Posted on 01/27/2011 6:32:30 PM PST by speciallybland
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul wants to end all foreign assistance, including aid to Israel.
Paul, a Republican newly elected in Kentucky, was on CNN Wednesday outlining where he would cut the $500 billion in government spending he says is critical to sustaining the U.S. economy. His focus was on the departments of energy, education and housing.
Interviewer Wolf Blitzer then asked about foreign assistance, asking if he wanted to end "all foreign aid." Paul said yes, and Blitzer asked him about aid to Israel.
"Well, I think what you have to do is you have to look," Paul said. "When you send foreign aid, you actually [send] quite a bit to Israel's enemies. Islamic nations around Israel get quite a bit of foreign aid, too.
"You have to ask yourself, are we funding an arms race on both sides? I have a lot of sympathy and respect for Israel as a democratic nation, as a, you know, a fountain of peace and a fountain of democracy within the Middle East."
Blitzer pressed, "End all foreign aid including the foreign aid to Israel as well. Is that right?" he asked.
Paul answered, "Yes."
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If we were serious about winning wars and defending our freedom, I’d be more willing to consider your argument.
As it is now, we’re not exactly in the grip of freedom or prosperity here at home. Our troops are ordered into battle but told to play nice and not offend anyone....
And for what? Importation of thousands upon thousands of Islamic refugees, a portion of which are happy to plot our destruction here at home. A president who invites them in then jokes about our being groped by his TSA as he pimps the next spending boondoggle. Allies that, hiding behind our sacrifice and defense, have been able to redirect their resources into building socialist utopias that are now failing but held up by American leftists as a model for our future.
I don’t think it’s working out so well for us.
NOT cut our National Security and support of our allies.
Right on. And the site owner has expressed similar views about Ron Paul, by the way.
This is one of Jim's comments from 2007:
Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!
Pay no mind to the Paulinistas. They call anyone who doesn't bow down and worship anything Paul a "neocon." They fling that accusation around with great regularity. Yet, they are to the left of us conservatives.
They respond to any criticism of Ron Paul (and now Rand) like a pack of yapping pomeranians.
We keep a few of them around for entertainment purposes. :)
We have no money.
We can no longer be the big brother/ sugar daddy to the world.
It was in an article in Arutz Sheva, I believe, but I didn’t save it.
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It’s up thread. Post #21.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/141692
US Aid to Israel Not Worth the ’Real Cost,’ Researcher Says
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel is paying through the nose for US aid and would better off without it, says a researcher for the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS).
American aid to Israel to the tune of $3 billion a year has been maligned by many U.S. conservatives and by the Arab world, but Israel actually loses more than it receives, according to JIMS analyst Yarden Gazit.
“U.S. aid is a net loss for Israel and Israel would be better off without it,” he concluded in his report, released on Wednesday.
Gazit explained that the conditions for the military assistance are designed to help the American military-industrial complex at the expense of the Israeli defense industry.
One condition of the American aid to Israel is that three-quarters of the grant be spent in the United States. “The ‘buy US’ requirement causes Israel to buy defense products at a high price, sometimes even products Israel may not need,” Gazit wrote. He calculated the loss to the Israeli defense industry at $600-750 million per year.
The use of American materials instead of those from Israel also hurts competitiveness in Israel and on the world market, according to JIMS. Not using domestic materials for the IDF “hurts Israeli industry’s reputation on the international market and may cause a loss of sales,” the report added.
JIMS forecasts that if Israel does not forfeit the American aid, it risks losing out on the growing Chinese and Indian market for Israeli products. Those countries will be under pressure to shop in the United States in light of American economic problems and its bloated federal budget.
Gazit also pointed out that Israel is forced spend more than $3 billion a year to retain a qualitative edge over Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, which also receives massive aid from the United States.
Every dollar granted to Egypt requires Israel to spend between $1.60 and $2.10 to maintain the balance of power, according to JIMS.
I agree. We are better off without your country’s aid, and thanks even so.
If we are an empire, then had better start acting like one.
Israel will be taken care of, right? As long as we do not make Israel our ENEMY, this is okay. It may be better for them to get us out of their business.
Well, at least he is better than his dad, who only wanted to end foreign aid to Israel.
Wrong! If we “trouble” our selves with Israel it becomes our “Rock of offense.”
You need to buy a Bible and read all of it; not just Pat Robertson’s page.
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Foreign aid to countries that are unfriendly to the U.S. should be cut off.
That is where we will end our agreement. I WILL NOT subscribe to the philosophy of turning our backs on our friends and allies. That mindset is suicide.
Nations come and go. Alliances shift, interests and necessities change. Right now the necessity to stave off an economic collapse of my country requires forsaking all others.
Can’t agree to leaving Israel in the dust, a lot of others yes.
Considering the most current current events, and if by forsaking all of our allies, including Israel, results in our being destroyed by our enemies, what then? Fixing our economic woes won’t matter much if we’re destroyed by our enemies first.
What's so sacrosanct about Israel? Those arguing giving a foreign country, any foreign country ,billions of dollars, should have a literal imminent, existential argument on hand as pertaining to the US.
I agree with you. If being a Tea Party supporter means having to support the Pauls than I don’t wish to be one.
Well you have to research your history on Israel for some answers.
Having said that, Israel is the only friend we have in that region even though that has caused a lot of problems.
Most of those problems there again having to do with Israel’s founding after W.W. II.
This link looks like it has a lot of information:
http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/arbiter/pRedirect?project=hrwonline&siteId=353&pageId=2263
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