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Jacob G. Hornberger of LewRockwell.com asks his readers what’s good about aid to Ukraine and Israel. He writes:
Advocates of foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel are patting themselves on the back after the passage of a $95 billion bill that includes $61 billion to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel. They’re saying that such aid demonstrates how good, caring, and compassionate America is.
In the case of Israel, the aid supposedly demonstrates that America is not 100 percent antisemitic because the aid to Israel helps to cancel out the thousands of college protesters who are protesting the Israeli government’s military killing machine in Gaza, which, it is said, automatically means that the protestors are antisemitic.
Is it possible for an American to oppose the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza without being considered antisemitic? Not according to proponents of foreign aid to Israel. They say that if one opposes foreign aid to Israel or opposes the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, that automatically means that one hates Jews.
This notion of goodness, care, and compassion is an interesting one. It holds that when the government uses taxpayer money to fund a foreign entity, the aid reflects the goodness, care, and compassion of the IRS agents who collect the taxes, the federal bureaucrats who distribute the aid, the military contractors who furnish the weaponry to foreign regimes, and also the goodness, care, and compassion of the American people.[…]
One last point: Doesn’t that $61 billion foreign aid bill add another $61 billion to the federal government’s $34 trillion debt? Aren’t American taxpayers on the hook for that debt? What if an American citizen objects to the aid package to Israel and Ukraine on that basis? Does that mean that he lacks goodness, care, or compassion or that he is antisemitic?
Wow! U.S. foreign policy can sure get complicated.
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