our U.S. tax dollars will indirectly go to Iran to pay Israel's debt through our annual state aid to it.

be a neutral court able to review the documents and give a ruling without being in bed with one side or the other.

If the ruling is an accurate reflection of what took place, no wonder Israel gets along to well with the Republicans. It would be similar to the idea of a large corporations stiffing someone on a debt owed.

my other post was rhetorical.

the Swiss have no business here.
they are slimeballs.

Israel and Iran were on pretty good terms throughout the 1980s. Israel pushed for the Iran-Contra deal. The two countries sometimes saw themselves as fellow non-Arab nations bracketing the Middle East and having interests in common.

It was only after the US smashed Iraq in the first Gulf War -- and the support of the George H.W. Bush administration for Israel began to flag -- that the Israelis invented an Iranian threat as a way of justifying continued US military support.

In addition, the speech in which Ahmadinejad suggested that the Israeli regime "must vanish from the pages of time" wasn't until 2005. (There was never any threat to wipe Israel off the map. That was a heavily slanted mistranslation.)

So the attempt in this story to imply that Israel and Iran have been enemies since 1979 and that Iran has been threatening to wipe Israel off the map for the last 36 years is grotesquely misstated.