Ally: a panhandling country, the only compensatory act of which is to allow one to practice charity in cosmic, never-ending, unnecessary proportion.
I realized this the other day when a politician stunned me by referring to Israel as "our greatest ally."
What? In the 60 or so years of its modern existence, what has it done for the U.S. aside from degrading our balance of payments? The last time I heard an estimate - and it was from Israel National Radio - 25% of the GNP of this dinky piece of desert was aid, overt and covert, from us. Who knows what it might be today? Without our arming it, funding it, giving it everything in sight, it wouldn't exist. Reading the Old Testament, I decided that, as far as Israel is concerned, this country has taken the place of God.
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