Feiglin: Immoral for Israel to take US aid, US may not survive Obama
“I’m totally against this [US foreign] aid [to Israel],” Feiglin told The New American, a relatively unknown publication affiliated with far-right American politics. “It cannot be when, first of all, the Americans are standing in line like two or three miles in the snow to get a job. To get any kind of aid from America when, economically, we are in a much, much better position doesn’t look moral to me.”
Furthermore, American aid “is not in our favor, not economically, not militarily, not in any way,” the MK told the magazine’s Alex Newman. (He gave the interview last month in the Knesset, but it only appeared on Monday.) “This aid serves psychological purposes, not anything else. We are talking about 1.5 percent of our income, of what Israel is producing — we can definitely deal without it.”
Since World War II, Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid, having received a total of $118 billion, most of it in the form of military assistance. Currently, Washington supports Israel with about $3 billion per year.
Newman asked Feiglin about former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s argument that the US administration is using the aid “to obtain leverage over the Israeli government when Israel should be thinking about its own interests rather than what Washington thinks.”
So is Feiglin a Ron Paul supporter? I think he'd say that's none of our business. On the other hand, he certainly doesn't have a lot of confidence in the Obama administration's stewardship of the American economy.Feiglin responded, “I 100 percent agree.”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen with America — I’m more worried about America than about Israel,” he told the magazine. “I know it sounds maybe a little bit crazy. However, we are a nation of 3,300 years. We have our little ups and downs over our history, but it seems like physically we are stronger than ever.
“History shows that big empires fall, and it doesn’t look like America today is on the rise,” he continued. “So there’s more — from my historical understanding — there’s more to worry about now for America than about Israel. I think — and again, excuse me for saying so — I think America needs Israel not any less than Israel needs America.”
Ouch.Feiglin said he is aware that his comments sound “a bit funny” — though not because the world’s last remaining superpower is also the world’s strongest economy, but because the US has so many more inhabitants than Israel. “But even though I’m aware of the numbers, I’m still saying what I’m saying because I think that Israel carries moral weight, and also technological and strategic and territorial weight, that is much bigger than its size.”
Labels: Moshe Feiglin, Ron Paul, US aid, US economy, US foreign aid, US-Israel relationship
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:10 AM
3 Comments:
Sooo.... he thinks it's immoral to co-develop and field a bunch of the military systems like the recent Iron Dome that are protecting Israel and a bunch of other countries? That's what the traditional "aid" is. With a population of 7 mil, does MK Feiglin think Israel can tax enough to produce those systems without allied teams? Well, I like the teams. Development is very expensive.
But MK Feiglin is right in another sense. He doesn't mention the $4+ billion in Obama Green $lu$h for unready and inadequate alt.energy installations that Israeli companies have accepted. He hasn't noticed that? He thinks doing that undermining technology is okay and "moral" for the America he says he's so concerned about?
This guy is Likud? Is he switching over to Red China? or Red Russia? Or going it alone, with 7 mil vs the billions that are baying for khyber? I, for one, would rather be dead than red, but that's just me. Actually, I would agree that this Obama Administration is surrounding Israel with the Muslim Bros, the Black Flag Al Qaeda Cannibals, etc., but the normal U.S. people are supporting Israel at the highest %% ever polled. So, how about helping us vote out these new left progressive marcuse marxist morons, rather than accepting their Green $lu$h and giving them medals? That could work better than slamming the proverbial door.
Isn't he making the case for no aid = no requirement to bow to Obama's consessions?
Stay allied with the U.S but more as equals.
An isn't taking money from people with more resources rather than standing on your own two feet more of a socialist idea??
Maybe as a brit I'm missing context but
Smijj, I believe Israel stopped receiving economic aid years ago. What is remaining is defense development (and, unfortunately, Green $lu$h for un-advantageous ends). The UK also works with the US on economic transfers through trade, not US handouts. That said, fantastic Brit scientists and engineers participate in amazing defense co-development programs. They, as are Israelis and others, are vital... And the UK and Israel and other allies benefit from the outcome. As a UK person, the comparable statement to your comment about rejecting "aid" bringing about "independence" would be to say your country (UK) is dominated by co-development of new defense, or defence, :) technologies, which is patently inaccurate.
But you won't have to weigh it for long, as the current crop of marcuse marxist progressives in the Obama Posse are domolishing our military, our economy, even our day to day way of life. Cheer if you must, stop helping the progressives (in all our countries) if you can, so they'll be voted out before voting becomes a 100% fraud, rather than the 75% mafia intimidation racket it is running as right now.
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