Who Are Our Allies?

Iran still has a nuclear missiles program in the works.

Israel is our supposed ally. But, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has gone on for too long.

Why do we have such issues in the Middle East all the time? The U.S. government wants to support a U.N. Security Council statement denying support to Israel's continued settlement. It's a political move, but I think that it's appropriate seeing that Israel continues to make illegal settlements onto Palestinian land. Israelis claim that they own this land after the Six-Day War in 1967, but nobody in the international community recognizes this land as Israel's. In fact, it's still considered illegal. Although Israel is an ally, the United States is making, what I believe to be, a right move towards international diplomacy. If we ever want peace between Israelis and Palestinians, these "settlements" and communities of Israeli civilians need to be dissipated.

On another note, it makes me a little more nervous with Israel's reports of Iranian's transporting of, what the U.S. government is saying is, "unknown" goods/products to Syria through the Suez Canal. Sketchy.