Dear Reader, As a valued subscriber to our mailing list, we ask for your help in informing the public on underreported news events, such as religious persecution of Christians, the threat of Islamic extremism, problems emanating from multiculturalism in the West, and the growing military strength of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and ISIS alongside a weakened U.S. national security. Please invite your friends and colleagues, by clicking this link, to also subscribe to our free daily mailing list: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/list_invite.php?s=1879&m=1296&k=99dda3980f4bc259aa63efd0db37f507 It just takes a moment to send your friends a personalized invitation through our mailing list system. Sincerely, The Gatestone Staff The U.S.-Israel Alliance: No Apologies Necessary by Lawrence A. Franklin  •  July 23, 2014 at 9:00 am There is no change in U.S policy toward Israel that will win any true allies in the Middle East, despite what Arab leaders claim. They often assert that if only we would solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem first, relations would improve. This is a tactic. These leaders employ it simply to divert Western officials from making demands on them, instead of on Israel. The reality is that most Arabs view the U.S., its European allies and Israel with ineradicable contempt. A test launch of the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system, jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. (Image source: United States Missile Defense Agency) Remember the commentaries after 9/11 that "we should have been expecting something like this"? Some even implied that America was, in part, responsible for the attacks because of our one-sided policy toward the Muslim world, and in particular, "our support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian land." Remember also, though, the news reports about the cheering and dancing in Palestinian Arab neighborhoods on 9/11? Perhaps these celebrations resembled the high-fives and other macabre gestures of glee made by some Palestinian Arabs following the recent kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teenagers in Gush Etzion, near the ancient Judean city of Hebron. Guilt-riddled apologies for America's alliance with Israel can only be explained by ignorance, by disingenuous attempts to curry favor with Arabs, or for some, by a darker motivation. Continue Reading Article

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