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Originally Posted by HurricaneDC
I'm not trying to be facetious, I'd like to hear some real answers. I know we give them a generous amount of aid, but what do we get in return? They sure haven't put any boots on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. And apparently they've been doing some technology/defense dealings with China.
Concrete examples preferred.
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First of all .. Why not question Why we give billions in annual aide to Egypt, an enemy of Israel and Jews worldwide and billions to Saudi Arabia .. also, an enemy of Israel and Jews worldwide?
Why does this Administration want to give billions in advanced jet fighters and other weaponry to Egypt, home of the Muslim Brotherhood , and to Saudi Arabia, home for fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers?
Aide to Israel is one of the most cost-effective investments that Americans make in support of their international interests.
They are the ONE country that actually pays us back annually on the "LOANS"!
Not only that .. $1.325 of the $1.8 billion annual military aide Must, by law, be spent in the United States, creating tens of thousands of American jobs.
$80 to $112 billion is estimated to go directly or indirectly to support our European allies in NATO and is many times the size of the aide to Israel.
The aide given to Israel should be measured against the major threat to Israel's security from Iran, Syria, the Palestinian organizations and militant Islam. Why?
Well compare the cost of deploying 40,000 American troops at the DMZ on the Korean Peninsula to the annual aide to Israel.
Mobilizing U.S. forces in Europe twice in the past century, once against Nazism and then against communism could be considered foreign aide (protection of Europe) and was the largest amount of money ever spent .. to date.
Americans, at that time understood that the fall of Europe could bring about the same fate in the United States.
This should help to explain the reason for American support of Israel against extreme Islamists.
The difference is that Israel has never asked for foreign troops to defend it!
(Another reason aide is supported by the American public.)
Israel has the only democratic country in the Middle East, and is the most effective ally in the entire world to halt the expansion of radical Islam.
Israel is our ONLY reliable ally in the Middle East.
It is the only nation that publicly declares it's support for America.
Remember the time when we were able to intercept a falling satellite and destroy it .. proving the validity of a missile defense system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(missile)
Guess who developed the technology to do that?
Israel!
Israel worked with the US in developing the Arrow anti-missile system.
They also worked with us on the Boost Phase Intercept program and the Tactical High Energy Laser program.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-00g.html
The high-energy laser beam mounted on an airplane can be used to knock out incoming missiles.
Have you heard of our "Secure Border Initiative?"
This is the latest attempt by our government to use technology to secure its borders, stop smuggling, and prevent illegal immigration.
(Well .. The Illegal Alien part? .. Not so much)
The project was open to bidders around the world.
Homeland Security gave the bidders total freedom to create new ideas of how to apply both new and old technology to secure the US borders.
Guess who won the rights to build it?
(Who knows more about protecting its borders against terrorist attacks?)
Kollsman Inc. won!
An AMERICAN subsidiary of Elbit, an Israeli company.
There are hundreds of other technological modifications and improvements in weapons systems that Israel has supplied to American armed forces, including those operating in Iraq.
What do our other, alleged allies in the Middle East offer us?
Look at another Middle Eastern country that the US bankrolls: Pakistan.
Pakistan's quality of life index is somewhere south of Haiti's.
But we still rewarded their government with a 45,000 percent increase in US aide since 2001 and is "Five Times" the amount that Israel receives!
Can you say for sure that Pakistan helped us to find Bin Laden or were they hiding him? (Billions going there)
Not that long ago, Bush canceled a $1 billion debt that Pakistan owed to the U.S. and instituted a new $3 billion military and economic assistance package to them.
Right now, at least 17 of the worst Sunni terror groups banned by the US and the UN have been allowed to operate openly in Pakistan.
These groups launch recruitment drives, using phony cover-names, and operate within sight of the Pakistan military.
Pakistan's unsecured nuclear arsenal becomes increasingly more vulnerable as terrorists continue to gain ground in Islamabad.
Did you know that the Pentagon considers Pakistan to be a greater nuclear threat to the world than is Iran?
So maybe the next time you want to question Why we give aide to Israel .. You might want to look a little closer .. Elsewhere!?
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