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Israel effectively created Hezzbollah when it occupied lebanon the first time, it has strengthened Hezzbollah with its recent over reaction when it targeted civilian infrastructure in an obvious aim to terrorize the civilian population. Look at what Israelk does in Gaza, is there any wonder there is suicide attacks. If you are going to be killed by the Israeli army lobbing in shells or as collateral damage in an Israeli extra-judicial assissination by air to ground missile, why not take a few Israelis with you.

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the relationship of the American empire and the Israeli state is a special one. It was not always so. Nor will it likely forever be so. Most American political elites supported the Arab states in the late 1940s and early 1950s owing to oil. In 1956 President Eisenhower ordered Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, which it had invaded and occupied, along with oil-hungry Britain and Nasser-hating France. Israel complied. The present U.S.-Israeli alliance did not emerge until the mid-i960s.. Soviet ties to Egypt and Syria pushed President Johnson closer to Israel. Meanwhile, Israel's fear of Arab threats to eliminate the Jewish state made it eager for U.S. support. The first U.S. offensive weapons systems sale to Israel-the A4 Skyhawk jet deal-was approved in 1965. When, in 1967, Egypt's Nasser closed the Strait of Tiran, the waterway that gave access to Israel's only port on the fled Sea, Israel launched its historic preemptive attack on Egypt and Syria-an attack that was approved by the CIA and the Pentagon during the visit of Meir Amit (Israel's chief of Mossad) on the eve of the action which led to the Six Days' War. The next fall the United States sold Phantom jets to Israel, making this weapon available for the first time to an ally outside of NATO, even before giving it to South Vietnamese forces who were fighting a war in which U.S. soldiers were dying daily. U.S. military sales to Israel were $140 million between 1968 and 1970. This jumped to $1.2 billion from 1971 to 1973. After the Israeli defeat of the Soviet client states of Egypt and Syria in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, U.S. military aid increased still further. In 1974 it totaled $2.57 billion. This massive shift to support for Israel took place not because U.S. officials were drawn to the just cause of the Israeli state but for cold war political and geostrategic reasons. Israel, a small and fragile state under siege, began to look like an important ally to the American empire because of U. S. dependency on foreign oil and fear of Soviet influence in Arab states.
Today Israel-a country of 6.5 million people-receives 33 percent of the entire foreign-aid budget of the American empire ($3 billion a year).

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Both Arab and Jewish extremists are today recklessly pushing Palestine into a futile war. While believing in the defense of legitimate claims, these extremists on each side play into each other's hands. In this reign of terror, the needs and desires of the common man in Palestine are ignored .... We believe that any constructive solution is possible only if it is based on the concern for the welfare and cooperation of both Jews and Arabs in Palestine.
They knew that a new democratic Jewish identity must be forged in the Diaspora that shatters all imperial mentalities and unleashes the prophetic energies of decent, justice-loving Jews and non-Jews.

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

Can someone please explain how a thread "freedom isn't free" about the war on terror (whatever that is) is turned around to Israel?

Intsead of disguising what you really wanted to talk about you should have been honest at the start and just asked people their views on Israel.

Regards

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Yeah, how did our oil get under their land? What's up with that?

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ORIGINAL: Kedicat

Read some real news and history. Are you being paid by someone to spout this? Governments are obligated to defend their people you say? So then the people and governments who's countries were given away to Israel are doing just that. Write them a letter of support. If the UN and some other countries decided to give all of north america back in full to the native peoples, would you happily move out?

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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave

I must say Mr Ken your photo looks like a patriotic Brit. who would be only too happy to liberate the US. back to our control.   lol

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

The Israeli war of independence effectively caused 750,000 refugees. The Balfour agreement wasn't implimented, the Zionist pre-empted any agreement with the local Arabs, who I admit, were not happy with the proposals.

However, my problem is not with Israel's existence but that the way it reacts, which has and does create the terrorists it fights, just like the West does as a whole. Israel effectively created Hezzbollah when it occupied lebanon the first time, it has strengthened Hezzbollah with its recent over reaction when it targeted civilian infrastructure in an obvious aim to terrorize the civilian population. Look at what Israel does in Gaza, is there any wonder there are suicide attacks? If you are going to be killed by the Israeli army lobbing in shells or as collateral damage in an Israeli extra-judicial assissination by air to ground missile, why not take a few Israelis with you?

You really need to stand back and look at the big picture. You will see while individual terrorist acts appear to be irrational, terrorism isn't irrational, it is plain to see why it exists.