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Originally Posted by aowen
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I do hate Israel, not all of the people in it, but certainly their policies and political officials. And if here you want to define bigotry as hating someone for the opinion that it's ok to kill and oppress people and steal land, yes I am bigoted against that opinion, because it's fucking insane and stupid.
Hmm, I wonder why we would need to give aid to the countries we fucked up? I am sure if you look at the allocation of said aid it would not be equal across the board. A bigger factor would be that what the aid is for. There is a big difference between military aid and the sharing of weapons (Israel), and aid meant for development and feeding people peanut paste. Israel just bought a bunch of choppers etc from us, essentially with our own money. Don't whitewash foreign aid, it makes you sound misinformed. Also, tons of money is funneled to Israel through sources outside the government. Little of this is relevant however, other than you saying we support other countries in the same way we support Israel, which is the stupidest counter-argument I have had the displeasure of hearing.
And to answer your hypothetical, I am sure many would be willing to do something like that. However, do you think I would agree with that decision? Do you think I agree with our funding of Mubarak, Saddam in the 80s, or any of the other crazies we fund?
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in terms of military aid, israel ranks 2nd behind afghanistan, who got $10 billion. israel just under 3. egypt 1.3. and even still, it hardly seems fair to disqualify economic aid when you're talking about "support". the point is that we throw billions at lots of bad guys. whether it's used to subjugate or keep the masses in check, either way it's going toward ugly regimes that do ugly things.
and the alternative is withdrawing support. that might sound good on the surface, but then what? that support is our in. egypt has to at least consider our opinion because they're on the payroll. eliminate that carrot and egypt doesn't disappear, they just stop giving a shit about what america thinks