U.S. Tax payers Paid More For Israel's Defense Budget Than Israelis

[ZiprHead]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-taxpayers-paid-more-to-israeli-defense-budget-than-israelis/37299/

American taxpayers give Israel over $3 billion per year (over $8 million per day), more than to any other nation, despite the fact that Israel is smaller than New Jersey and is in the top 30 richest countries in the world.

According to the Congressional Research Service, Israel is given this money in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year. Americans then pay interest on money they have given to Israel, while Israel makes interest on it

If the costs of the Iraq war, which was largely pushed by Israel partisans in the Bush administration, were added into the equation, the American tax money on behalf of Israel would quite likely dwarf the amount paid by Israeli taxpayers.

Some top economists predict that the cost of the Iraq war will be $3 trillion.

 

[Derec]

Mintpress? Really? That's an anti-Israel rag ran by a pro-Assad, pro-Iran antisemite by the name of Mnar Muhawesh. The author, Alison Weir, is a well known rabid antisemite.

 

[repoman]

The correct term is Judeoskeptic.

 

[ZiprHead]

Mintpress? Really? That's an anti-Israel rag ran by a pro-Assad, pro-Iran antisemite by the name of Mnar Muhawesh. The author, Alison Weir, is a well known rabid antisemite.

Weir traces her interest in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to the autumn of 2000, when the Second Intifada began. At the time she was "the editor of a small weekly newspaper in Sausalito, California", and noticed that news reports on the conflict "were highly Israeli-centric". Wanting access to "full information", she "began to look for additional reports on the Internet". After several months, she decided that "this was perhaps the most covered-up story I had ever seen" and quit her job in order to visit the West Bank and Gaza, where she wrote about her encounters with Palestinian suffering and with the "incredible arrogance, cruelty, selfishness" of Israelis. After returning to the U.S., she founded If Americans Knew.[3][non-primary source needed] Weir's official biography says her activism draws on her history of involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement, her work in the Peace Corps, and her childhood in a military family.[4]

Weir publishes a column at the Unz Review,[5] and other sites. Weir's writings include exhortations to action. In an article, she wrote: "Every generation has a chance to act courageously – to oppose the kind of injustice and unthinkable brutality that is going on in the Middle East right now. Or to avert our eyes, and remain silent."[6]

Weir has called Israel a "violently imposed, ethnically based nation-state",[7] and has written that "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is central to grave events in the world—and in our nation—today."[8]

 Alison Weir (activist)

I guess if telling the truth about Israel's actions makes one an anti semite, so be it.

 

[Harry Bosch]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-taxpayers-paid-more-to-israeli-defense-budget-than-israelis/37299/

If the costs of the Iraq war, which was largely pushed by Israel partisans in the Bush administration, were added into the equation, the American tax money on behalf of Israel would quite likely dwarf the amount paid by Israeli taxpayers.

Some top economists predict that the cost of the Iraq war will be $3 trillion.

Well, we give more foreign aid to Afghanistan ($4.89B) and Iraq ($3.36B).

 

[Derec]

 Alison Weir (activist)

As I said, rabid antisemite. She went to Israel and Palestinian territories during the so-called "Second Intifada", or a wave of Palestinian terrorism unleashed after that miserable cunt Arafat rejected the 2000 Camp David peace offer. Only an antisemite could side with Palestinians seeing all the terror they have been causing in which hundreds of Israelis had been murdered.

 

[ZiprHead]

 Alison Weir (activist)

As I said, rabid antisemite. She went to Israel and Palestinian territories during the so-called "Second Intifada", or a wave of Palestinian terrorism unleashed after that miserable cunt Arafat rejected the 2000 Camp David peace offer. Only an antisemite could side with Palestinians seeing all the terror they have been causing in which hundreds of Israelis had been murdered.

Complaining about her being one-sided while being one-sided. Brilliant!

 

[laughing dog]

I think including the expenses of the Iraq war is inappropriate.

It is not automatically anti-semitic to question our aid amounts to Israel.

 

[Half-Life]

I think including the expenses of the Iraq war is inappropriate.

It is not automatically anti-semitic to question our aid amounts to Israel.

It is when Israel is the only country that gets criticized for getting aid. When people found out aid was suspended to Ukraine they lost their minds. My hunch is that if aid was suspended to Israel, you guys would be cheering, hooting, and hollering.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

We have a trillion dollar annual deficit. So we only borrowed money for them.

 

[laughing dog]

I think including the expenses of the Iraq war is inappropriate.

