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In reply to the discussion: If Netanyahu stays in power, should the U.S. continue to provide military aid to Israel? [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)18. Only if they pay for it.
There is no free lunch.
If Israel wants US armaments and ordinance, they can pay for it...either in currency or by bartering concessions towards a lasting peace that allows us to eventually get off the hook for arming them.
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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