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Re: Is Israel doing the right thing by remaining neutral?

By: clo2 in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 21 Mar 22 12:29 PM | 20 view(s)
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I have a problem with the amount of money we give them.

THE LARGESS OF U.S. ASSISTANCE TO ISRAEL

Through FY2020, the United States has provided Israel with $146 billion in military, economic, and missile defense funding. Adjusted for inflation, this amount is equivalent to $236 billion in 2018 dollars, making Israel the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. assistance since World War II.

Today, almost all U.S. assistance to Israel is in the form of weapons grants. Israel receives $3.3 billion annually in foreign military financing (FMF). It also receives $500 million for joint U.S.-Israeli research, development, and deployment of missile defense systems; however, these anti-missile systems almost wholly benefit Israeli military needs. In FY2021, the administration of former president Donald Trump requested $3.3 billion in FMF for Israel, constituting 59 percent of the requested global FMF budget. Israel receives more FMF than all other countries in the world combined (see figure 1).

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http://carnegieendowment.org/2021/05/12/bringing-assistance-to-israel-in-line-with-rights-and-u.s.-laws-pub-84503


Do something positive.


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Is Israel doing the right thing by remaining neutral?
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Mon, 21 Mar 22 11:28 AM 		Msg. 44993 of 54959

I don't know the answer.

Of course, there's no question about the moral aspect of the question: they should side with Ukraine against the barbarous Putin.

But there's also value in having a few potential mediators available. And Israel with its populations of Russian and Ukrainian Jews does occupy an interesting space. And Zelensky is himself Jewish, of course.

Which is more important, morality or utility? I dunno. There are so many questions of this sort where the alternative answers are assymetrical.

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