What if conservatives who preach small government wake up and realize that our interventionist foreign policy provides the greatest incentive to expand the government?" - Ron Paul, before the U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 12, 2009. It baffles me how conservatives who rail against the excess of big government, in particular its mismanaging of our money, still have this benevolent view of government when it comes to our meddling abroad.
JERUSALEM -- The diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Israel has sent a tremor through their alliance, but one key part of the bond seems virtually untouchable: the roughly $3 billion a year in U.S. military aid. Israel's harsher critics often call for aid cuts to twist Israel's arm. Yet amid the uproar of recent days over plans to build 1,600 new homes for a Jewish neighborhood in a disputed part of Jerusalem, there has been no serious talk of using aid as a club.
Opaque and fungible assets freed up by massive yearly US foreign aid to Israel are pouring into settlement development and infrastructure building designed to partition key Palestinian territories and annex others to the state of Israel. US nonprofits are directly and indirectly financing the coordination of illegal settlement building, encroachment, and violence against Palestinians. Recently disclosed charitable contributions from US lobbyist Jack Abramoff laundered to finance violent armed Israeli activity in the Palestinian territories is only the tip of the iceberg. Considered against the findings of a groundbreaking new study revealing the causes of suicide terrorism, Americans must confront a disturbing question: "Are tax exempt donations from the US generating terrorist retaliat...
The parade of media commentators, expert analysts and government officials who routinely spin our Middle East policies - with Israel in the role of (entitled) victim - is a sad commentary on the current (pay to play) state of American politics and journalism. Such preferential treatment for the tribes if Israel, in contrast to how we've dealt with other Middle East tribes, also compromises America's security and its (diminishing) reputation in a nation that practices what it preaches. I agree with freshman Sen. Rand Paul: It's time to end foreign aid to the wealthy state of Israel. Not only can we no longer afford it - more than $3 billion a year, but Israel, unlike the (formerly stabilizing) nation of Egypt, has done little to earn our increasingly hard-earned crash. (Far from fosterin...
NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC applauded a group of Democratic Senators who authored a letter to leading House Republicans stressing the critical importance of continued aid to Israel. The letter, addressed to Rep. Hal Rogers, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, and Rep. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget, urged them to reject the call by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky that the U.S. "halt all foreign aid, including its financial aid to Israel. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO)
Fortunately, Americans don't need [Barack Obama] to "speculate" on what former President Jimmy Carter already confirmed on May 25, 2008: Israel possesses an arsenal of at least 150 nuclear weapons. Why does Obama trot out the discredited policy of "strategic ambiguity"- in which Israeli and VS. officials officially refuse to confirm or deny the existence Israeli nuclear weapons - at this early moment? For one reason alone: to break the law. The 1976 Symington Amendment prohibits most U. S. foreign aid to any country found trafficking in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside international safeguards. Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proiiferation Treaty (NPT). If US. presidents complied with the Symington Amendment, they would not deliver yearly aid packages to Israel...
[...] every year the U.S. gives Israel its entire $3 billion-plus allocation up front, at the beginning of each fiscal year (Oct. 1), and requires virtually no accounting of how that money is spent. [...] while all other recipients of U.S. foreign aid are required to purchase only American goods and services with those funds, Israel is allowed to spend 26.3 percent of its aid on products made in Israel.
JERUSALEM (MCT) -- Israel faced a diplomatic firestorm Monday over its deadly attack against a protest flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Foreign leaders and protest organizers accused Israel of using excessive force in the raid in international waters, but Israel defended its actions, saying that soldiers were ambushed with knives and metal bars, as well as handguns wrested from the commandos.
Guessing that he would bolt the Democratic Party came after the state party convention May 20, when lieberman (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 17%) was challenged for renomination by cable television tycoon Ned Lamont, great-grandson of J.P. Morgan and Company Chairman Thomas Lament (who helped negotiate the Treaty of Versailles after World War I). Behind the scenes, with help from his brother Marty, a Missouri businessman and leader in the American Jewish community, Hecht helped persuade Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) to change and support U.S. aid for Israel.
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