Well....that’s a legtimate argument to make.....but it is still wrong. If if we end welfare for Israel (as well as everyone else) and let it do whatever it wants (my position), what is the likely result? It will finally be able to make peace from a position of independent strength. Folks here constantly complain that we are “dictating” to Israel but they undermine their own argument when they support welfare which, by its very nature, implies the right of the donor to dictate. If we end welfare for Israel (along with the Arabs), it will finally truly be a free AND independent nation which can “dictate” its own foreign policy in the region.