Will Trump Cut Off Aid to Israel?

[usmbguest5318]

"Will Trump Cut Off Aid to Israel?"

To the extent that aid exceeds that which has been mandated by law (QME), one can only hope.

 

[strollingbones]

the us attempts to barter a peace in the me while supplying both sides with money thinking we can buy peace ?

 

[strollingbones]

Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year.

ccording to the report, the United States gave Israel $3.1 billion for Fiscal Year 2016 in direct bilateral military aid (also referred to as Foreign Military Financing or FMF). Congress also gave $487.6 million to "joint" U.S.-Israel missile defense programs (designed to protect Israeli territory from potential outside threats), bringing total military aid to Israel to $3.6 billion per year.

Put another way, American taxpayers give Israel $9.8 million per day (in 2016).

Over the last 20 years, the U.S. has slowly phased out economic aid to Israel and gradually replacing it with increased military aid

http://ifamericansknew.org/stat/usaid.html

if trump is truly against providing protection for other countries...this should be the first expense he could eliminate

 

[Fenton Lum]

• Israeli arms sales to Europe grew from $724M in 2014 to $1.63B in 2015
• Although the size of New Jersey Israel is one of the top 10 arms dealing nations in the world
• Israel produces 60% of all drones worldwide and sells to over 50 countries, at times selling to both sides of a given conflict, and Israel fueled the drones arms race between India and Pakistan

Palestine is an open air weapons testing and crowd control laboratory with Palestinians being used in the development phase; Gaza is a lab of mass destruction. US super bunker busters were supplied to the Israelis in 2014 and investors stock shot up; war is just business after all.

The “War in Terror” has been a boon to the industry, you’ve seen what amounts to advertisement in every “news” outlet, we are being whipped up into a frenzy once again. The industry also pioneers crowd control research on the Palestinians, and Israel is involved in the training of American forces and law enforcement. We see this in the militarization of our own police departments, Ferguson was but one example of how our system is prepping to Palestinianize our own population, and in fact Ferguson now has Israeli developed/sold skunk spray post the Ferguson events, although no incidents have yet been reported of use on American streets. It’s pretty clear that the Israeli occupation style power structure is moving toward the same in America; a warehousing of the poor in a post industrial age with diminishing living wage jobs and privatized for profit prisons complete with a return to convict leasing.

Much of the security monitoring and mass surveillance technologies are also produced in Israel and sold across the globe. “Targeted assassination” was invented in Israel, which Obama was quite fond of. Abu Ghraib torture methods? Israel.

The US and Israel are not allies. The US and Israeli arms dealers are allies, and war is the business they are both in. We are all collateral damage.

 

[oldsoul]

Have we given anything to health care providers in Israel?

You misread it and assumed it referred to all foreign aid.

What part of state funded don't you understand? We give money to Israel...they provide abortions. How come you can argue fungibility with Planned Parenthood but not them?

You went to the women's march didn't you?

He was the one wearing the vagina hat....

That doesn't really narrow it down much, does it?