Mmmmmm.....I would say the Euroes will go for the $.

We'll ask 25,000 EU workers to lose their jobs so that the neurotic Israeli's can feel secure and be better able to dominatea the Mid East. No one's buying your crap, Israel.

Actually Genious, everyone is buying Israel's "crap." 6 million Israeli Jews: Tablets, Drops, Lotions, etc., made by Abic or Teva. Most of Windows operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel Both the Pentium 4 microprocessor and the Centrium processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 in Israel Microsoft and Cisco built their only R.& D facilities outside the US in Israel [What? Not in Bahrain???] Cell phone technology was also developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its biggest development center in Israel. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world. [And not in Koran memorization ala Saudi unis] Israel produces more scientific papers per capita - 109 per 10,000 - than any other nation. Israel has the highest number of start-up companies per rata. In absolute terms, the highest number, except the US. Israel is ranked 2 in the world for venture capital funds, behind the USA. Israel has more museums per capita. Israel has the second highest publication of new books per capita. Relative to population, Israel is the largest immigrant absorbing nation on earth. Believe it or not, Israel is the only country in the world which had a net gain in the number of trees last year. 1.5 BILLION muslims: OIL/SAND. So, whose not buying Israel's "crap?"

Same old song and dance - The wolf is in Iraq! No, he's in Iran! He's in Lebanon! He's in East Jerusalem! It's not just the Jew, the wolf eats gentiles too! It's not Israeli dementia, the wolf pack hides in Syria! Fear-based mass hysteria, he's in Judea and Samaria! Livni sounds delirious, how can the threat be serious? (rim shot here)

Ben Hur, the wheels come off your chariot when one factors in one simple fact - that the high-tech communications industry is a natural recipient of lucrative US and Israeli defense contracts. While I am not denigrating the mental prowess of "six million Jews" or questioning their cleverness, work ethic or industriousness, it is absolutely fair to point out that the US/Israeli nexus is one based upon a mutually beneficial working relationship between the military-industrial complexes of both nations. Factor in the Israel lobby's influence in Washington and it's plain to see that the Israeli prosperity that you cite is quite artificial. The revolving door effect insures the continuity - lawmakers become lobbyists. Lobbyists become lawmakers. Given that the Israelis are so well-off, by any standards of measurement, why is it that Israel remains the number one recipient of US foreign aid? The Israelis are petulant and wealthy beggars who think that they are entitled to the biggest slice of US aid - meanwhile homeless children die in the streets of places like Mexico City. Where are America's priorities? When it comes to "crap", Ben Hur your lovely white horses have left a lot of it in the arena.

By pacifists like you.

Up and down the line Israel has the wrong leaders to deal with its existential threats. IF they were to conjure up these fools by magic they could not get a mroe rotten and inept bunch.

The rest of the world sees Iran as a threat, not just Israel. Israel having a unilateralist attitude, and attacking etc., might be a boon for Iran. Also, given the present US political situation, probably the US should be patient too. An attack on Iran will only harden Iranian attitudes, and imperil the already dangerous situation in the ME. See the article on "Iran and Israel seen least favorably" Soft power is the key.

Egypt receives as much aid from the US as Israel per year. I wonder how you missed that? Selective editing I suggest. Also the so called Palestinians who receive money from all around the world are the largest recipients of welfare money in the middle east but they have “NO” exports, well not if you don’t count terror that is. So your model of Israeli/American mutual benefits has major flaws. Another thing, Computers and War technologies aside, the number one export to all countries from Israel is medical machines and services technologies. Your dim view of Israel might change the next time you have an MRI scan, oh maybe you think it’s a war machine? Simple minds make uninformed mass media posts, do some research.

Isn't it great what US tax dollars can do?

We will buy every thing , the spending power of 6 Golf states this year is 1000 trillion Doller that is not include Iran and other Muslim Countries ; therefore every country on the world wanna get that money in their hand , Russia is trying to join the Middle East Game , he sold air defence to Iran , he provide lot of support middle east Countries and Russia wil replace America in the Middle east cause American is weak when it comes to ME influence : so What will happen when russia become Power broker on the middle east : i let u do the thinking . Reality Check, world

Here is a snippet from a Christian Science story - "Israel - The largest recipient of US largesse in 2003, getting $2.1 billion in military aid annually; $600 million in economic aid. Egypt - Out of a US foreign aid budget of about $14 billion in 2003, Egypt was the second largest recipient with $1.3 billion in military aid; $615 million for social programs. " Here is a link to the CS article - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0412/p07s01-wome.html If one considers the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as aid to Israel - these wars are being waged at Israel's behest - then one can add in half a trillion dollars to the pile. Israel gets at least twice as much US cash as Egypt does. Israel has been siphoning off huge quantities of US funds ever since 1949. Here is a link to a WRMEA site that will educate you as to the facts in the US/Israel aid story - http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm You ought to do some research before you roll your eyeballs and unquestionably.defend the Jewish State, denigrate the Arabs and attempt to lecture informed posters.