At 21:43 09/01/2009, [email protected] wrote:

>Do you have your dates straight, John? You are talking about the 
>Nixon administration from 1968 on, but I am talking about the 
>Eisenhower administration in the 1950s.

Hmm, sort of.

Actually, I'm responding to the section of your post I quoted:

> >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.


And I'm merely pointing out that a) US-Israeli common interests have
been intertwined for decades, and b) Israel has constituted the same
sort of chimeric bulwark against anti-US interests in the Middle East
that Japan has constituted in the far East, and for roughly the same 60 years.


john g 



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