Anti-Israel Lobby

This is in response to the article written by Mr. Jeff Robbins and entitled Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Israel Lobby published on 7 September 2007 in the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118912590978320145.html?mod=rss_opinion_main.

When will the people of this nation really understand what side of the bread is buttered when it comes to Middle East. I would submit this for your consideration: What nation has the closest thing to a fully functioning democracy in the Middle East? What nation in the Middle East has the greatest press and civil liberty freedoms? What nation has done what the US has asked more times than not, including exercising great restraint of its armed forced during the 1991 Gulf War. The answer to all these questions is Israel.

Israel is the best friend the US has in that region, but too many elitist pundits and policy wonks wish to continue to try and placate regimes that harbor terrorists, promote extremism and keep their populations under tight control. Maybe many people have forgotten but I haven’t forgotten the fact that the majority of the September 11 terrorists were of Saudi Arabian birth. In addition, too man US defense and industrial firms find they can get a bigger market for their wares in the Arab world than in Israel. That’s not the tune they piped a few years ago when the old Soviet Union supplied the Arab nations with all their weapons and the US supplied Israel.

The US has got to break away from dependence on a resource (oil) that is controlled by nations that wants the American people to think they are our friends but are simply looking out for their own interests and policy ends, which, in my opinion, includes the destruction of the state of Israel. Once we as a nation do that, then our relationship with the Arab world can take on a different hue in that we can speak truth to their power and not have to worry about the consequences in terms of their flow of oil to the US.