The U.S. currently gives $38 billion to Israel every year in foreign aid assistance. Most of the aid is used by Israel to buy American military hardware, such as jets and components for missile defense. $38 billion is 50% of the United States’ foreign aid budget for 2017. Opponents argue that the aid given to Israel is unnecessary since the country provides free healthcare and college tuition to its citizens. Proponents argue that the aid is necessary to promote democracy in the Middle East and maintain a balance of power with other countries in the region.
No!!!!! We have issues in this country that should be addressed!!! We have children who go hungry every day!!! Why do we have charities that raise money to feed hungry children while we are sending billions to foreign countries??? We need to butt out of Middle East issues!!!
It pisses me off that we give Israel full health coverage for its people but we say we can't do that here. Am an active duty military wife with a grown son who cannot afford dental benefits and high priced medication but there's so many who balk at the idea of lowering our country welfare system. How is this acceptable? Wtf is wrong with people? They are clearly ignorant.
This country is in serious debt. How the hell do we have money to give other countries when we don't have money for our own people? Which countries came to our aid during Hurricane Katrina, for example? America is like the dorky loser kid in school that gives the big kids his lunch money & cookies just so he can have "friends." Stop giving everyone money we don't have to give!!! Care about America for a change!
Absolutely not. The U.S. should recognize that Zionism and Judaism are not the same. Israel's leaders are invading a sovereign land. Why not the same outrage as over the Ukraine?
How much of our debt do we have to borrow to give them that aid? How much of our debt is owned by other foreign entities? Why can't the Israeli government support themselves yet? How long do we plan to give them aid, while not fully recognizing Palestine as a sovereign entity? How much does our preferential treatment to Israel impact on the continuing violence between them & Palestine? Are we simply borrowing money to give to Israel to fund THEIR war against Palestine? Seems like we need to wean them off the USA's teat!
No, but we should put effort into negotiating for a peace deal between Palestine and Israel, favoring Palestine as its territory was infringed upon and it has a far greater population.
US Law, as in the Symington Amendment, forbids any military assistance to any country with a clandestine nuclear weapons program, All aid to Israel must cease until they come clean on their nukes.
Yes, but charge them for this.
No, we should cut off all contact with Israel.
Despite us giving them $6-$10 million US tax dollars a day, with military protection, and diplomatic immunity, they clearly hate us.
Firstly they attacked our ship the USS Liberty in 1967, killing 34 American sailors and wounding 131 others. Instead of formally apologizing they instead covered it up with the help of our government. They've also killed several US citizens over the years. While spying on us and stealing some of our secrets, not to mention they have sold many of the weapons we've given them to China. It boggles my mind how we
Absolutely not! $3.3 billion could be spent on ending hunger and poverty in the USA. If an individual chooses to support Israel or anyone else for that matter, that is within their rights, but the government should not have the authority to make that decision for us.
Absolutely, the only glimmer of light surrounded by the other Middle Eastern cesspool.
why do we think God needs the US to protect his "chosen people?"
In 1946 there were only a handful of "Palestinians" in Palestine. When it looked as though a new nation of Israel would be created, hundreds of Muslims moved there, hoping to prevent Israel from coming into existence. Israel is the only nation in the region which provides its people real self-determination, but she is surrounded and greatly outnumbered by Muslim nations which hope to wipe Israel off the map. She needs our support and our respect for her sovereignty. She is a tiny nation, smaller than Rhode Island. Her antagonist neighbors have at least 1000 times her land area, and much
No we need to stop Israel's Holocaust against the Palestinians, call a spade a spade, and force Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians in good faith, or lose all military, financial, and other support until they stop killing Palestinians, and create a real, internationally verifiable, two separate states with their own boundaries. They further must give back all Palestinian territories taken illegally since the 1966 war.
No we need to stop Israel's Holocaust against the Palestinians,
Hello, when I looked at how you mentioned that the Israeli government is committing a Holocaust against the Arabs living in the area, I felt insulted. I'm Jewish, my great grandfather didn't survive the holocaust and it pains me to see this. You're normalising the holocaust since there is no genocide that is happening in Israel, here are definitely things that are not okay with Israel's policies about the Arabs living in the area but no, it's not a Holocaust they are not being sent to death camps without any property, being worked, tortured and used to death. If there was a Holocaust, you wouldn't hear from any Arabs who live in the area since they would've been dead. Please read about the Holocaust more to see how horrible it really was and stop normalising it.
Force Israel to adopt a secular one-state solution with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs. End discrimination against non-European Jews. Return and restore stolen Palestinian land and property.
We should not support the Christian Right's desire to make Israel the location of Christ's "second coming". They want to exclude all Arabs and Palestinians from what is know as Judea and Sumaria.
The Jews are trying to take over the US so they can go in control it is time for the U.S government to make their own choices
Stop funding and focus on destroying ISIS
Yes, but for tactical and strategic reasons, not philosophical ones.
Tell them to fix themselves
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Israel should not receive preferential funding (e.g. not more or less % than other allies)
Yes, and cut all aid, recognition, legitimacy to any group that advocates for 'Palestine' especially on college campuses
Yes, but we need to stop the war between them and Palestine and work towards making peace with them. We should approach in the most Peaceful way possible.
yes but also help facilitate some function of Palestinian autonomy
Support, but cut back funds.
Yes, but we should not be afraid to address concerns with Israel's actions
No, and we should give full support to Palestine. Israel is the oppressor.
We should give equal aid but no military support to either
No, we should take a hands off approach to Israel unless their nation is threatened with imminent destruction from the surrounding Muslim Countries.
Yes, but decrease spending. Israel is important strategically in the middle east, but decouple the conservative politics.
Still support but less involved
yes they should stay trading resources.
Support not in the funding for guns and violence kind
Yes, but leverage that support to protect and better the lives of Palestinians and Arab Israelis
We should give equal support to Israel and Palestine and these religious people like isreal is because their cucks
We should give equal support to Israel and Palestine these religious people like to defend isreal always because their cucks
yes, but lower the budget to 1/10th
Yes, but decrease the aid we provide.
this is too complicated for me
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