Depends. Here is a case where it wasn't: -Israelis recruit a DOD employee(Jonathan Pollard) to spy for them during the Cold War. -He tells them how to crack

Depends. Here is a case where it wasn't: -Israelis recruit a DOD employee(Jonathan Pollard) to spy for them during the Cold War. -He tells them how to crack our naval codes. -They sell the codes to the Russians in exchange for Jewish Ukrainian refugees. Israel is a democracy and the Arabs in Israel are reproducing faster than the Jews in Israel. So if they want to continue to be "The Jewish State" they need immigrants to keep the majority. So in that case is was in their interest. Great story from the New Yorker about it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts