Most Americans Say US Gives Too Much Aid to Israel by Grant Smith
Furthermore, aid to Israel has increased on average 30 percent annually since 1970. Israel now receives 9 percent of the entire U.S. foreign aid budget while benefiting from Egypt’s 5 percent share which is justified as maintaining the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace agreement. In Israel’s case, the figure understates actual aid levels since Congress is regularly tapped by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its donor network for additional military aid and joint program funding. Official figures also omit the value of intelligence sharing, such as the massive flows of raw intelligence on Americans approved by President Obama in 2009 and revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
That such an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the U.S. is giving too much aid to Israel may surprise many who are accustomed to seeing polls and surveys (including Chicago’s) incorrectly claiming overwhelming U.S. support for Israel. It should not be this way. The fault lies in flawed questions and lack of relevant context. Comparing American opinion between Israel, Hamas and Iran is about as useful as comparing U.S. aid to Mexico and Israel, though the former may comfort Israel affinity groups (which do a lot of their own proprietary polling) and congress members. Many important questions about Israel are never asked in U.S. surveys. Where results would likely produce a bad outcome, entire categories of polls – such as the World Values Survey in Israel – are almost never fielded.
Although no credible Western intelligence agency believes Iran currently has nuclear weapons – a majority – 58.5 percent of Americans now do according to IRmep’s Google Consumer Survey.
- DOJ Demands Immunity for Anti-Iran Group UANI – September 14th, 2014
- Death of the Masked Men – June 23rd, 2014
- Israel’s First US Espionage and Smuggling Network – May 29th, 2014
- Will the US Also Deny Visas to Israel’s Spies? – April 13th, 2014
- AIPAC’s Fed Candidate Stanley Fischer on a Warpath Against Iran – December 27th, 2013
via Anti-War
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If you want to cut foreign aid, how about cutting the funding for our enemies first?
We could save enormous amounts of tax payer money by stopping the funding of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, The “Palestinians”, and numerous other enemies of the US. Funding them is, after all, defined as treason in both the US Constitution and in US Code law, so putting a halt to it might be a good idea.
Then, maybe, it will be time to address the funding given to the only democracy in the region where the citizens do not regularly dance in the streets and hand out candy whenever Americans are killed.