Israel may be an ally with the United States, but it is not a friend.  It's brutality toward the Palestinian people echoes the indignity of the treatment Jews received in World War II. The Israeli wall echoes the Berlin Wall.  The most recent, disproportionate and indiscriminate bombing near Palestinian hospitals and schools, leaving 800 children dead, the continuation of settlement building, and Netanyahu's last ditch election promise that, if elected, there would never be a two state solution on his watch are all example's of Israel's arrogance bolstered by it's financial and political protection by the United States.