Israel has NO CHOICE, and the Israeli public will not allow for a nuclear Iran...

The special relationship with the US looks more and more like it's history. After all, the Arabs and the Iranians have the oil, and there's nothing Israel can do to help the US out of Iraq. Allies of superpowers are allies as long as they're useful. When they become a liability, they are discarded like a used piece of toilet paper.

Don't fool yourself. The Israeli public knows that we're small and they're big, they're right and we're wrong, and there's nothing we can do about it!
Every family here has an evacuation plan, and so do I. I know where my trench is, but I'll certainly make sure to get my kids on a plane in time.

The special relationship with the US looks more and more like it's history. After all, the Arabs and the Iranians have the oil, and there's nothing Israel can do to help the US out of Iraq. Allies of superpowers are allies as long as they're useful. When they become a liability, they are discarded like a used piece of toilet paper.

Given the total number as well as population density of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel, it is a good policy for Israel to develop replacement and renewable energy source (possibly even better water desalination process), so that, when oil is running out, Israel will become the new gold mine to the US, hence reverse the US foreign policy in Israel's favor.

The special relationship with the US looks more and more like it's history. After all, the Arabs and the Iranians have the oil, and there's nothing Israel can do to help the US out of Iraq. Allies of superpowers are allies as long as they're useful. When they become a liability, they are discarded like a used piece of toilet paper.<Shirrush

Maybe you don't need our assistance after all. Like the young adult who finally is ready to be out on his own you are making sounds like its time for you to run all of your own risks in the big bad world. The Cold War is over and you don't need US anymore. Our assistance comes with too many strings and is now interfering with your future plans. Very well then....

 

I sincerely wish you all the best and God's speed with your adventure.

 

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Rocky

I get the impression that there are some citizens of the USA posting on this site who are sitting fat dumb and happy under the stars and bars thinking its' no skin of their nose if the Iranians point nuclear tipped missiles at Tel-Aviv.

Well here is a thought. The Iranians probably won't do that. Missiles have a return address, and the retaliation you risk with a nuclear strike is not worth thinking about.  What the Iranians MIGHT do is distribute boxes full of enriched Uranium 235 among Isalmic fanatic folk even loonier than themselves, who will then export these boxes labeled "spare parts for tractors" to local terrorists who will then explode them in shopping malls in New-York/San-Diego/Seattle/Tel-Aviv/London etc spraying clouds of radioactive dust over a wide and densely populated area. And you will never know where it came from. Look up "radiation sickness".  I didn't invent that theory. It is a threat scenario that the CIA take seriously. And if it ever does happen, you will know who provided the Uranium, even if you don't know who blew it in your face. I think the USA have to look out for themselves, too.

I didn't mean to insult any freedom loving American citizen, of course. But never mind the evidence, there is evidence enough that the world is full of Islamic fanatics who are willing to do great harm to the USA - I don't need to remind you of examples - are you going to risk remaining defenceless against them just because you haven't got enough evidence? The USA didn't have a lot of evidence that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbour or that Al-Quaida were going to attack New-York, are you going to fall for it again?  If you hang around too long waiting for evedence you might get it delivered by the owner and you wont like it.

The special relationship with the US looks more and more like it's history. After all, the Arabs and the Iranians have the oil, and there's nothing Israel can do to help the US out of Iraq. Allies of superpowers are allies as long as they're useful. When they become a liability, they are discarded like a used piece of toilet paper.