“Why does Israel do everything it can think of to make the whole world hate it? Because it can. Why can it? Because America is its enabler. Israel has a huge air force because America gives it airplanes. Nobody else would. Its economy stays afloat because America gives it money. If it wants to bomb somebody, the US keeps the world from stopping it. If it loses a war, which it did in ’73, the US bails it out. Israel can always say, ‘If you don’t like it, I’ll make my big brother beat you up.’ And that’s a bad thing, because one day the big brother may not come. Israelis might be better off with less help, so they’d have to learn to live where they are.” (07/17/08)