Originally posted by: vbangle

Originally posted by: lordjedi
If we stopped giving them money and stopped supporting them, the other countries would attack in the blink of an eye, much like they did the day after Israel was recreated way back in 1947.

Are you forgetting that Israel has one of the worlds largest nuclear ICBM programs next to the USA, Russia and China.....?

Nope. I'm fully aware of Israel's nuclear capabilities. I just looked up some items on their space program as well. They don't necessarily have full ICBMs, but it's not a huge jump to go from a space program to ICBM capabilities.

Are you forgetting that no one wins a nuclear war? Israel isn't going to launch first. They do have a very powerful military, but they won't be the first ones to launch. If anything, Iran will attempt to detonate a nuclear bomb in Israel. If they really want to see the middle east disappear in the blink of an eye, they'll do it. They'll likely be able to detonate one nuke on Israeli soil before Israel strikes back with a vengeance.

Remember what happened when Israel was recently attacked by Lebanon? Israel struck back hard, hitting far more targets and killing far more people than Lebanon did. They weren't messing around and they weren't going to sit back and just be attacked. Yeah, world opinion got pissed off at Israel, but apparently everybody forgot that Hezbollah attacked first and that Israel was fighting back, trying to take out the targets. It really isn't their fault that Hezbollah, and any other terrorist nation, puts missile launchers in civilian structures.

Israel has no problem defending themselves, but there's no reason we shouldn't sell them weapons and provide some aid to help them out.