In the war against terror, I feel that Bush has negleted terrorists second in their deadliness only to Al-Qaeda. These are the Palestinian terrorists fighting against Israel. Israel is our closest ally and it is our duty to help defend it. Though we do give Israel significant amounts of money, which makes me proud of the US, we do not give it enough military or diplomatic support. For example, our embassy is located in Tel Aviv, because we do not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Often times, the questionsthat come up are moral ones: Does Israel deserve our aid? Is Israel a moral country that excersizes restraint? Is Israel truly unbiased toward the Palestinians, and does that affect our policy? Really and truly, I do not see how our why Israel should be unbiased. Its existence is threatened. When terrorists attacked us on September 11, we fought a merciless war against them. The war on Afghanistan was every bit justified. And our existence wasn't even under threat.
With regard to the other two questions. Without a doubth, Israel excersizes great restraint when fighting against the terrorist and thus deserves our support. In all the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, there have been three Israeli acts of terror against Palestinians or Arabs, while there have been hundreds of terrorist attacks against Israelis, and thousands of attempted attacks. The only Israeli terrorist not to die during the attack was arrested by Israel and was sentenced to life in prison by Israel. If Israel had the death penalty, he would have probably recieved it.
As another testament to this, Israel's supreme court rerouted the ever famous wall of security to minimize harms to West-Bank Arabs. Though I don't like the wall at all, Israel has shown that, without a doubt, its interest is not to torment Arabs, but to secure itself.
We must support such an enlightened democracy in the face of destruction.