Bri,Read through these posts and you will see that Prom/Jerry stand firmly against everything I say, and vice versa.
However, I agree with them that your Mr. Curtis is full of hot air. I read through his article and found that Mr. Curtis has a lot of impressive numbers, but those numbers are skewed. In particular, he strongly suggests that all American military expenditures in the Mediterranean are for support of Israel. He then takes his own suggestion as fact, divides that expenditure among each Israeli citizen and suggests that each is receiving approximately $20,000 per year as a handout from the U.S.
Although Mr. Curtis produces some impressive sounding numbers, he is entirely incapable of producing non-numerical data.Most notably:
"There is good evidence also that had it not been for complex maneuvers by the Israel lobby, including encouragement of third party candidates and unrelenting partisanship by pro-Israeli syndicated columnists and other media figures, Democratic President Jimmy Carter probably would have been reelected in 1980, and Republican President George Bush almost certainly would have been reelected in 1992."
And what is this evidence? Mr. Curtis does not say. Furthermore, this contradicts his statement that the U.S. government has blindly supported Israel. If the U.S. is so blindly supporting Israel, why would the "pro-Israel syndicate" even bother messing with politics? Certainly not for the defeat of Carter or Bush.
From your posts it is unclear as to where your political ideologies lay. You could either be a right-wing government-hater, a left-wing socialist, or anywhere between. Please provide some evidence as to where your ideology sits. AND, if you do consider yourself on the left, please, please, please, please, please go over to the right.
