Friendless Fi

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USS LIBERTY VETERAN ASSOC FILES WAR CRIMES CHARGES AGAINST ISRAEL;

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"So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another
produces a
variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the
illusion
of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest
exists,
and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former
into a
participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate
inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the
favorite
nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure
the
nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought
to have
been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to

retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld . . .


"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to
believe
me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be
constantly
awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one
of the
most baneful foes of republican government . . . Excessive partiality
for one
foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they
actuate
to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the
arts of
influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of
the
favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and
dupes
usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their
interests.


" . . . nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate
antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for
others
should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable
feelings
toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward
another an
habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It
is a
slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is
sufficient to
lead it astray from its duty and its interest."


-- President George Washington
Farewell Address
September 26, 1796


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