junior High School. My Irish shop teacher, coming back from an alcoholic luncheon, announced to our class that Israel would never survive the onslaught of the surrounding Arab states. I remember catching hell for disagreeing with him.

Israel's survival for 60 years has been a miracle. Let's hope the miracle continues but the odds are not that good.