Israel and USA

Thinking relatively prevents me from commenting about many things.
Right now, what has been paramount in the press and in my mind and even in conversations with Th, is Israel and, especially now, it’s relationship with the US and with Germany.
What is exciting for me is looking at both German language and English language news about it all—the settlement disputes. German TV has several very good videoblogs on their main television network websites, trying to clarify the row, trying to show what things are really happening.
Netanyahu claims Jews have been building Israel for 3000 years. Israelis participating in the settlement building ask why Obama thinks he can tell them where they cannot build. The US has every right to be involved in telling them what to do, as it is their tax money (and it was my tax money until 2004) that went to defending them and supporting them. I am against using blackmail to get governments to yield to US interests (2003 Bush administration requesting cooperation from Europe, targeting Germany as an ungrateful recipient of American support.) But, we STILL give millions to Israel. The American political (and military) orientation is still behind Israel despite the obvious conflict of interest for American soldiers in the nearby region, per Gen. Petranus)
Demonstrators and international human rights organizations protest in the newest settlement area and seeing the collision of Israeli and Palestinian citizens and activists is immediate. Israel seems to propose that they are „building“, but they are also taking people out of the homes that they themselves built decades ago.
The ARD correspondent asks a Palestinian women standing outside her now-occupied home and explains that she and her family are for living in peace and a two-state solution, but when things like this happen, what is she supposed to do and think. The correspondent them asks the Israeli young man standing inside the house gate what he thinks about what he has done. He simply says that it is a nice big house and turns to leave. The woman is told what the young Israeli has said about her home and she curses him and his family to the skies. This incident is a perfect example of what I imagine to be a constant tug back and forth of hope and hatred. How could one not hate the one who takes over your home and property, leaving you on the street. The sole reason this is possible is because one family is Palestinian and one is Israeli.
I am no expert, but this ... is plain to see

http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/dossierzwischenmittelmeerundjordan100.html