What passes for fair comment on the BBC

Do we not think that there is something terribly wrong and terribly vulnerable about a country that has to continually grovel in another country and is totally dependent on that country for its very existence?

Wouldn't it be wiser to come to a just settlement along the lines that the world (including the US) has decided it requires, and thereby become a normal country inside the family of civilised nations ?

Isn't that where real security lies ?

Otway many people have called for the umbilical cord to be cut - with the increasingly negative vibes coming from this POTUS that day is coming closer. Israel would survive don't worry.
Israel must look after its own interests not the Europeans who looked on while 6 million were slaughtered and has still not gotten over its guilt which it is now transferring to the Jewish State to salve its own conscience, or even the Americans who have no trouble throwing us under the bus when it is in their interests to do so. When the chips are down we can't rely on anyone but ourselves - as history as proven.

Good luck

Who needs luck when we have G-D on our side.

And by the way, Israel does not rely on America to survive, they rely on themselves. AS Bibi put it so well in congress, America doesn't need to send troops to defend Israel because we defend ourselves.

Israel doesn't rely on America to survive, R? OK, financially, the 3-5 billion a year a gets is a mere drop in the ocean when it comes to financial support.
But were the Yanks to pull that plug, Israel would find it increasingly difficult to raise funds at decent rates on the world markets. Then, the Israeli hi-tech industry would crash and even more middle class Israelis would be seeking the documents of their ancestors to link them to what are now EU states.
And then there's the preferential tax deals which allow firms to work in Israel. If the Yanks pull the plug and the banks fail to lend, the tax deals will have to be curtailed - or Israel will return to the days of 400% inflation.
But forget the money, R. If the Yanks withdraw the diplomatic and political umbrella, Israel will be up the proverbial creek. That's why Israel needs America.
So for all of Bibi's PR exercise (full of inaccuracies, by the way. David slew Goliath, if he did, in the Ela Valley, which is in Israel proper, not over the 67 line as he claimed), Israel desperately relies on the US. That's why Bibi went to America.
Oh as for "we" defending, Leeds were rubbish at defending last year.

http://www.thejc.com/blogs/jonathan-hoffman/bbc-biased-in-favour-israel

How can anyone think BBC is PRO-Israel ...

Joe, I had a reply and I just deleted it all because I realize there's no point. I can speak to you and your cronies till I’m blue in the face, but the fact remains, I picked my side, the Israelis, and you picked yours, the other side. I can provide facts and figures to you all day long, but you will believe what you want and that is that. It just pains me that people like you and Jon etc are able to come onto a Jewish website and gloat about bad things that happen to my brothers and sisters in Israel, it’s in bad taste.

No, R, your stance unwittingly helps the other side. At least I hope it's unwittingly. If you have facts and figures, bevakasha, present them.
You seem to have very little faith in Israel. And the only bad thing I "gloat" about in Israel is its government. But that's more in pain than anything else. But then, I'm not a ventriloquist's dummy.