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The US may criticize the Israeli govt from time to time, but despite even the harshest of warnings from Cheney, Powell, etc., Israel remains the #1 importer of US weapons in the world. If the US (and the UN) were serious about the violence, then there would be an arms boycott on the region, which is something that should have happened a long time ago. Mind you, that's an arms boycott for both sides...I just have a bad feeling about how this is all going to turn out.
Look at the Iran/Iraq war of the 80's: everybody (US, UK, France, Russia, China, etc.) was selling arms to BOTH sides in that one, and chemical weapons were most definitely used as well. (By Iraq against Iran I think.) I'm not saying it will get to that point, but let's face it, war is BIG business, and the conflict now has all the trappings of a war.
Also, I'm sure the US would like to see an independent Palestine that could be controlled as a further foothold in the region, but how many Palestinians would go for that? Or Israelis for that matter? And isn't the backing of the US for a Palestinian state a continuance of the old British policy in the region of "divide and conquer"? (As in an attempt to derail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism amongst Palestinians and maybe also to help keep the Israelis in check.)Sometimes it seems as though the world really is giant game of "Risk". |
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