Posted on 11/28/2018 4:06:31 PM PST by SJackson
Republican Sen. Rand Paul blocking codification of Obama-era military deal with Israel.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is blocking U.S. military aid to Israel.
Paul, who has previously called to cut defense assistance to Israel, recently put a hold on the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018, which codifies into law the $38 billion defense aid package for Israel over 10 years that was negotiated in the final days of the Obama administration.
A hold is a parliamentary procedure that allows senators to prevent a motion from reaching a floor vote.
The Senate passed the act in early August; the House of Representatives followed suit the following month. Now the Senate must pass a final version in line with the bill passed by the House.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has bought advertisements on Facebook identifying Paul as the main force blocking the act, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing what it called sources close to the effort.
Meanwhile, Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, sent out an Action Alert email blast on Monday to its supporters calling on them to flood Paul’s office with calls and letters encouraging him to support the legislation. CUFI also invested heavily in ads in Kentucky to target the senator’s constituents directly on the issue, the Free Beacon reported.
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“Whom do our politicians really work for?”
The defense contractors who will sell 38 billion worth of stuff to them.
BTW, the grammar police will tell you it’s “For whom do they work?” and write you a ticket for a dangling preposition.
Come on, Paul. We already have Flakey Flake grandstanding, making a jackass of himself. Don’t join him.
Rand Paul is the only Senator who puts regular Americans, their money and their Constitutional rights above all else.
Israel is also spending over 5.8% of its GDP on defense, and is headed to 6% which is really a lot for a country not (or at least not yet) pulling in big time petro $$.
What a turd.
God these pompous senators are the reason you get revolutions.
Perhaps a part of that 38 bil should include the Israelis designing the security devices for the southern border apparatus. And helping us man it. Eventually the northern border, too, because that is a problem potentially as big.
But I’d be obliged if you didn’t volunteer my dollars and cents for the cause of your religiosity.
I love my Sen Paul and I love Israel. That modern state of Israel should not be an idol and supported without moral and national interest concern.
The rotten fruit falls right close to its parent tree
Thanks, I knew I left it dangling somewhere.
Well, he “looks” as though he’s on the virtuous side. I view him with a very jaundiced eye.
Actually I have sent money personally to several different semi private defensive military forces in Israel.
I understand the tactical and strategic need for, and appreciate our best anti-islamic allies in the middle east.
You're free to be an atheist, but remember that next time you go quoting the Declaration of Independence.
Numbers 24:9
Genesis 12:3 New International Version (NIV)
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
That would be nice, except the US isn’t fighting a war against Muslim terrorism.
End ALL foreign aid.
I am very familiar with Washington’s caveats on foreign entanglements. His positions in that regard were admirable for his time, but the world has in effect shrunk to 1/10 its size in 1800, while its population has grown 10X its size in 1800. Meanwhile, an ideological divide has completely overtaken the world and it breaks out at least 3 ways: communism, islam, and the US Constitution.
There have been two all-out world wars; then the cold war and now a 4th stanza, state-sponsored radical islamic terror.
But you know all this and I’m not trying to be pedantic. I’m just saying that, if Washington were alive today, he would see that some exceptions to isolationism are in order.
It’s pretty simple, Israel is, by far, the world’s biggest welfare recipient. I don’t think Mr. Paul has any problem with Israel’s existence, and neither do I, but since I’m not an Israel obsessed evangelical I really don’t see why “G_d’s chosen people” shouldn’t rely on providence instead of US taxpayer dollars.
The fact that you put quotes around "G-d's chosen people" implies, to me at least, that you're saying G-d's so-called chosen people. Opinions vary on that.
And, it's my view that Providence is very much in evidence on Israel's behalf; I'm of the strange notion that I'd like to be on the same side as Providence, and I'd like our nation to be, too.
Opinions vary on all of that, too. But, since we're allies on the Constitution, I won't get all snot-faced over it,
Being un-chosen means you shut up and pay up!
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