It’s difficult to overstate the political and social currency that a Yale degree carries. A Yale student basically walks into just about any job he/she chooses. So to say that the students of Yale are going to be the high court judges, politicians and C.E.O.s of tomorrow is to state the obvious. No wonder the ‘Progressives’ have well and truly got their hands round the throat of this institution and others like it.I HOPE SO...
This week, a group of Yale students voted to ‘end’ America’s relationship with Israel in a protracted debate.
“An undergraduate debating society at Yale University has voted 44-25 in favor of ending America’s “special relationship” with Israel.” (SOURCE)
This echoes the results of a similar debate in Oxford back in January. Interestingly and heartening in its implications though, over two thirds of the 300 who turned up for the Yale debate walked out. Disgusted maybe? So they should be.
- THIS IS A LONG AND ON GOING BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA.
- ON ONE SIDE ARE TRADITIONALISTS WHO THINK THE USA SHOULD BE ALLIED TO THE ONLY WESTERN NATION IN THE REGION - THE ONLY DEMOCRACY, THE ONLY PLURALISTIC NON-MISOGYNISTIC SOCIETY: ISRAEL. THIS IS THE "BERNARD LEWIS" CROWD.
- AND ON THE OTHER SIDE ARE THE POSTMODERN LEFT AND THEIR COMRADES: THE ARABISTS AND THE ISLAMOPHILES - THE "EDWARD SAID"/RASHID KHALIDI CROWD.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
The McCain - Palin ticket is essential for healthy foreign-affairs and the economic and spiritual health of the nation. As you say, Obama unfailingly chooses to side with the most amoral of all positions on any issue. Palin has made it very clear that she stands on the right side of the growing Middle East crisis. Her support for Israel is right out there for the world to see. Can we afford to take any other stance with the world the way it is?
ReplyDeleteI wanted to say something more to those who say that the US gives Israel 3$ billiards a year 'for nothing' and say that Israel is depended on the US' good will. This claim is false one and assisting the interest of some Anti Israel and Anti Semite gangs, including extreme Muslims all around.
ReplyDeleteBoth countries help each other for decades, each one by hers virtue. Not only "Green Money" included, but lot of "Equal to Money" too, and Israel shares / shared those "equals" with the US for decades.
Israel and the US are pooling their scientific and technologic brainpower to find and develop new technologies, new designed electronics for industry and weaponry, searching together for alternative energy sources under a bill passed by the House and now wending its way through the Senate. The US-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has a lot of work to do, and little Israel puts the same amount of money as the great US. At the same time Israel professionals are devoting to the projects in the partnership no less than the US professionals.
Western Europe, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan got each one of them hundreds of times more aid and support than Israel through its 60 years (the military systematic aid started only in 68').
Israel gave the US a lot of products and know-how that can be measured economically. I'm sure when one as you checking the balance between both you neglect to mention some huge Israeli contribution to the US:
A. Military know-how and technologies. High sophisticated electronic devices, missiles, radars, avionics, ammunition, personal military equipment etc.
B. Intelligence – as long as the USSR existed, Israel was the main source of reliable intelligence, mainly technical intelligence, about the "second world" military, economy enterprises. Not to mention that it is still important to deal with today's Russia, and still Israel leads.
C. It is very important for the information's receiver – aka, for the US, to match its new equipments, armament, tactics and policy against the real threats developed by the enemy and at the same time to shorten the decision's making process in order to shorten the time until being ready militarily to counter the threat. All those complicated activity and technically inventions cost lot of money, which Israel expended from her own economic resources.
This kind of partnership is yet existing but not only facing the Russia threat alone but against Islamic extreme groups and countries that give them a shelter.
Israel national economy is one of the more stable national economies. Israel is well developed country which its economy grows well and fast for the last years although the Intifada. Israel is highly educated and professional and most of the outsiders don't really know Israel for real.
Israel has long been on the cutting edge of research and development in advanced technologies. A country of very limited natural and financial resources, as yet not at peace with some of its neighbors, Israel's scientists and engineers have been constantly faced with the challenge of quickly devising new and innovative solutions, such as drip irrigation (in response to the country's limited water resources) or the Merkava tank / "Arrow" missiles (as part of a wider effort to develop a home-grown defense industry). History and geography have made Israelis adept at identifying problems, finding solutions, and shortening the development process to turn them into commercial products.
Over the last decade, Israel's R&D prowess has rapidly expanded out of the military sphere, the universities and research institutes, where it was originally concentrated, to create what is widely acknowledged as a model high technology economy. Israel is second only to the United States on a per capita basis in its ability to generate new, technology-based companies with innovative, market-focused products.
It is the very strategic interest of the US to keep close relations with Israel as a huge source of scientific and technology knowledge and political advantages. Without Israel the stance of the US against the Islamic and the ME oil states would have been weaker. Israel support for the US is many times greater than the difference of their size.
thank you abe!
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