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.
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
No, cut all support and aid
@ISIDEWITH10yrs
We should give equal support to Israel and Palestine.
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
No, we should not give aid to any foreign nations
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
Yes, and increase funding in order to move our embassy to Jerusalem
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
Yes, but respect Israel’s sovereignty and do not dictate how it should interact with its neighbors
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
Yes, and with more aid and support
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
No, we should be less involved
@ISIDEWITH11yrs
Not the current administration
@59X5S8B2yrs
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!!!
@8TJMDNN1yr
I disagree. If you care about that money then you should understand that most money the US gives to Israel comes right back to the US. Israel buys things from the US using the money. That money can then be used to fix hunger.
@93PL9YY3mos
No screw isreal and palestine
@4WTM6RP2yrs
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.
@8TJMDNN1yr
The US does not give Israel full health coverage for its people.
@4WTXXFG2yrs
why do we think God needs the US to protect his "chosen people?"
@4QSPRJJ2yrs
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.
@8R5TV6V2yrs
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.
@4QBZG4T2yrs
Yes, but ONLY if they stop encroaching (building settlements) on Palestinian lands.
@4WQ3R682yrs
Yes, the level of antisemitism in the world is growing, and is truly terrifying. While I don't agree with all of the political and military decisions of Israel, it has a right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people, and it is our moral duty to help defend them, and prevent another Holocaust from ever occurring.
@4VLX8DB2yrs
@4Q56CFN2yrs
We need to fix our country before trying to help everyone else.
@4RYZPTL2yrs
We need to protect all human kind but we should start on our door step and stop running to the aid of every other country. We have problems on our soil...let's fix those so we know better how to help other countries.
@585Y6FQ2yrs
Yes, we need to protect the Suez Canal
@5BT42H92yrs
No, cut all support and aid as their current Prime Minister famously said to our current POTUS that "we don't need your help...". Take him at his word and do NOT allow any donations to Israel or its agencies/surrogates to be tax deductible. Israel has killed more US servicemen since the Korean War than ANY other nation on the planet. Sharon had prior knowledge of the truck bomb attacks on the Marine barracks and Embassy but did not warn us. He gave his troops detailed descriptions of the vehicles so they could avoid any injury. The reason was that President Reagan put troops into Lebanon to protect it's citizens from Israel's illegal invasion of Lebanon and he refused to back Israel's DEMAND that he guarantee their $2 billion bond issue. He said that these attacks would teach Reagan a lesson in who controls the Near East.
@4Q694BD2yrs
Uh? Aren't Palestinians still living in tent cities? I don't get it
@4RC6ZXT2yrs
All our relationships with other countries should be based on trade, not aid. Israel has a powerful influence on policy-making of the U.S. That "special relationship" is deeply embedded and not in the U.S.'s interest. It plunges us into one war after another. Let us end all wars and make peace in the world. Trade, not aid. Trade, not wars. Our foreign policy should not be set by Telaviv nor any foreign power.
@58765ZF2yrs
Israel violates more international laws than any other state on Earth and also breaches more than 70 UNSC resolutions over the last 40 years, with the USA vetoing many more.
It's against International Law, as well as US law, to continue to fund and support Israel.
@8SF9HDZ1yr
70 United Nations Space Command resolutions! The master chief will be pissed!
@4RN4N8S2yrs
We NEED to end all foreign aid to all foreign countries. America should not the World's Policeman nor the World's miracle worker. Nevertheless, we need to recognize that for all her flaws, Israel is the freest, most pro-West, and indeed the most pro- Life country in the Middle East. Israel is perhaps our greatest ally and a steadfast friend. I for one am grateful for such a great ally. Palestinians on the other hand generally are genocidal, anti-West, pro-Jihad. Read the Hamas charter. "In any conflict between barbarians and the civilized man, support the civilized man."- Ayn Rand In this case, Israel is the civilized man.
@4QWFGYT2yrs
I believe that we should cease all aid to foreign nations that currently have government officials who are under investigati0n of war crimes, have sponsored terrorists, and have human rights violations - after we have prosecuted all officials in our own government that do the same.
@4Q3R3KV2yrs
Yes, and our government SHOULD NEVER treat a nation who is claiming an entire race or religion should not exist with ANY kindness at all. If they are dealing from a position of hate, then we should react in like and kind. Treat them the way they treat others.
@4VXXQ432yrs
Absolutely, and this should even be a question. Only the un-American would even suggest otherwise.
@4RYKSY22yrs
in 1796, former president George Washington said, "The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual
fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its
affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and
its interest."
Re-evaluation is always a noble thought.
@4RM8FHF2yrs
Whether you believe in GOD or that the Bible is the word of GOD, His word says that a nation it does not matter which one that He asks to pray for a nation of Israel! This nation now is surrounded by enemies just as the Word of GOD prophesied in the last days! Turning our backs on Israel would be like committing suicide!
@4SB5FC72yrs
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!
@8TJMDNN1yr
If you care about that money then you should understand that most money the US gives to Israel comes right back to the US. Israel buys things from the US using the money. That money can then be used to fix things like the debt.
@4RCMJYL2yrs
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?
@8WT6N85Republican11mos
Because Israel is the best! They need support, and the Jews have had a lot of suffering over the years, like Hitler, Palestine, and pretty much the whole bible. Oh wait, you probably don't believe in God. So cut the last one for you.
@4QHPY8Q2yrs
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!
@8TJMDNN1yr
The Israeli government does support itself. Israel is Americas greatest ally in the middle east. It is the only democracy in the middle east. The US gives many other country's aid. The US does recognize the Palestinians.
@4QP5DJS2yrs
We should not support a nation created solely for religious reasons.
@8TJMDNN1yr
Israel was not created solely for religious reasons. If you don't like religious ethno-states start with removing the other 30 of them that are christens and Muslim. The only Jewish one will not be the first one to go.
@4QHQBVH2yrs
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.
@4WVJ7QT2yrs
Yes, but charge them for this.
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.
@4QFNKB72yrs
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.
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