Reply #3: Please expand on your reasoning for this, Freddie [View All]

[IrateCitizen]

Our special relationship with Israel is based on the unshakable foundation of shared values and a mutual commitment to democracy, and we will ensure that under all circumstances, Israel retains the qualitative military edge for its national security.

First off, I fail to see how Israel can be held up as an example of a state with a "committment to democracy", considering the manner in which they have disenfranchised large portions of their population -- and those people are condemned to live in Bantustans, without the right to vote yet with the land surrounding their enclaves under strict control of the Israeli government.

Secondly, which do you think does more, in the long term, to provide security to Israel? Military strength, or a univeral committment to human rights and human dignity? Your tendency to fall back on the use of force and violence as an acceptable problem-solving method is indeed most alarming.