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Still wish the guilt from WW2 had just given the zionist Germany. Sure would have made life easier for the world.
Israel is just a little bigger than Harris county Texas. I cannot imagine what 5 billion a year would do for the economy.
Look up your history Israel came in existence in 1948. The US started giving funds to Israel in 1980. 32 years apart, thus one has nothing to do with the other.
Well, Netanyahu is really pushing for a deal to be done ASAP because he figured that he's not going to get a better deal later than now. Even though he's had problems with Obama - he isn't likely to get a better deal with Trump, whose public statements suggest that he would scale back, if not abrogate, bilateral and multilateral agreements with other countries, including Israel.
Bibi has also figured out that if Clinton is in office next year, she isn't going to reward him for blowing off Obama.
So it's gone from "we should support Israel because they're an ally" to "we need to have influence on Israel because they have nukes."
That's bull. Worse reason i've ever heard.
The United States existed long before there was an Israel. We won two world wars handily and became the most powerful country on Earth....all BEFORE 1948.
Nerlord, do you work for AIPAC. All these numbers?
I don't care about the percentage of MSA GDP
5 Billion dollars is a lot of money when 1/2 the school kids in the Houston area are on free lunch.
Don't they have some kind of national healthcare in Israel? How many kids are low income? How many kids speak the language?
The poverty level of Israel is ~21% compared to the US ~14% and you're comparing a country to a city. ALL Israelis pay a premium out of their paychecks in order for everyone to have health insurance. As to speaking the language, nearly 100%. Not like cities like Houston who pays for Spanish translators and multi-language signs in multiple locations. Yet you don't see a problem that Hispanics aren't required to learn English.
Pakistan gets 280 million in military aid from the US and that country is literally "terrorists 'r' us", yet everyone complains about the only democracy in the middle east getting military aid, nice.
Pakistan gets 280 million in military aid from the US and that country is literally "terrorists 'r' us", yet everyone complains about the only democracy in the middle east getting military aid, nice.
You forgot the other $933 million they get for economic aid that requires no accountability.
I vote they get the entire state of Florida and make it Israelida.
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