Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jul 18 2020 07:05am)
Because they are an ally and a democracy which happens to be a tiny country surrounded by hostile neighbors - neighbors who have tried to wipe them off the face of the earth on multiple occasions.
Because they serve an important geostrategic role, being the major roadblock that stands in the way of a potential pan-Arabic nationalist movement unifying the countries of the region and turning off the oil tap for the rest of the world.
In the past, they also served an important geostrategic role during the cold war as a beachhead for NATO in the Middle East.
And since that's what you want to hear: yes, Jews are overrepresented among America's political and functional elites, which leads to the country being more supportive of Israel than would be justified on purely objective grounds.[/B
Yes that's what I want to hear.. So truth about the fact that we send them WAY more money than is necessary, where did the nationalism go?
Seems like the R is only Nationalist when its keeping the brown people out. We can spend whatever we need to pour money into white nations?
And to be honest the money in this particular distribution just looks like creating a constant state of rebuild so we can keep the status quo of military rebuild funding in perpetuity.
Money given by M. East
Afghanistan ($US 5 billion)
Israel ($US 3. 2 billion)
Iraq ($US 1. 3 billion)
Egypt ($US 1. 3 billion)
Syria ($US 541,500,000)
Jordan ($US 364,200,000)