Here Isreal...have 3 billion of our dollars a year

3 Billion dollars. Congress has passed a memorandum to fund Isreal with over 3 BILLION dollars a year. But even worse is that American citizens can be prosecuted for boycotting Isreal. How Chinese and Putin of you Congress. Im no fan of Isreal, but I can see the need to protect them. However, banning free speech tells me a lot. I personally would like to see foreign aid banished....it just goes to feed the war machine. I betcha all that money goes into buying more weapons which means Iran has to keep up by going for a Nuke.


Sigh.....



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a reply to: lakenheath24

You get most of it back anyway and funding the Israeli military is much cheaper than doing everything they do yourself.
And keep in mind, a large portion of this funding is linked to the Egypt-Israeli peace treaty of 1979. Egypt recieved 1.4 billion US-$ in FY19 under the treaty as well.

It's not a good move to link it to efforts combatting the BDS, i'd agree with you there.

a reply to: mightmight

I don't know if it's correct to say "we" get most of it back

But the politicians do get a piece thanks to the Israeli lobby, which helps to explain their continued support

a reply to: lakenheath24

But even worse is that American citizens can be prosecuted for boycotting Isreal.

Do you have a link for this claim? I didnt see anything about this in the article you provided in your OP.

I did find this though...

The government’s new procurement guidance, now known popularly as the ‘boycott ban’, is a disturbing attempt to thwart BDS efforts by using scary language, but it does not ban boycotts.

source

a reply to: lakenheath24

Unreal isn't it, a nation thats suppose to be all about god and unmaterialistic godly qualities needs that kinda money and Nukes (oops).

You mean Lockheed gets most of it back.


a reply to: mightmight

Quoted right from the OP article


"provisions broadly supported by members of both parties, including the aid, but it also included a plank that would have let state and local governments punish Americans for boycotting Israel. "


a reply to: Alien Abduct

Well snap...i did not know this but it is illegal to boycott isreal in 27 states.
www.hrw.org...

Yet its ok for people to boycott a conservative bakery?

Something aint right with this.

a reply to: lakenheath24

It should be pretty evenly split between Boeing and Lockheed atm

But don't they pay taxes and dividends and provide high-income jobs?
And you don't have to pay to operate all those shiny toys, so whats not to like?

It seems like you have a problem with their decision...
I think there could be worse things we are spending 3 billion dollars on a year.
3 billion is not even that much.
I mean its not like that kind of money could help starving people or anything...

I humbly accept your criticism.. That money could go to a much needed pay raise for Congress. I would boycott the government but i might get arrested.



a reply to: MeiPseudonym

a reply to: lakenheath24

So if a shop doesn't stock Israeli goods or a person doesn't buy jaffa oranges or is seen reading the barcordes of goods in shops they can have a business closed down or be sent to court? That's crazy.

Jesus aint cheap to protect. O wait, they dont believe in Jesus. Yet my Baptist old man gets mad at me when I point that out. Hmmm.


a reply to: CthruU

They send a lot more to countries that chant death to America so I'd say it's a good investment for once

a reply to: lakenheath24

Jesus was born and died a Jew spoke Hebrew and never saw a Christian in his life.
I wonder how your preacher feels about that

Dunno...i quit going to cult.. err church a long time ago.


a reply to: dashen

I know...its likr the Rothchilds funding both sides aint it..



a reply to: dashen

a reply to: lakenheath24

The Rothschilds are just the bankers. The royalty behind them that uses them as a shield are the real Puppet Masters

Israel runs the u s...

the State department is all Israeli....flags on their doors and desks

JUST the bankers!!!! Dear god man, they are one in the same! But anyway...getting iff topic.

I cannot believe the ACLU hasnt addressed this issue. Isreal isnt a religion ffs.


a reply to: dashen