Anaxagoras
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ORIGINAL: Owner59 Well, Anaxagoras... Bibi would like to get back to the prior arrangement where we gave them scads of money while letting them tell us what our ME policy was going to be. Mitt literally promised such an arrangement again should he be elected during the charm offensive . Obama is using his influence to push the Israelis to make peace.Something bush wasn`t sincere about and from what he said in the now infamous 47% video,something Mitt has promised he won`t pursue. This is the main bone of contention between the two leaders. Can you imagine a well funded but malignant group of bad faith actors, meddling and exacerbating the civil war in Northern Ireland...hoping to prolong it and game it for their own advantage? That`s what our republicans are, in regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Indeed you should be concerned about meddling in your own affairs but I don't think it is as one-sided as you think. For example, Bush forced Israel to accept Hamas standing for election back in 2005. He forced Israel to stop a very lucrative high technology deal with China, and also pressed them to stop the 2006 Lebanon war before Hizbullah were routed.
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