US Investments

Investment in Israel pays off for the US and the world

June 12, 2011 at 8:44PM

As the Obama administration's new and expanding policy pours tens of billions of dollars in aid and weaponry into Arab countries with, at best, questionable results, the US, and the world, harvests immense present and future tangible benefits from US-Israel investment, ties and economic relations.

In light of the decade(s) long Arab intransigence to "real" peace negotiations with Israel, the present adversarial Obama Administration policy regarding Israel is, at best, unfortunate; and will likely serve only to encourage additional increased Arab intransigence(reluctance to negotiate) resulting in war, not peace.

"The President's peace proposal is a formula for war"…"It isn't often that this or any other US President welcomes a foreign leader (Israel's PM Netanyahu) by sandbagging him with an adversarial policy speech a day before the visit…When this President wants to make a show of his exquisite diplomatic sensitivity—burgers with Medvedev, bows to Abdullah, New Year's greetings to the mullahs-he knows how. And when he wants to show his contempt, he knows how, too."- Bret Stephens,WSJ ,"An Anti-Israel President",5/24/2011

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