S1: Thanks for the excellent points you made and the info contained in the articles you attached to your post. For better or worse, the Mideast is the fulcrum of international events nowadays - and I hope we, as americans, never turn our backs on the Israelis who have as much right as anyone else in the region to the sliver of land called Israel. Obviously, I & most everyone else also hope we can do this w/out another generalized war.