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to treason by the republicans. Why? because the republicans are financially invested in the American Jewish lobby and the wealth they use for Israeli benefit. They are loath to criticize Israel.

Obama, remaining true to the more open and morality based foreign policy he claims is his goal, may be more open to criticize Israel then McCain. The Arab nations know this. The Muslims know this .

Do you think the present oil prices are only the result of speculators driving up the price? Think again. I majored in economics in college. I understand supply and demand. Do you think that if GM had more orders for cars then they have available now, they would not open closed plants or re-hire needed workers to fill those orders?

The demand is there for oil, yet the Arabs refuse to sufficiently increase the oil production, thus matching demand. Why? They want Obama as president, not McCain. They see the dramatic difference in the two, and they want Obama.

They are using the same tactic used in 1978, by creating the second oil crisis to oust Jimmy Carter. After he managed at the Camp David Accords to help Israel and Egypt come to terms in 1977, Muslim were outraged. They used oil and a shortage as a political tool to influence the elections. Carter called the 1978 oil shortage, "the moral equivalent of war." They are doing it again.

Sound too sophisticated for a seemingly technologically backward area of the world? The Arab world has been around thousands of years. They have been engaged in power politics for centuries. If Obama is elected and he pulls out of Iraqi, it will be viewed as a defeat for Bush. And Israel.

Obama is more likely to criticize some Israel policies, McCain will not. Thus are only some of the dramatic differences we might see. Only time will tell.. and votes.

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