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Showing Original Post only (View all)If Netanyahu stays in power, should the U.S. continue to provide military aid to Israel? [View all]
The man may have won, and he's going to spend the rest of his time in office(which may be the rest of eternity)stealing West Bank land, keeping the IDF in the West Bank, bombing Gaza and killing mainly innocent people, and in general destabilizing the region AND immiserating the people of Israel with perpetual austerity.
Is there any good reason to keep providing military aid to a country whose leaders demand that we underwrite the persecution of the people of Palestine unto their tenth generation? A country where change is now permanently impossible and history is over? Where there will never be another progressive, pro-peace government now, no matter what?
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Yes, we should keep providing the aid no matter what. | |
6 (16%) |
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No, we should stop providing the aid, at least until Netanyahu leaves office, since he is a purely negative figure | |
29 (78%) |
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Not sure. | |
1 (3%) |
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Other. | |
1 (3%) |
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If Netanyahu stays in power, should the U.S. continue to provide military aid to Israel? [View all]
Ken Burch
Mar 2015
OP
So long as Israel has socialized medicine for all, I don't see why we give them gun money. . .
Journeyman
Mar 2015
#8
There are a lot of uncounted ballots, yet--the soldiers' votes. They have no absentee ballots--
MADem
Mar 2015
#19
When leaders become callous about killing women & children in hospitals, schools, & shelters
think
Mar 2015
#21
If it's a choice between that and militarily subsudizing a permanently right-wing, pro-war regime
Ken Burch
Mar 2015
#30
I support a two-state solution, but the fact is, if Netanyahu stays in, its dead. Everything's over
Ken Burch
Mar 2015
#36
What is it exactly we give them in military aid? They have better tanks then we do.
Rex
Mar 2015
#28
In my opinion, there is no nation worthy of US support in the Middle East
Algernon Moncrieff
Mar 2015
#29
Why does it matter if he won? Herzog was a strong supporter of Netanyahu's bombing of Gaza
Chathamization
Mar 2015
#33
No and the US and its allies should also support regime change and economic sanctions against
anotojefiremnesuka
Mar 2015
#39
Herzog was only slightly better-Herzog as a person, though, wasn't the point.
Ken Burch
Mar 2015
#48
Aid should be contingent on moves toward two states not just Netenyahu leaving office.
betterdemsonly
Mar 2015
#62