Israeli lobby

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>On Mon, Mar 3 2003, Chris Kromm wrote:
>
> > One doesn't have to search too hard to find out why the U.S. supports
> > Israel. Senator Jesse Helms, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman from
> > 1995 to 2001, put it succinctly in the Middle East Quarterly in 1995:
> > "Israel is at least the equivalent of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the
> > Middle East. Without Israel promoting its and America's common
> > interests, we would be badly off indeed."
>
>The only problem wiht that idea is that that isn't true.  Remember Gulf
>War I?  Remember what a big help Israel was? ... It's remarkable how many 
>people repeat that Helms idea as if it were true,
>though.
>
>Michael

In a certain sense, Helms' description is true.  I remember once hearing 
aircraft carriers described as "billion-dollar targets" -- meaning that a 
disproportionate amount of resources must be invested in defending the damn 
things.  Same thing could be said of Israel.

Carl

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