Why should we continue to give Israel billions in aid each year? (Israeli, Barack Obama)
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In general I agree the USA should be taking care of its own people before sending financial to any country in the world. But since the USA is obligated to send the money to Israel and Egypt under the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Agreement for the USA to stop sending this aid could further destabilize the region which could effect American interests.
How could those few billion dollars we give to Egypt and Israel destabilize the region?
How could those few billion dollars we give to Egypt and Israel destabilize the region?
That's ridiculous.
You do know the Egypt has been receiving tons of military equipment just like Israel over the past 34 years and now it's in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, don't you? Unlike Israel, Egypt has been stockpiling theirs. Also you do know where the Suez Canal is and in who's hands it's currently in, don't you?
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Originally Posted by desertdetroiter
How could those few billion dollars we give to Egypt and Israel destabilize the region?
That's ridiculous.
If you stop helping Egypt, its economy could get worse and would probably increase anti-American and anti-Israeli feelings. So I don't think it is ridiculous at all.
Well, I'll admit, it's easier to bash foreign aid to Israel, than to nations that actually need and appreciate our aid dollars.
Agreed! Like sending aid to Pakistan. They appreciated it and rewarded us with hiding Bin Laden. Muslim Brothers in Egypt also show us their love. (As you lnow, love can be expressed in many ways).
You do know the Egypt has been receiving tons of military equipment just like Israel over the past 34 years and now it's in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, don't you? Unlike Israel, Egypt has been stockpiling theirs. Also you do know where the Suez Canal is and in who's hands it's currently in, don't you?
Tell me something i don't know.
Egypt can't defeat Israel in a war regardless of how much crap they're stockpiling. So please, stop making excuses for Israeli aid. They don't need it.
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Originally Posted by Chava61
If you stop helping Egypt, its economy could get worse and would probably increase anti-American and anti-Israeli feelings. So I don't think it is ridiculous at all.
So the most powerful nation in the world should submit to blackmail because the Egyptians can't get their thing together?
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Don't you think it's worth something to have influence on at least one side of the Suez Canal?
Barack Obama...
"The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance -- it's injustice.
Let's be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel's citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel's children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map.These facts cannot be denied."
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Israel has a booming economy - why should we subsidize them? They also continue to steal land from and murder Palestinian citizens with our aid. We are accomplices in their moral crimes against humanity. The award winning documentary '5 Broken Cameras' on Netflix tells the story of the criminal treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis.
its simple actually,
we're paying Israel to NOT slaughter every muslum in the area.
muslims are peace-loving people.
Syrian Civil War, 1 million refugees, 80,000 dead and counting
Iran Iraq War, 1 million dead
Lebanese Civil War, 250,000 dead
Algerian Civl War: 300,000 dead
Bangladesh Civil War: 500,000 dead
Black Sept., Jordan's King Hussein murders, expells 80,000 Palestinians
Syrian army kills 20,000 Syrians at Hama
Iraq gases hundreds of thousands of Kurds
1400 year conflict between Sunnis and Shiites
Fratricide between Hamas and Fatah
Syria/Hizballah assassinate Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri
Alexis de Toqueville...
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I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.
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