The Israeli Option in Strategy

[Tom Odom]

I take your first point but on the second there still seems to be an underlying assumption that Israeli strategy has failed. Given the challenges and threats they face, I think you can make a case that it has made them remarkably secure at an acceptable price.

As long as they have someone--US--to back them up--a strategy of continued existence has succeeded. At heart, that is a colonial strategy and requires continuous backing.

Defining who pays the price is an interesting question as well, one I will leave for now. But in trying to apply this to the US, whom do you see as our backers?

Tom