Dear Israel,

1) Israel is an occupying power and dominates the Palestinians militarily and economically. This gives them the ability, and the responsibility to move toward peace.

They are choosing not to move toward peace.

2) Israel depends on the US militarily, politically and to a large extent economically. The US is also paying a price for its unbending support of Israel. This means that the US has a right to tell Israel to behave itself.

3) Israel has to make a choice on whether it is going to either pursue a fair two state solution, a one state solution where the Palestinians get an equal vote in a democracy, or whether it is going to complete ethnic cleansing.

5) Israel is committing acts that drive it away from peace, including the continued building of settlements in occupied territory. This is not only against international law, it is also against US interests. They are not being a good ally.

6) Israel has no excuse for the bad things it is doing. Israel blames all of its misdeeds on actions of the Palestinians.

7) Israel is being politically stupid. Up until now, Israel has received deep, unquestioning, bipartisan support. Now they are swinging to the right, and they are jumping in to bed with the Republican party. This means instead of receiving near 100% support from US policy makers, they will be receiving 50% (often hotly contested).

7) I don't understand how anyone who claims to be Christian and who has read the gospels can support an occupying force. Jesus lived under an occupation and was ultimately executed by an occupying force.

Israel has an obligation to the United States to move toward peace.

We support them economically, militarily and politically... at a significant cost to us as a country and as taxpayers.

Israel's behavior continues to be a thorn in the side of the US, it hurts our foreign policy initiatives in the Middle East and elsewhere and puts us in greater risk.

Israel continues to screw the US by moving away from peace.

Worse, their actions put us in lower esteem with the rest of the world. It is as if you were besties with an asshole who keeps hurting people.....eventually people come to the point that they think less of you for having such a pal.

The US also has an obligation to Israel....

Israel has defied the past six administrations (at least), both Republican and Democratic, while taking for granted our unflinching support. There is a limit to our patience with Israel.

There is a reason that US public support for Israel is waning.

Netanyahu made a calculated political move to manipulate US politics for his own domestic political gain.

In doing so, he damaged the relationship of Israel with the US by making support for Israel (which used to be bipartisan) into a Republican wedge issue. He is moving our Israel policy into the realm of gay marriage and abortion.

The United States is a sovereign nation, we don't have a limitless obligation to Israel or to any other foreign country or government.

Do you accept that people can be critical of Israel without being anti-semitic?

Do you accept that people can be critical of Israel without being anti-semitic? Do you accept that people can be critical of Feminism without being misogynistic?

Right, like Syria.

InfraBlue wrote:

Right, like Syria.

Assad was hardly defending anything when he brutally massacred innocent protesters.

The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria is defending its regime there, much like the Zionists are defending their regime in Israel.

In regard to the demonstrations, demonstrators destroyed government buildings in Dera'a right at the begining of the protests in mid-March 2011.

The Zionist regime in Israel has also responded with lethal violence against similar Palestinian demonstrations.

This hardly makes them murdering thugs.

I don't know where you developed this blind hatred, Oralloy,

Ive read where some people think its Israel's equivalent of the CIA launching rockets when they think its time to move some of the Palistinian