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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Israel Spying on United States
Message-ID: <216@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 22:50:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 22:50:58 1985
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In article <696@k.cs.cmu.edu>, tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes:
> Where does Israel get off spying on the United States, who is
> their greatest friend in the world?  Who gives them all these neat weapons?
> Who is continually jeapordizing its energy sources out of friendship to
> Israel?  Who is probably the greatest single reason that Israel still
> survives?  Who is always willing to look the other way when Israel blatantly
> violates agreements concerning the use of US weapons such as fighter planes
> and cluster bombs?  I mean, this really stinks!

Allies always spy on each other.  The world is an ugly place.

> I think we should support Israel, provided we make weapons sales contingent
> on adherence to the terms of their sale and make economic aid contingent on
> the abolition of theocratic laws, but another incident like this and I will
> have to start wondering if the government isn't too corrupt and unreliable
> to deal with on any friendly basis.  Talk about a stab in the back!

Does the same go for Arab countries?  All have many more theocratic laws
than Israel, but we sell them arms.  Jews aren't allowed in Saudi Arabia
and we sold them the AWACS.  The penalty for selling Jordanian-claimed
land to a Jew is *death* and we are planning to sell them more arms.
Since you consider England to be a theocracy should this prevent us
from aiding them, should they require it?