Posted on 04/07/2025 4:39:19 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Vivek G. Ramaswamy - @VivekRammaswamy
It’s outrageous that Israel had trade barriers to begin with. Israel is the most subsidized nation by the U.S. and we have has sent nearly half a trillion in aid, yet they run a trade deficit with us. Where’s the return for American taxpayers? This isn’t partnership—it’s exploitation.
2:42 PM · Apr 7, 2025
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Why would Israel NOT tariff US goods when everyone else was doing it too? Btw…our subsidies to Israel are merely gifts to our Military Industrial Complex. Israel has to spend the money on US Armaments
Oy vey!!! How dare the Indo-Aryan goyim speak the truth!!!!
Friends and allies can be occasionally wrong too, whether on purpose or ‘by accident’.
When that happens, one needs to be bold enough to call them out on it, and discuss. Nothing personal, strictly business!
And we have Obama out there telling Putin he will do whatever Putin wants after he was reelected.
Sometimes, the U.S. is the friend an ally who goes wrong. How do you think Israel feels when the U.S. is simping to countries that want to destroy them like Iran and Russia? [Not that Israel can’t do the same thing a la Jonathon Pollard]
I’ve been to Israel on business a number of times, and it escapes me how or why the US would want to equalize trade with it to avoid a trade deficit.
What’s Israel going to sell us in the USA? Jaffa oranges, tourist junk, and religious trinkets?
And by help you mean?
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People and nations will do what we let them.
Exactly.
According to Grok:
“Prior to April 1, 2025, Israel did impose tariffs on some U.S. goods, though the scope was limited due to the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA) established in 1985. Under this agreement, the vast majority of U.S. goods—around 98%—entered Israel tariff-free. However, certain products, primarily agricultural goods, were still subject to tariffs. These included items such as apples, pears, almonds, cherries, walnuts, raisins, and some fresh vegetables like cauliflower and broccoli. The tariffs on these goods generated approximately 42 million shekels ($11.3 million) in annual revenue for Israel.
The FTA had progressively eliminated most tariffs over the years, but these remaining duties on specific agricultural products persisted until Israel’s decision to abolish them entirely on April 1, 2025. Before that date, the tariffs were a small but notable exception to the otherwise broad free trade framework between the two countries. Data from U.S. trade sources, like the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, consistently noted that while industrial products faced no tariffs, some agricultural exports from the U.S. to Israel encountered these residual duties, alongside occasional non-tariff barriers like sanitary and phytosanitary regulations. “
This is true. Israel had to watch from the outside during the Biden years, as America seemed to turn a blind eye to the Palestinian students taking over/ locking down several universities and threatening Jewish students.
The idiot doesn’t know that Israel and the U.S. had a free trade agreement that exempted 98 percent of U.S. goods from tariffs. The tariffs on the remaining 2 percent generated about $100 million a year. Not big money at all.
Israel would be much happier if the US did not provide any foreign subsidies.
The aid to Israel is used for defense against attacks also funded by the US.
If the US had not funded Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah, then October 7 and subsequent attacks would not have happened.
Each $1 billion to Iran has far more impact than $1 billion to Israel, because Iran and its proxies will not use surgical strikes.
Furthermore, Israel is an ally, and as part of Western Civilization, we have an interest in protecting Israel from annihilation by barbarians.
(Sometimes, the U.S. is the friend an ally who goes wrong.)
The friendship with Israel should have ended immediately after they blatantly killed our sailors aboard the USS Liberty while it flew a very visible US Flag.
Keep in mind Israel does a lot of things we want done, but gives us plausible deniability that we weren't involved.
How about Operation Opera in 1981, where the Israeli Airforce took out an Iraq nuclear facility. The U.S. benefitted from that - and the U.S. got to keep their hands nice and clean, and act like we didn't want it.
And what about the Stuxnet worm that took out Iran's nuclear program in 2010. I don't think Israel ever took credit, but the U.S. got to act like they did.
So, Israel does a lot for the U.S. in return for that aid.
LOL. Rama-scammy is now trying to appeal to the Candace Owens-Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes segment of the “right.” It won’t help you become Gov of Ohio, you DEI grifter!
By help I mean:
1.How about Operation Opera in 1981, where the Israeli Airforce took out an Iraq nuclear facility. The U.S. benefitted from that - and the U.S. got to keep their hands nice and clean, and act like we didn’t want it.
2.And what about the Stuxnet worm that took out Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. I don’t think Israel ever took credit, but the U.S. got to act like they did.
3. In 2015, Israel killed hundreds of ISIS terrorists. There is an implication the U.S. actually asked them to do it.
And how about this, Israel takes a lot of Middle Eastern venom. If Israel wasn’t there tomorrow, that would all be directed at the U.S.
Do you need more, because there are a lot more.
Also, did you want Iraq and Iran to have nukes?
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