very good point---It's our money-Isn't about time we took a consistent stand ? Perhaps our vacillation is a large part of the continuing bullshit.
Israel, much like so many issues facing Americans is a highly contentious issue.
If we abandon Israel to its fate, I expect to see either the first use of Atomic weapons since 1945, or the extermination of all the Jews of Israel, or possibly both.
If we continue to support Isreal, even when its doing things like continuing to build colonies in the midst of Palestinains, or keeping Palestinians in places where they are economically unable to support themselves, we can expect to see this ongoing civil war between two ideologically opposed peoples.
Not exactly great choices for us or the Isreali, or the Palestinians, are they?
I think that both some Isreali and some Palestinians have honestly tried to broker a modus vivendi, but the hotheaded enthocentric lunatics in BOTH groups make that basically impossible.
The solution is to marginalize the hotheads and reward the peacemakers.
Sadly I think we lack the skills to reward the peacemakers in Palestine because our intelligence community lacks the ability to infiltrate those people.
We need a truly fuctional CIA, folks.
One that actually can gather human INTEL, and which can help us find and support potential allies in the Moslem world.
The war in Isreali and Palestine is STILL a war for the hearts and minds of the people.
No military solutions will work.