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> nor the distrust many countries have of the Palestinians

I suppose Israel is so trustworthy that they deserve billions of dollars in war planes. Yet Palestinians are so untrustworthy that they don't deserve even a boat loaded with medicines and food.


> You can't erase decades of terrorism my friend.

Neither can we erase decades of oppression, imprisonment, bulldozing people's homes, expelling people from their own country, etc.

The point is made by you. Our governments trust and support Israel implicitly. Yet they deplore Palestinians and view them with distrust. So we use that distrust to justify unfair foreign policies and to justify giving Israel aid while Palestinians live in misery.

We keep making excuses for Israel. "It is the threat from Hamas and Hezbollah and Al Qaida. It is Iran and the moslems bent on destroying Israel." Now that we have made an excuse, let's justify letting Israel have WMDs, war planes, tanks, etc. After all, a Palestinian with a bomb strapped to his chest is much more deadly than 30 F15s!

In the end, our governments are hypocrites. Why can't they just say the simple truth. "We support Israel because of its strategic military position in the Middle East."