End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2019-08-20 at 13:37:12 )

End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else by Jacob G. Hornberger

Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are calling on the United States Congress to reevaluate United States foreign aid to the Israeli government.

Their reason?

Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied entry into Israel for the two of them, owing to their public support of the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions movement, a global protest against the Israeli governments longtime mistreatment of Palestinians.

Omar stated:

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We give Israel more than $3 billion in aid every year.

This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region and the only democracy in the Middle East. But denying a visit to duly elected members of the United States Congress is not consistent with being an ally, and denying millions of people freedom of movement or expression or self-determination is not consistent with being a democracy.

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Unfortunately, however, Ms Omar and Ms Tlaib, like the rest of their Democratic counterparts, just do not get it.

In fact, neither does their nemesis, President Trump, and his Republican cohorts.

Not only should the United States government stop foreign aid to the Israeli regime, it should stop it for every other regime in the world.

For one thing, consider that the Donald Trump administration is spending $1 trillion this year more than it is bringing in with taxes.

The difference?

He is borrowing it, thereby adding another trillion dollars to the $22 trillion dollars in federal debt that is already hanging over United States of American taxpayers.

In fact, just recently President Trump and his Democratic cohorts in the United States Congress struck a mutually beneficial deal in which they agree to lift the debt ceiling to permit them to saddle United States of American taxpayers with even more debt and, even worse, agreed to extend the debt ceiling until after the presidential election so that it would not be an issue for either party.

What better place to slash spending than by ending United States foreign aid to every regime that is on the United States dole?

Yet, not one single Democrat or Republican thinks on that level.

They just want to use foreign aid as a way to force foreign regimes to bend to the will of the United States Empire.

After all, let us face it: United States foreign aid has nothing to do with helping the "poor, needy, and disadvantaged" in foreign countries.

Instead, it has everything to do with bribery, blackmail, and extortion.

The money or military armaments (or both) is given to foreign regimes with the aim of making them dependent on United States foreign-aid largess, sort of like when a heroin dealer hands out free samples to prospective customers.

Then, once the regime becomes dependent on the dole, it is expected to do what the United States Empire wants it to do.

If it refuses to do it, there is a threat of an immediate cutoff of its dole.

That usually is enough to get the foreign regime in line, especially because many foreign officials use the money to line their pockets and Swiss bank accounts as well as those of their bureaucratic and military-intelligence cohorts within the regime.

A good example of this phenomenon occurred in 1990.

Yemen, which was one of the Empires dole recipients, voted in the United Nations against the Empires request of the United Nations to authorize the use of military force to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power.

United States Secretary of State James Baker told Yemeni officials that their vote would be the most expensive vote they had ever cast. The United States Empire then proceeded to cut off its foreign aid to Yemen.

If Netanyahu suddenly relented and permitted Ms Omar and Ms Tlaib to be allowed to enter Israel without restrictions, there is little doubt that the two congresswomen would cease calling for a reexamination of foreign aid to Israel.

And even if they persisted in calling for such a reexamination, all that they would want to do is redirect the money to their favorite regimes.

The most important argument against foreign aid is the moral one.

The United States Empire forcibly takes money from United States of Americans - the people who have earned it - and gives it to foreign government officials, to whom it does not belong.

United States of Americans, like everyone else in the world, have the moral right to keep their own money and decide for themselves what to do with it.

Abolish foreign aid to Israel and to everyone else.

It is the morally right and fiscally responsible thing to do.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!