Reply #7: It is just possible, Muddle [View All]

just possible, that when everything else has been tried, the US might try disengagement.

"If the Pew poll is to be believed, many Israelis would be relieved--and finally see light at the end of the tunnel. With the US out of the picture, the occupation would become, and be recognized to be, unsustainable."

And for America there will be huge beneficial side-effects:
"...anti-American rage would diminish to the vanishing point and the consequent threat of further terrorist attacks on Americans and American interests, and there would no longer be any need to continue the series of wars agaisnt Israel's enemies...

As for "standing by its allies," the US has stood by allies in the past and then pulled out. After all, the US has to take care of its own interests first. I'm wondering if Israel is preparing for that, or for a reduction in aid.