I was just mentioning this on the thread: What Conservatives Think of Bush. However, P B has a thing for Israel and the Israel Lobby. I don't think he's objective. It's true that the US supports Israel with a huge amount of money, this came about because the Soviet Union was propping up various Arab governments with a huge amount of money and weapons. Now the Arabs are sitting on trillions of $'s of oil. I think that the Islamic Fundies are having less problems with the US as a supporter of Israel, than they are having with Israel as a fairly open society with elected government, free airwaves, women who hold jobs and drive and vote and join the army, and an Arab minority which has more human rights than any Arab majority anywhere else.