Here's something I've been wondering the last few days. It seems like a lot of the reasoning behind much of the aid the US gives to Israel is because Isreal is seen as the bulwark of "democracy" in the midst of countries that are not democracies. US access to oil is often given as an important reason for the US's need to even have a bulwark of democracy in the Middle East. It has occurred to me lately that with the world moving toward a non-oil based economy, Israelis (and others with a vested interest in Israel) might be concerned that the US would cease to have the incentive to give the massive amounts of support it now gives to Israel in the absence of the need for oil. And that they might, as a result, fear that Israel would cease to exist in the absence of that aid from the US.