And I am enjoying the correspondence on my original TCS version from Friday. Here is some of it, in all its mis-spelled glory. First there is "kip" (valhat@aol.com):
This comes to no surprise to me that this money has been waisted by our govt. to defend a terrorist state . However if all the truth be known it would be much,much higher. No wonder all the arabs hate america. The only thing left to do is sacrafice a few thousand young men and women in unessary war
And then Greg Woods:
well, i really don't care who hates us, the point is that we shouldn't be there in the first place.
I could waste a lot of bandwith reprinting all the debate, so why don't you go to TCS, scroll to the bottom of the article, and follow it for yourself.
Before you go, here is a supportive email I received from Israel:
Mr. Fienberg - Shalom from Jerusalem, Israel!
First, let me thank you for an extremely lucid analysis of Mr. Stauffer's diatribe against Israel. What most Americans fail to do, I'm afraid, is look at the FACTS (of any case, but for sure, in the case of Israel), preferring, instead, to base their arguments on the emotion and sway of any given moment, especially as illustrated by the images shown by CNN and other primarily anti-Israel media outlets.
One thing that seemed to be missing (unless I'm the one who missed it) from your article, however, is that the majority (if not all) of the "military aid" the United States "gives" to Israel is spent IN the many aspects of the Defense Industry of the United States.
Thus, the benefits to the United States include jobs and income for probably many more families there than are benefited here, except perhaps in the direct saving of lives.
While watching a report last night about the current campaign on US college & university campuses in which students are calling for the stoppage of investments in Israel by those same colleges & universities, I wondered how many of those same students who were protesting so vehemently against Israel had their tuitions paid for by parents who worked in that same Defense Industry. How many, in fact, wouldn't be able to attend Georgetown or other expensive colleges & universities if the US stopped the military aid to Israel and put out of work many of those employed in the several aspects of the Defense Industry.
Just a thought from this side of the big pond!
suzanne pomeranz
jerusalem, israel
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