[Elkiejg]

The annual donation is nearly 4 billion (from U.S. to Isreal).

I heard - on Rush I think and other media - that the Israelies are required BY LAW that they have to use a great deal of that $$ to buy goods etc., from the USA. Not a bad deal for us I'd say.

[henderson field]

If we give them the money and then they buy, let's say, jet fighters, why don't we just cut out the middle-man and give them the jet fighters. Are those free? Would anyone in the audience like to make a product for free and give it to a foreign government?

[FastCoyote]

"I heard - on Rush I think and other media - that the Israelies are required BY LAW that they have to use a great deal of that $$ to buy goods etc., from the USA. Not a bad deal for us I'd say."

I'm sorry, but that is an incredibly moronic statement. Say you give me a ten dollar bill, with the requirement that I must buy your watch with it, would you feel like an idiot at the end of that transaction? Or would you feel like a moron?

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Hint: it's a trick question.

[Commie Basher]

I heard - on Rush I think and other media - that the Israelies are required BY LAW that they have to use a great deal of that $$ to buy goods etc., from the USA. Not a bad deal for us I'd say.

By that logic, let's triple welfare payments to all current US recipients -- they'll spend it here. In fact, let's increase all entitlements to everyone, provided they spend it here.

Of course, no conservative would abide by that "logic."

I don't see why it suddenly seems to make sense with foreign aid.