“Tons of aid” Fact checkers weighed the aid and it did not even come to 1 ton let alone multiple which could be called tons. This is False. (This would be a fact check if Trump had said this.)
Why does this question even come up? Israel has always been a strong ally and the only democracy in the region. This is just haltered spewed out against the Jewish people.
THat pallet of cash for Iran probably weighed about a ton.
Which falsity the answer affirms.
(This would be a fact check if Trump had said this.)
This is also true.
We support Israel because the US had the chance to stop the Holocaust at the 1938 Evian Conference ... and did nothing.
Then history presented America another opportunity to save Europe’s Jews at the 1943 Bermuda Conference ... and again it did nothing.
In 1939 some 900 Jewish refugees managed to escape Germany and boarded a German-flagged passenger liner, the MS St Louis, bound for the New World. They first made port at Havana but the Cubans only allowed the handful who were seriously ill or had US visas to disembark. So they set sail again hoping to make an American port but the US Coast Guard (acting on orders from the US Secretary of State, who probably was following instructions from FDR) warned them off from American waters. They sailed as far north at Nova Scotia but the Canadians refused them entry, too.
The St. Louis had no option but to return to Europe. A bit less than a third of her Jewish refugees were accepted by the UK but the rest settled in the European low countries, all of which were overrun by the Bundeswehr in 1940. And at least half of them died at the hands of the Nazis.
We support Israel because the Jews were kicked from pillar to post for almost two millennia. Victimized and persecuted everywhere they tried to settle, and when Hitler tried to exterminate them, we did too little, too late.
But now they once again have a nation of their own, for the Jews and by the Jews. And their history makes it obvious that this is their last best chance. They’ve been chased out of every country on earth and now they are (metaphorically) painted into this tiny little corner in the Arabian desert, the very place their forefathers settled 3000 years ago.
Israel isn’t so much a country as it is a lifeboat for the Jewish peoples. And events of the 20th Century make it clear that the Jews can’t count on anyone apart themselves to look after their security. For them, there is nowhere else to flee too. For them, this is “do or die.” If the modern nation of Israel should cease to exist, it is very likely that the Jewish people would as well.
There is no redemption for the lack of humanity we showed them during WWII but perhaps there can be some measure of atonement in our helping to assure the success of their new nation. We support Israel now — at any cost — because if we don’t, neither history ... nor God ... will forgive us.