Is it fair for us AMERICANS to give some of our tax money to support Israel?

Question

Every day the US gives Israel """15 million dollors""" of the tax money that we pay!!! This is NOT fair!
>did you know that ISRAEL has the highest "per capita" in the world
>did you know that the Israeli militery is ranked on of the top 10 strongest army forces

.....................................................................THIS IS THE POINT! THERE IS NO REASON FOR US AMERICANS TO WASTE OUR TAX MONEY TO ISRAEL!!!!!!!.........................................................

If it is about the conflict: israelis are no better than palestinians, 92 palestinians were killed in the past 10 days

the guy who answered number 6 is a MORON!!!

To #1: Actually the US gives ISRAEL nearly "6 billion dollars a year!"

and it had given it more than "200 billion dollors to the day"

Palestinians used to get 250 thousand dollars a day which is 1/50 of what israeli used to get........but, they still shouldnt get any money either

My friend is Muslim and I really respect him; I once asked him why dont the arab countries like Egypt and Jordan take the Palestinians. He said: "They are fine with not taking them in, and we are fine too; because we all know that if the arab countries take the Palestinians-in they will leave and there will be no one left to fight Israel. He said that in Islam Palestine which is known as the 'Holy Land' is the most precious place that all muslims must fight for and"

Answer 1

did you know we have given isreal over 3 billion dollars.

Answer 2

No offense, but this question is a little bit too friendly and polite- Its not about "fair" or "not fair," its more like: Is it F*** up for US gov to use our tax dollar and support Israel? Here are my responses to this super-controversial politic:

1. I knew the US-Israel tie several years ago already. Money is dirty, Jews are rich, and US Gov. are money-suckers.
2. The US is backing Israel because lots of rich Jews "invest" in the US political game, and they sure have done a good job and making sure US supplies them all the military weapon (as we kill anyone who messes with us to whatever degree we want) they need.
3. So fair or not, the Gov would only explain and tell you- the money is foreign aid. No Gov in this world give "foreign aid" to rich Jewish country. Selling weapons is a whole other story...
4. Ever wonder why the Arabs and Muslim hate us? Because Israel kills Arabs, kills Muslims, and who is helping their military? God bless America. Then again, its not about "freedom" in this world (according to Bush), its all about the Money $$$$$$. You really think Lebanon and their civilian deserves this?

*I'm a liberal American citizen with friends from all over the world and I do not discriminate or hate any Jews in general, but I absolutely hate what their Gov is doing in the middle-east. I condamn any group or government that supports military attack, threat from every countries.

Answer 3

You do realize that many jews supported this countries military during WWII....unconditionally. It is our way to ensure that their democracy succeeds. If you knew the history of the region you would realize that the palestinians fought for that land and lost....ultimately Israel owes them nothing, but are trying to give them a nation. In the last 50 years has one Arab nation taken in those Palestinians....NO!!! Why???? Because they hate the palestinians also, but hate the jews more.

Answer 4

Israel only has such a strong army because of american funding (alot of which are loans actually). The state was founded after WWII to give the Jews the power to defend themselves, exactly what do you think would happen to Israel if they were all on their own surrounded by muslim countries with anti-semitistic believes?

Answer 5

Actually, I can think of about 150 or so other countries we shouldn't be helping either. The amount of FREE foreign aid we provide to our enemies alone would make the US the richest nation, if we didn't give it all away. It's intoxicating the amount of funds we give to rouge nations, but as far as helping Israel, I'm all for it!......They haven't flown their airplanes into our buildings, bombed, kidnapped, or tortured our civilians abroad, or danced in the streets when we were attacked by terrorists.

Answer 6

No problem with me. Would rather give to Israel than to the National Endowment for the Arts and other non-essential programs.

We are the only major nation to support Israel wholeheartedly. All others either flip flop or hate them.

Answer 7

And of course, 10 times this amount is given to the Palestinians, almost all of which is stolen by the leaders.

All of Arafats fortune was foreign aid money stolen.

Answer 8

No matter how much Americans support racist regimes, they're doomed to die. That will only be recorded as a shame in US history. Take a look at this short history and analyze the post world war II mess.

Answer 9

We give money to both sides, Israel and Eygpt and Palistinans, its like a prize fight, they have to keep fighting or we won't give the money.

Considering the Jewish Interest own and Control our Federal Reserve Bank, not the our government, and they control all News Media as well as own it, I doubt anything will change.

Answer 10

I have read that in the news too. I don't know why we are giving that much support to Israel either, except that we're the ones who put them there. I think our tax dollars need to be spent here first. :(

Answer 11

The matter is not that America pays Israel and supports it. This is the wrong part! America should do something to stop this war. But you see Bush is the president......