Reply #52: Actually, to be perfectly fair...

[Spider Jerusalem]

they're not being particularly hot-headed nor are they "desperate" to gain control of "our" ports.

Control of container freight shipping facilities is, as you may or may not be aware, part of the UAE takeover of the UK-based P&O shipping company. The concession for facility management and logistics in these US ports was contracted to P&O (which, as one of the world's largest container shipping companies, has the expertise, leverage, and economy of scale to operate a large freight terminal efficiently).

Port security is in the hands of US Customs, the US Coast Guard, and the US Border Patrol, and is NOT part of the freight terminal concession.

And as to hot-headed, it seems to me that the reaction in the US to this whole thing is rather MORE hot-headed, being based as it is on poor understanding of what's actually happening and the cynical exploitation of xenophobia, ignorance and anti-Arab sentiment by politicians and the media under the guise of an empty argument that our national security is somehow "threatened". (Note that neither Germany nor Australia seems to have a problem with DPW operating container freight terminals in their countries.)