It is not automatically anti-semitic to question our aid amounts to Israel.

It is when Israel is the only country that gets criticized for getting aid.

Utter nonsense.

When people found out aid was suspended to Ukraine they lost their minds. My hunch is that if aid was suspended to Israel, you guys would be cheering, hooting, and hollering.

As usual, your hunch is wrong. Congressionally appropriated aid should not be suspended as long as the recipients are meeting any and all legislated requirements.

 

[Derec]

Complaining about her being one-sided while being one-sided. Brilliant!

I am not the one who is one-sided! At least not any more than the reality of the situation is.
It is a fact that the violence of the early 2000s was because Palestinians started the 2nd Intifada. Weir wants to blame Israel for daring defend themselves against these islamofascist pieces of shit!

We have a similar thing going on now. Palestinians from Gaza have been shooting rockets against Israeli civilians and sending explosive-laden balloons (often using condoms for the purpose, when they would be much better off using them for their intended purpose and not having 5-10 children each!) across the border, and Israel responds by attacking terrorist targets. There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides. Understanding that does not make me "one-sided".

 

[Derec]

It is not automatically anti-semitic to question our aid amounts to Israel.

It is when US aid to Israel is selectively attacked but say US military aid to Egypt or Ukraine is not. Singling out Israel like that is antisemitic.

Then you have to consider this article in light of other crap written by Weir and/or published by MintPress. For example this piece of antisemitic paranoia.

 

[Bronzeage]

Mintpress? Really? That's an anti-Israel rag ran by a pro-Assad, pro-Iran antisemite by the name of Mnar Muhawesh. The author, Alison Weir, is a well known rabid antisemite.

Does this mean the quoted figures are inaccurate?

In an age when European countries are being pressured to pay "their share" of defense costs, is there a problem with expecting any other nation to do the same?

 

[Half-Life]

Mintpress? Really? That's an anti-Israel rag ran by a pro-Assad, pro-Iran antisemite by the name of Mnar Muhawesh. The author, Alison Weir, is a well known rabid antisemite.

Does this mean the quoted figures are inaccurate?

In an age when European countries are being pressured to pay "their share" of defense costs, is there a problem with expecting any other nation to do the same?

Maybe what we should do is use all the defense money we give to other nations to fix our nation, right? Very progressive IMO. No more complaining about billionaires.

But then the other nations would be all war torn and people would be demanding regime change, which is very regressive IMO.

What do we do?

 

[laughing dog]

It is not automatically anti-semitic to question our aid amounts to Israel.

It is when US aid to Israel is selectively attacked but say US military aid to Egypt or Ukraine is not. Singling out Israel like that is antisemitic.

Utter nonsense. Nothing requires anyone to exoress opinions on every related subject. Someone can think Israel us wealthy enough to afford todefend itself but neither Ukraine or Egypt are (I do not hold that opinion).

 

[Patooka]

If a country has nukes, asking for military aid seems a bit rich.

 

[Jayjay]

The aid to Egypt is mostly to help them keep the muslim brotherhood down and the country in good terms with Israel, so that's basically aid to Israel as well. But regarding Ukraine, it's not an entirely false point from Trump that EU should pitch in a bit more. It's Europe's back yard anyway.

 

[Bronzeage]

Mintpress? Really? That's an anti-Israel rag ran by a pro-Assad, pro-Iran antisemite by the name of Mnar Muhawesh. The author, Alison Weir, is a well known rabid antisemite.

Does this mean the quoted figures are inaccurate?

In an age when European countries are being pressured to pay "their share" of defense costs, is there a problem with expecting any other nation to do the same?

Maybe what we should do is use all the defense money we give to other nations to fix our nation, right? Very progressive IMO. No more complaining about billionaires.

But then the other nations would be all war torn and people would be demanding regime change, which is very regressive IMO.

What do we do?

Actually, the question was, are the numbers correct, even if they are presented by a "well known rabid antisemite." So far, I haven't seen anyone dispute the figures.

 

[ZiprHead]

Colin Powell leaked emails: Israel has '200 nukes all pointed at Iran', former US secretary of state says

Israel has 200 nuclear weapons, according to the latest revelation hidden in a cache of Colin Powell's leaked emails.

The former US secretary of state revealed the information in an email he sent to a colleague last year, which was obtained by the hacking group DCLeaks and published on LobeLog, a foreign policy blog.

Israel has a policy of nuclear ambiguity and has never talked about the type or size of its weapons, even if it has been an “open secret” that the US ally is well armed.