Peloni: US investment in Israeli defenses has led to priceless enhancement of real world research and development in America’s militiary industrial complex, but it has had the affect of limiting the respect which the US has for its ally. The ‘aid’ should be ended. Bibi says it will be ended within ten years time. I expect that it will be sooner than that, and when it does end, Israel and America will look at eachother with a more honest and fair assessment of two independent nations with only their shared history and values to shape the relationship between them, and this will be an important and valuable change to anticipate. This change is definitely coming, and to be honest the sooner it does, the relationship between America and Israel will become better and stronger. As Malkah notes, the proposition to end the aid should not be one focused on alienating these two nations, but in rejoicing in the fundamental basis of the relationship between the two nations, which is based on something far more substantial than finances.


When I lived in Yamit in the 70s we had this argument. Don’t wait. Now