Israel-Friend or Foe?

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS-Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Israel doesn't want to work toward peace in the Middle East. The recent snub and embarrassment to Vice President Joe Biden by Israel enforces that point.

There is no way Israel wants a two state solution. They continue to build settlements on disputed ground. Israel Interior Minister Eli Yishai is a lap dog for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and does whatever bidding the Prime Minister tells him to do.

Even after the very clear insult to Vice-President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton steps back from her initial outrage and meekly says: "We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel and between the American and Israeli people."

The war hawk Natanyahu has a choice. That choice is continue to choose to build and populate east Jerusalem with Jews and/or alienate the world community, including the United States.

There should be a state for Israel and a separate state for the Palestinians. Each should have their own sovereign territory.

Israel has been occupying a large swath of territory and suppressing the Palestinians for decades. Occupation is never the answer. I wonder how Israel would feel if a country with strong military might, (which they have) would invade and occupy their country decade after decade. How would Israeli's feel being told where they can travel, walk, and move about. I wonder how they would feel being told that their water, electricity, gas and all essentials are going to be controlled by the invading occupation. My guess? They wouldn't like it one bit and I would have no doubt that they would fight back any way they could.

Here is a nation that has been taking advantage of the Unites States for over 50 years.They take and take but do not give. They believe that no matter what they do the Unites States should and will take their side and back their play.

Israel is the recipient of the largest foreign aid package from the USA than any other nation in the world. The Unites States doles out billions of dollars a year in foreign aid just to Israel. Over the years the U.S. literally provided and supplied and assisted Israel with all of their military might and sophisticated technology from their Mideast war machine to their nuclear program that Israel denies they possess, but world opinion is that the Israelis do in fact have Nukes.

But yet, after all of this United States assist Israel continues to bite the hand that feeds them. The Obama administration should be appalled and angry. The United States has made Israel the most powerful force in the Mideast and we get the "middle finger.

We have to put some of the blame on past administrations and the Obama administration too. Why? Because it is very clear that the United States is not and never has been an honest broker when it comes to talks between the Jewish and Arab world. The table is certainly not level when the Jews and Arabs sit down for discussions and have the United States representatives acting as a mediator and broker. The favoritism shown toward Israel by the United States during any negotiations between the Jews and Arabs sticks out like a sore thumb and the rest of the world clearly sees the lack of parity and the inequity of the negotiations.


My feeling is that the USA should insist on a two state solution and actually demand that Israel cease making excuses and take the International communities recommendations to cease occupations, draw actual borders and territorial lines to separate the two states.

It should be mentioned also that it is unacceptable that Israel continues to spy on the United States and has individuals and their agents passing sensitive and national security information on to the Israeli government. It is a know fact that over the past few decades these acts have been committed and it will have a devastating effect on the United States at some point in time.

The International community should rally together and insist that Israel sit at the table with the Arab world and representatives from the world powers and without reservation draw borders up for separate states and have the Nations come together to enforce those borders.

We can interfere with Bosnia and put troops on the ground and separate their warring factions and then draw up their borders, we can draw and regulate borders between North and South Korea, we can draw borders in Iraq and Afghanistan but when it come to the Mideast and deal with Israel we pussyfoot around and walk on eggshells. There is no reason for it.

The United States has been pandering,pacifying, supporting and propping up Israel for decades and it is really time for the United States and this administration to put their foot down, and down hard. It is also time for Israel to step up and do the right thing. I would offer that if Israel continues its unreasonable approach to bringing peace to the Middle East the United States should immediately cease all foreign aid to that country. As a side note, all of that mass foreign aid the United States has been providing to Israel should be cut back drastically. The amount of the aid is obscene. And, - That's my opinion.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com