This makes absolutely no sense, the Government cries "Foreign Control issues" as the reason why this is a bad idea. Last time I checked Israel owed its entire existence to us, and they are an allied nation. The CFIUS has effectively just said "We don't trust the Israelis" I'm sure this will bode excessively well to reduce the overall terrorist problem we're seeing in the middle east right now. I also find it hard to believe that there are no central government organizations that are using CheckPoint's firewall products. In fact, I know from experience that the Department of Veteran Affairs (and other Government Organizations) was using CheckPoint software as recently as 2001. There seems to be an ulterior motive here, but I don't care enough to dig for it. Maybe Bush doesn't want to make Marty rich.

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