The Best of Reason: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?

Ending U.S. aid would give Washington less leverage in the Middle East. That's why it's worth doing.

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The Best of Reason: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?

This week's featured article is "What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?" by Matt Welch.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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[Gaear Grimsrud]

Best of Reason huh?

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Possibly the most honest recent article. Haven't read the content, don't care. But that subhead, aye, there's the liberaltarian angle we always knew Reason was capable of.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

The left is weird, they used to favor Israel; but then Israel became more capitalist and it was all over.

[Rob Misek]

Supporting Israel, the stolen shithole apartheid state, while they’re committing genocide in Gaza has cost every nation signatory to the UN genocide convention their credibility. They ALL stand as pariahs on the world’s stage.

Israel that stolen shithole apartheid state has received more aid most of it military from the U.S. than any other nation, 250 billion, since its theft in 1948 which started the last 75 years of conflict in the Middle East.

But that’s not anywhere near the total cost all the theft of Palestine.

The Balfour declaration was a promise of Palestine to Jews for bringing the anti war US into WW1 on the side of Britain that resulted in two more years of war and millions of lives.

Jewish Bolsheviks led by Lenin also overthrew the Russian monarchy in 1917 creating communism and the KGB How much has Russian communism cost?

In 1932 Jews were becoming impatient for their promised land, Palestine, and coordinated global boycotts against Germany to drive the world into WW2. How much did that cost?

In 1948 Jews finally stole Palestine referencing the Balfour Declaration and initiated the Middle East conflict that has raged and grown ever since. How much has that mess cost the world?

The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion BEFORE their holocaust in Gaza.

https://ifamericansknew.org/stat/cost.html

[minnix]

I don't get your comment. Is cutting off foreign aid a liberal agenda? I've always seen it as a libertarian ideal. Ron Paul spoke of it quite often.

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Better Reason Article: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Americans?

I'll hold my breath.

[Rick James]

We can talk about that, but first keep the borders open at all costs... you know, while we're thinking about it.

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I'm an open borders fanatic. I hate the cost and intrusiveness required to decide who can stay permanently (citizens), who can stay a while (tourists, and having to track them to enforce the temporariness), and who can't come in (icky foreigners).

But ... there's always a but ... there's a huge difference between open borders and what I call vacuum borders, sucking in as many people as possible with all the handouts and carveouts for people who wouldn't come here otherwise. People who have to spend their own money and rely on family and friends are an entirely different breed than the parasites governments attract.

If government weren't paying foreigners to come here, there wouldn't be any problems.

Government is always the problem.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Most illegal immigration can be explained by the strength in the unskilled job market.

https://www.cato.org/blog/us-labor-market-explains-most-increase-illegal-immigration

Basically, the more openings that there are in the job market, the more immigrants want to come here.

THAT is the real "vacuum" that draws migrants here. It's not welfare. Even Jesse's links show that a very large portion of the 'welfare' that immigrants receive comes in the form of school lunches for the kids. Sure it is a type of welfare I suppose, but it is not exactly the 'get paid to sit around and do nothing' type of magnet that one might imagine.

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I'll believe that welfare and free lodging is not a magnet the day newcomers turn it down as beneath their dignity.

[JeremyR]

If Israel gets overwhelmed, they will nuke the Middle East. I'm not sure how that is in our, or anyone's benefit. Maybe the Mullahs since they can go to Paradise with 1000 goats

[Rick James]

72 virgins. And from what I've seen on Tik Tok, that's going to be a special kind of hell.

[Bill Falcon]

for once I agree with Matt. Ike had the best US policy vis a vie Israel. After that it has been one long slide to AIPAC controlling US foreign policy and getting America into all sorts of wars which in the end were all about how Neocons thought how the middle east should be to protect their true allegiance-Israel.

Time to cut off funding for an ethno nationalistic Eastern European State (without a Constitution by the way) in Arab land.

[Bill Falcon]

How did old Israel get their nukes? Like the Rosenbergs their agents stole US nuclear know how and the lobby scared Presidents and DC to do nothing...some friend.

[VULGAR MADMAN]

How did the Soviets get their nukes?

[The Mysterious Edwin Dunkel]

The Best of Reason: What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Israel?

Heh. What if the U.S. cuts off its own dick? Which is a lot more bloody likely than its cutting off aid to Israel.

[Vondy]

The reason I'm a small "l" libertarian who focuses on civil liberties, fiscal prudence, and limited government as opposed to a big "L" libertarian is that I based my foreign policy notions on national interests, circumspect realpolitik, and the strategic long-game rather than doctrinaire's, dogmas, and purity tests. The problem with ideologues is that they are playing checkers when they should be playing chess.

[mtrueman]

"The problem with ideologues is that they are playing checkers when they should be playing chess."

Is it time for the US to offer a draw? I don't see a chance of winning this end game.