With the amount of people with an irrational hatred for Jews and Israel out there, do you think that the program is not heavily watched? No, that's not a persecution complex. Like I said, the aid is a lightning rod.
But you're right, of the 2.7 billion (for 2010) that is given to Israel in the form of military aid, there may be room to wiggle. The law stating that 'most' purchases must be approved by congress states most, not all. But there are rejections to requests that are outside of this conversation. I stated that tech was one of the benefits of the relationship. Not the only and not on a 1:1 relationship. To say that the situation is complex is to degenerate the word complex. When the US needed Israeli armor for Iraq, they hit a firestorm because it was Israeli and the deal had to be routed 'under the covers'. The counter-terrorism knowledge given to the US (and no one else) is also fuzzy. We give, we get, we hide, we seek, it's a relationship. And going back to the basis of this thread, Obama's actions are not helping that relationship. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is not a government program in existence for which "every single > cent" is accounted for, and even IF that were the case here, US > funding of any part of the Israeli budget frees up money to fund > research. Frankly, I don't care if the US gives money to Israel, I > just find it a specious argument that we are somehow getting all this > great tech in return. > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michael Dinowitz > <mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: >> >> We're not talking actual money here. It's not as if America is >> delivering a crate of bills. We're talking 'credit'. Public credit. >> Credit linked to an aid package that is ALWAYS used as a point against >> Israel whenever the topic comes up in almost every location. Even >> here, every time Israel is talked about, that aid is mentioned. Do you >> really think that a single cent is not accounted for? >> >> -- >> Michael Dinowitz > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
