Robert Gates On Israel

From Sullivan:

Amazing that Goldblog doesn't insinuate that Bob Gates is an anti-Semite for saying what this blog has been saying for the past four years:

In a meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee held not long before his retirement this summer, Gates coldly laid out the many steps the administration has taken to guarantee Israel’s security -- access to top-quality weapons, assistance developing missile-defense systems, high-level intelligence sharing -- and then stated bluntly that the U.S. has received nothing in return, particularly with regard to the peace process. Senior administration officials told me that Gates argued to the president directly that Netanyahu is not only ungrateful, but also endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel’s growing isolation and with the demographic challenges it faces if it keeps control of the West Bank.

Netanyahu is also endangering this country and its citizens if he launches a unilateral war on Iran. That's not an ally; it's a one-way street. We give the Israelis everything they ask for and they give the US nothing in return.

Amen.  Robert Gates is one of the best choices W ever made.  I'm tired of evangelicals' translations of the Bible being the basis for one party's view of what our nation's foreign policy should be.  Netanyahu and Likud are a greater threat to Israel's long term survival than Iran is, and evangelicals are enabling Likud's idiocy.