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   From: Arminius@hotmale.com   
      
   "hummingbird"  wrote in message   
   news:ps2dc2p606h3hghoshk6o2jth5u6192t6c@4ax.com...   
   > That reason is:?   
      
   I usually support the underdogs. Tiny Israel surrounded by vast sea of   
   hostile neighbours.   
      
   Plus Israel represents the only advanced country in the shitty Middle East.   
   You know as well as I do the advances it has presided over in its short   
   lifetime. Plus the many Nobel Prize winners that have been Israelis or Jews.   
   Israel is an asset for the civilized world. In contrast, the surrounding   
   Arab world hardly produces a single internationally marketable product (even   
   the oil is located, extracted and refined with Western tech). Arab countries   
   are typically poor, backward and rife with corruption and civil and   
   sectatrian strife. Without their oil, they would produce virtually nothing   
   that anyone else wants or values.   
   Israel is the only democracy in the region - although Iraq is now claiming   
   to be. It's also not a theocracy and stuck in the culture and politics of   
   the 7th century.   
   Israel is a net asset for the world. The Arab world is a net liability, as   
   we see around us every day. Therefore I root for the light of civilization   
   rather than the culture of the Dark Ages.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)