Israel/Palestine

Orrex

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5. Prioritizing foreign aid over domestic spending *does* call one's loyalty into question

Wed Sep 21, 2016, 07:57 AM

Sep 2016

No, it's not a slam dunk. But when the GOP makes the argument that "we can't afford" a few million for this or that domestic program and then promptly hands a no-strings-attached check for $38B to a foreign power, then a third-party observer might be forgiven for concluding that the GOP holds Israel in higher esteem than the US.

If I told my wife that we can't afford to pay the $100 gas bill this month but then went out and spent $100 on sports bobbleheads, does it seem unlikely that she'd question my priorities?

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Senators want to change massive new Israel aid package [View all] Eugene Sep 2016 OP

Why not? atreides1 Sep 2016 #1

"more loyal to Israel then they are to this country" oberliner Sep 2016 #3

Prioritizing foreign aid over domestic spending *does* call one's loyalty into question Orrex Sep 2016 #5

You don't see accusations of "being more loyal to Egypt than to the United States" though oberliner Sep 2016 #7

I agree, and we should hold all aid recipients to that standard Orrex Sep 2016 #9

Well, it costs money to murder Palestinian civilians Orrex Sep 2016 #2

The US police force appears to have mastered the art of murdering civilians oberliner Sep 2016 #4

You won't see me defending the police for murdering civilians Orrex Sep 2016 #6

Understood oberliner Sep 2016 #8

I have to say that you're completely correct in that assessment Orrex Sep 2016 #10

I'm insulted. aranthus Sep 2016 #11

The cons are nauseous leftynyc Sep 2016 #12