At 17:23 09/01/2009, [email protected] wrote:

>And that is why the US is so closely allied with Israel on the Hamas problem,
>Minoru. It reflects a common interest in fighting the joint enemy of the day.

Surely this US-Israeli connexion dates back 4 decades:

http://badley.info/history/Nixon-Doctrine-USA.event.html

I seem to recollect that the National Security Council recommended that Israel
  could provide a barrier to Arab nationalism in 1958 (I was still young).


john g


PS Nice piece though




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