Since 1949, the US assistance to Israel has been almost $100 billion. Do you consider that to be "good and positive and wise and BIBLICAL"?
That's different. When you said "far less than half a percent", You were talking about the Federal Budget. In point of Fact, Government Spending on Foreign Aid is more than 0.6% of the Budget.
Though, even just looking at National Income, even at 0.22%, what we're talking about is approximately $13 Billion dollars (just counting direct Foreign Aid) Taxed away from 75 million American Families... That's like $170 Bucks per family!! Yeah, if some Armed Thief was taking an extra $170 Bucks a year off my person, I'd be thrilled if he would just STOP.
An extra $170 Bucks a year is either an extra $100,000+ in Term Life Insurance for my family, or maybe 3 nice Cajun Crawfish Boil Dinners up in OKC with my Wife at her favorite restaurant (including money for baby-sitters).
Are you Married? Do you realize how important that is? Protecting your Family financially, or else spending more time Dating your Wife? Can you even put a Price on that? $170 Bucks a Year is CHEAP! Eliminate all Foreign Aid TOMORROW, I say!!
It is miniscule.
Liar. Globalist-Interventionist Foreign Aid is literally ROBBING me of $170 Bucks a Year I's rather spend on my family... and that's only counting direct Foreign Aid -- not even considering all the other costs of an Interventionist Foreign Policy.
Since 1949, the US assistance to Israel has been almost $100 billion. Do you consider that to be "good and positive and wise and BIBLICAL"?
No, I consider it BAD and NEGATIVE and STUPID and the worst CURSE any Country has ever laid on Israel... unless you think that Welfare is GOOD for the Welfare Recipient, and are going to start defending LBJ's War on Poverty!!
Welfare... certainly including the International Welfare of "Foreign Aid"... ALWAYS enervates the independence and self-sufficiency of the Welfare Recipient.
PRIOR to the Introduction of massive US Foreign Aid, the brilliant and productive Israeli Economy was growing at a Rate of over 9% a Year -- AND they'd developed their own Atomic Bomb. AFTER the introduction of massive US Foreign Aid, the Israeli Economy slowed to a growth rate of less than 4% a year -- and now Israel is yanked around by the Foreign Aid purse-strings every time some US President wants to pressure them into a losing "peace deal" with the terrorist PLO (or worse, HAMAS!)
Now, I don't know you, "kabar" -- for all I know, you're some judeophobe Jew-Hater who actually wants Israel to be Destroyed. I don't know.
But I know this: US Foreign Aid provides Israeli Politicians with the grift and graft they need to maintain an Israeli Government Socialist Welfare State which is killing the otherwise-productive Israeli Economy.
I've shared a bottle of manischewitz wine with an IDF veteran of the Six Day War; have you? (I was young and arrogant, and asked him how many Arabs he'd had to kill; he bowed his head as if he was ashamed and admitted, "only three", as if 3-to-1 was a bad ratio). A Jewish warrior who came to America because he couldn't find enough economic opportunity in Israel itself.
Maybe you're happy about that. Maybe you want Israel to die on the vine.
But know this, "kabar": US Foreign Aid, with all its diplomatic strings attached, is a Socialist CURSE upon the Israeli Economy, and an Interventionist CURSE upon her independent Foreign Policy -- and God will Bless those who Bless Israel, and CURSE those who CURSE her.
If you seek to Curse Israel with Welfare-Dependency -- You will be Judged.
OP