"what other nation on earth could get away with placing an entire people in subjection, creating a system of legal apartheid ,and relentlessly expanding its territory by means of conquest – and still remain the number-one recipient of U.S. foreign aid?"
RUSSIA! and China! During the cold war we propped up the USSR with foreign aid. During WWII we gave the Soviets HUGE amounts of aid! Egypt and the PLA get lots of aid.
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"the cause of the quarrel with you is your support for your Israeli allies, who have occupied our land, Palestine"
THEN why didn't he fly planes into Israeli bldgs? Or into military targets? How many Palestinians did he "liberate"? All OBL accomplished was making air travel a royal pain!
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"The plight of the Palestinians, is tragic beyond limits"
The plight of anybody in any Arab dictatorship is probably as bad as that of the Palestinians!

Al Qaeda are bullies! They attack whatever spot is weak. That Yemeni was too afraid to attack anybody else.