Originally Posted by Ardy
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It seems to me that Israel has always been clear that they would pursue what ever policy they consider to be in their best interest... regardless of how we feel about it.
Something I've mentioned a few times before, and which I believe should be the basis of rational exchange between and among nations, is the maxim of Lord Palmeraton: [England] has no eternal enemies and no unchanging alliance, just eternal and unchanging interests.

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I wish I could say the same were true of our own policy towards Israel.
Mutatis mutandi: The United States has no eternal enemies and no unchanging alliances, but we have eternal and unchanging interests.

Life should be led like a cavalry charge - Theodore Roosevelt