Sometimes I wonder . . .

It helps to remember that I am a simple soul, and that I think words have meaning, and that law has meaning. In most relationships, I like to have mutual rights and responsibilities spelled out---it just makes it easier to know what you have to do, what you ought to do, and what you can't do. With that as a forward, sometimes I wonder . . .

If the United States and Israel are really allies, why don't we have a defense treaty?

Apparently, we don't.

We do, however, have a Memorandum of Agreement signed by and between William Jefferson Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu concerning maintanence of Israel's "qualitative edge." A Christian Science Monitor article discussing the Memorandum is found here.