Dateline Israel. Please answer this question for me? Why do we borrow money to give it to countries?
This is about economics and foreign policy, \ not about religion and ethnicity. Please remember this as you read further. Please use your sense of intelligence. Don't make it into something it is not. The U.S. supports Israel and we are all great buddies. I get that. It is good to have allies. They were a bit less of a drag during the Cold War. But still, I can see how these things drag on. But then Mearsheimer and Walt(two highly respected political scientists)published a book titled The Israel Lobby and all of a sudden these two highly respected scholars are being called conspiracy theorists and fools. What is going on here? Then a Dutch TV show (posted to YouTube) summed up the controversy around the book very nicely. The U.S. gives Israel almost $3 Billion a year. Not loans. Grants. Free money. We don’t give that kind of money to anybody. And this has been going on for decades. This made some sense when Israel was just getting established after WWII. But now they are among the top 25 countries in GDP Per capita. Now, last time I checked we Americans have been running a pretty big deficit. That means the government has to borrow money to make up the difference. So we borrow money (and pay interest) so we can give it too Israel (not a loan) when they don’t even need it in the first place. Personally, I don’t like running a deficit for anything. If we happen to run a surplus, I would have no problem helping out a truly poor country. But to borrow money to give it to Israel makes absolutely no sense. We are on the verge of a recession and this is our policy? By the way, there are no American bases in Israel.There are bases in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But not Israel. Why not? Have we ever seen their bases?
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AMEN. I've been saying this for years. My personal feeling as to why they do it, 2 reasons: 1 - They are paying Israel to stay on our side. 2 - As the Christian Bible states that Jesus was born in Israel, perhaps they feel some connection to the "Holy Land" Be religion fact or fable, it could be a reason why some defend it.
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Basically, it all forms around 1 verse in Revelations. When the Jews own Israel, Jesus will come again. That's the main basis of Christian Zionism, and those guys hold quite a few cards in the political process.
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look at all the money that is being wasted in the wars some body should be investigating our government for there wasting
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We give money we don't have to everybody, why just pick on Israel? As far as I am concerned, we should just stop giving money away period.
