People don't like to be reminded that the United States isn't a true friend of Israel. Why else had it been necessary for Truman's old friend to be drafted to cajole him into having the US vote for Israel's independence in November, 1947?
And during that tense, frightening May, 1967 (the month before the Six Days War), when Egypt banished the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces, because it had declared that it was going to attack and destroy Israel, the United States Government insisted on "neutrality." Israel had no allies and no support, just the prayers of Jews and other sympathisers.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the United States President, and after the war, he managed to make changes in United States policy, sort of. The reason I write "sort of" is that the United States military industry has always benefited from the relationship. Israel has to use the military aid from the US on American products, and whatever improvements Israel makes are for the benefit of the USA.
It's a myth that the United States is Israel's ally. The present policy of the United States is to undermine the sovereignty and security of Israel by establishing an Arab terror state in our heartland.
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Given the present policy of *Israel*, do you really expect the US to be more Catholic than the pope?
That's a point, but most important and most helpful would be if Olmert was to be considered persona non grata by the Americans for corruption, jailing dissidents etc. That would get him where it hurts.
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