Israel can make good use of it.
Conservatives fight against tax money going towards helping impoverished people in their own country and then turn around and support sending billions to Israel. Being rich or poor is a choice according to conservative logic, right? If they want more money they should earn it themselves. Giving them welfare will just create dependency, right?
You do realize that Israel isn't the only nation in the world to receive US foreign aid, right? It isn't even the largest recipient, Afghanistan is.
Yes, I do realize that. Do you realize the argument you're setting up depends on the assumption that I don't have a problem with that as well?
Should we give Israel more aid?
Israel asking U.S. for 50% increase in next defense assistance package | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel reportedly wants the U.S. to increase its annual defense assistance package by half, to an average $4.5 billion. Defense News reported this weekend that Israel and U.S. officials have in recent months begun negotiations on the next 10-year aid package. The previous package, negotiated by the George W. Bush and Ehud Olmert governments in 2007, averaged $3 billion of assistance each year, for a total of $30 billion, from 2007-2017. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants that to increase to $42-45 billion over the 2018-2028 period, Defense News reported, adding that President Barack Obama during his March 2013 visit to Israel “endorsed in principle” that range.
Defense News quotes “U.S. and Israeli experts” as saying that the amount would be separate from any package the United States offered Israel as compensation for the Iran nuclear deal now being negotiated between Iran and the major powers. Like the defense assistance package currently in place, it is also separate from the $1.2 billion in materiel the United States stores in Israel and which under certain conditions is available for Israeli use, and from the approximately $500 million in U.S. funds provided to Israeli anti-missile development each year.
Come on, show me how stupid I am.
Afghanistan gets four times as much aid from us as Israel does.
United States foreign aid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think we should cut them off too.Oh, and Palestine as well.
Okay.
Conservatives fight against tax money going towards helping impoverished people in their own country and then turn around and support sending billions to Israel. Being rich or poor is a choice according to conservative logic, right? If they want more money they should earn it themselves. Giving them welfare will just create dependency, right?
So the only place where you're criticizing the aid to Afghanistan is in threads you open... criticizing Israel.
Funny, you don't think you're kinda proving my point here? Either that or it's a huge coincidence you will agree.
No, I actually think I trashed your point entirely. That thread demonstrates that I don't agree with sending aid to other countries either. You told me to show you how stupid you are by finding one post where I criticized aid being sent to other countries. Done and done.
The point I was making, as you're obviously so aware of it that you've seen it coming before I've actually made it, which says a lot on its own
is that you take more issue with aid to Israel than to other countries even though Afghanistan as one example gets a billion US dollars more every year in aid than Israel does.
The fact that the only other thread than this thread where you've criticized the aid to Afghanistan is another thread you've opened to bash Israel, where again you only said it in response to someone who confronted you about it (this time Kobie), does prove my point. It absolutely does.
We need to cut all aid to Isreal, like right now.Should we give Israel more aid?
You do realize that Israel isn't the only nation in the world to receive US foreign aid, right? It isn't even the largest recipient, Afghanistan is.
Should we give Israel more aid?
Israel asking U.S. for 50% increase in next defense assistance package | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel reportedly wants the U.S. to increase its annual defense assistance package by half, to an average $4.5 billion. Defense News reported this weekend that Israel and U.S. officials have in recent months begun negotiations on the next 10-year aid package. The previous package, negotiated by the George W. Bush and Ehud Olmert governments in 2007, averaged $3 billion of assistance each year, for a total of $30 billion, from 2007-2017. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants that to increase to $42-45 billion over the 2018-2028 period, Defense News reported, adding that President Barack Obama during his March 2013 visit to Israel “endorsed in principle” that range.
Defense News quotes “U.S. and Israeli experts” as saying that the amount would be separate from any package the United States offered Israel as compensation for the Iran nuclear deal now being negotiated between Iran and the major powers. Like the defense assistance package currently in place, it is also separate from the $1.2 billion in materiel the United States stores in Israel and which under certain conditions is available for Israeli use, and from the approximately $500 million in U.S. funds provided to Israeli anti-missile development each year.
Yeah, it says how entirely predicable your arguments are.
No, I do not take more issue with aid being sent to Israel. That's an incorrect assumption and I have already demonstrated that.
No, it really doesn't. There is absolutely no basis from which you can reasonably assume that one bothers me more than the other. Are you seriously trying to tell me how I feel about it? You're wrong because I am telling you how I feel about it. You know, because I'm me and you're not. My post in the other thread adequately shows that it all bothers me.
Afghanistan is a war torn country that we are still heavily involved in, and that has a per-capita GDP of $664. In contrast, Israel is a developed nation with a per-capita GDP of $36,000. So why does Israel need US taxpayer money?
You're hardly unpredictable, yourself.
By showing you've criticized it in another thread you've created to criticize Israel. You haven't opened a thread about aid to Afghanistan. These two 'demonstrations' base the fact that you take more issue with aid to Israel than other countries, and I use the word base because they make it undeniable.
Now now no need to get so angry about it, I was merely proving a point here.
If it didn't need it the US wouldn't give it. I highly doubt the American administrations through the years are just sending money to anyone who wants it.
You're hardly unpredictable, yourself.
By showing you've criticized it in another thread you've created to criticize Israel. You haven't opened a thread about aid to Afghanistan. These two 'demonstrations' base the fact that you take more issue with aid to Israel than other countries, and I use the word base because they make it undeniable.
Now now no need to get so angry about it, I was merely proving a point here.
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