Wonderfully said Steinitz and Sa'ar. We are better off without the U.S. Mitchell said what he said and probably arranged the "leak" thinking he would achieve his ends by threats. I can think of nothing better than being a truly Indpendant State - which means "goodbye USA"

every one knows that our existence is linked to USA and their military support!!! at last lebanon war we were out of bombs!!!!!they made an air bridge to provide us with bombs!!! wake up Mr Minister !!!!!!

i'm sure we can find something else to do with our $3 BILLION every year.

Yes, Tim, I'm sure the U.S. can do something better with the $3 billion. Perhaps you're not aware, but the lion's share of that must be spent by Israel in the U.S. with American defense firms to buy American weaponry. So yes, I'm sure those U.S. companies will be happy to see that money go elsewhere. And I'm sure the U.S. military will be happy to no longer receive the various improvements Israel has made on U.S. weapons and then given the technology back to the U.S. And I'm sure, if Israel didn't exist, that the U.S. would be happy to have Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, etc. as their most trusted partners in the region.

Nothing short of full-fledged sanctions against the apartheid entity will give it incentive to change its racist and murderous ways vis a vis the Palestinian Arab natives. One state or 2 state, the time for action has come and we will NO LONGER accept the status quo. This status quo apparently is well received by our Jewish neighbors who don't give a hoot how much water we have to drink or how many checkpoints we must endure to reach a hospital! Oh - and no negotiations, they were a time-buying trick to expand settlements!

This should be front page news in every worthy news room in America. Then, we can then pull out all the military and intelligence assistance along with all other support that will level the playing field in the Middle East. Having Israel declare its nuclear program or face sanctions and the possiblity of military invasion could go a long way at winning economic blockade inside the UNSC. Putting NATO troops on the ground to enforce the freeing and rebuilding of Gaza and the West Bank from land seizures, targetted assassinations and airial bombing. Wow, this is starting to smell like, bringing Israel and Zionist Christian Hillbillies into the real world. How long would you think Israel would last on a level playing field with it's neighbors or for that matter geopolitically?

The difference between Shamir and bibi is that Shamri contiued to build, and faced the same threats form the Bush government. Bibi has already surrendered on settlements, and is still being threatened by barack.

What has supplying military hardware during a time of war got to do with loan guarantees? Mitchell didn't threaten to break off military co-operation. That would be a more serious threat for sure, but I doubt it would happen as Israel is US's only reliable ally in the ME, and its strongest.

How can Israel advance with peace negotiation while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sponsors birthday celebrations honoring Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, Murderer of 37 israeli civilians. http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1526

WELL SAID NUMBER 1

yes no,4 carry waisting your money on drugs and hookers iraq and afganistan and now yemen that will give a very goog return

and will be a long time after. America's days are numbered anyway.

America has ceased bing an industrial giant. She has destroyed her industrial base and the 3B that is so much talked about by the anti-semites is being spent in America to shore up her own weak military industries. Just last year IMF (Israel Military Industries) was asked to make 300M bullets for the American Army for heavens sake. The Americans today are all about pretend.They have nothing but bluster.

Who needs your money in the first place. We Jews wont be your slaves and wont take orders from you or anyone else for that matter. I recommend you shove your money where the sun doesnt shine. Yankee fools.

General George F. Keegan, a retired U.S. Air Force intelligence chief, disclosed in 1986 that he could not have obtained the same intelligence that he received from Israel if he had "five CIAs." During his interview, at which time the Cold War was still raging, he added: “The ability of the U.S. Air Force in particular, and the Army in general, to defend whatever position it has in NATO owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any single source of intelligence” - Sept 2007. As to legitimacy : http://xrl.us/beub6e

Israel should give a serious warning to the Palistinians,if they dont stop firing at Israel,Israel will reseve the right to defend herself harshly

Many try to portray this BDS cause as something noble? But this isn't some noble cause, this for the facists, homophobic, racist, anti-semitic, and intolerant society of "Palestine". The people who danced on 9/11, who handed out sweets that day because it was 'great'. I simply cannot how the Obama administration has gone head long to support them. These people aren't American allies and aren't in American interests. And the fact is that most people who support them aren't American allies as well and generally seek the destruction of the US after Israel. Why would you want to support such an effort? The US should be leading the way, especially with its history of exceptionalism, as a force where freedom rings! Not someone that views a society such as the Palestinians where its okay to 'honor' kill a woman because she dated a man of the wrong religion, clan, or nationality, versus Israeli society where we regularly hold the gay rights parade, women hold high positions of public office (one was even the PM!), Arabs are part of the parliament and have (to much) freedom of slander, and a place where African refugees run Egyptian bullets just to have a taste of freedom. The fact is that the ultimate sign of the best societies to live in are where people seek to be refugees. While the Palestinians try to portray Israeli society as something viscous, the boatloads of African and at one time Vietnamese refugees speaks volumes! The fact is that palestinian society will be a place where people will leave in droves, not flock to it. I simply cannot understand this need to birth such a barbaric and intolerant society. Literally Gaza is becoming a Saudi Arabia without oil, and only export rockets and suicide bombers, what do you think will happen in Judea & Samaria? Its time for Israeli's and the world to state that if there is going to be 'palestine' its not going to be what it is now.

tell that to the great soldiers who have kept us alive and well through 47 48 67 73 Baruch Hashem you can count on Israel their soldiers their heart and Hakodesh Baruchu

an independant state in the antarktika? Your perspectives are that of a toad...

Clearly Israel is ready to stand on its own, so obviously no more aid, loan guarantees or UN vetoes are needed and Israel should be left to ..

Figures that someone from San Francisco would write such an anti-semetic statement. You mention leveling the playing field , rebuilding Gaza, nuclear programs etc so that Israel will fail and be destroyed. Deep down you are an anti-semite. You fail to realize that Israel has never threatened another country with nuclear weapons (or even used them for that matter). Your blind hatred towards Israel and Jews oozes from your post. You hate us so much that you can't even admit that about every technological or medical device you use daily was invented by an Israeli or Jew. So instead of saying thank you, which we don't expect, you wish for us to be overrun and killed by the Arab terrorists in the region. Level playing field? Why? You would rather support terrorists in Gaza then see Israel succeed. What do you think, a little mary jane will solve all the problems? You want to help terrorists but they don't want it and would rather see you dead. That is how warped your brain is.

"Nothing short of full-fledged sanctions against the apartheid entity " Apartheid, hmm, yup the fact that Arabic the official language of Israel, Arab MKs serve in parliament, army, and official government bodies. The fact all Israeli-Arab citizens have the right to vote, but also aren't required to do military service, and the list goes on and on. Yet, the Palestians seem very hell bent in making there territories Jew free. They've even declared it. So Jews are only allowed to live in certain areas while Palestinians can live anywhere? Those sound exactly like the rules that Apartheid South African Government applied to non-whites? "will give it incentive to change its racist and murderous ways vis a vis the Palestinian Arab natives." Racists, Farfur the mouses diatribes about killing the Jews and how it's good isn't racists? I dare you to find something like that on Israeli TV! The brainwashing on PA TV is disgusting and invokes images of a Facists state preparing it's population to ethnically cleanse a group of people. And murderous, yea I guess dropping fliers is our way of being 'murderous'. "One state or 2 state, the time for action has come and we will NO LONGER accept the status quo. " Actually you will until you accept the reality. You started a war to annihilate the Jewish people. Like how the Arab League Secretary Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam said one day after the 1948 war: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades" "This status quo apparently is well received by our Jewish neighbors who don't give a hoot how much water we have to drink" Actually the water problem is due to the rampant illegal drilling of wells and refusal of the PA to enforce any laws. And it's also a nice thing to blame on Israel, much like everything the palestinians do. "or how many checkpoints we must endure to reach a hospital!" You mean like riding in an ambulance like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oesBeCFAlg "Oh - and no negotiations, they were a time-buying trick to expand settlements!" You start a war, lose, and then expect we pay you for your loses. The Definition of Chutzpah.

Yuval Steinitz was joking and so was George Mitchell. Relax Israel. You got the US by the balls, for some reason.

Israel can't be trusted? Do you mean as opposed to the Arabs, like the Jordanian doctor in Afghanistan who just blew himself to kingdom come, slaughtering six CIA agents in the process? Or Dr. Nidal Hasan? An American-born Arab who was entrusted with the psychiatric care of American soldiers and, instead, ended up slaughtering them. Not only is your ignorance astounding...but it's dangerous, because it means there are still people out there who don't recognize who the real enemy is.

More whining from the world's perpetual victims? It's time to cut the bullshit about checkpoints when you know damned well they only exist because of the suicide bombers, and other assorted Arab terrorists, who would otherwise make life unlivable for Israelis...Jews, Muslims and Christians alike.