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2025-01-25 Home Front: Politix

US freezes new funding for most foreign aid programs, Israel military aid unaffected

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-25 2025-01-25 00:43|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Excellent move.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-25 01:59|| 2025-01-25 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign aid to Israel and Egypt, annually in the billions of $ were set by treaty during the Kissinger years. They have served the purpose of maintaining peace between two former belligerants.

Posted by Glusomp Spealet4328 2025-01-25 04:58|| 2025-01-25 04:58|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ Still not the US's problem, but there we are.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-25 05:13|| 2025-01-25 05:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Jimmy *SPIT* Carter's brilliant solution to the middle east problem that was never ours in the first place. Bribe Egypt with billions.
And then, for reasons that are still unclear to everyone, Israel had to get a similar bribe.
If these programs are so critical, let Europe and other nations who think they're important step in and cough up the cash. We have a border and North Carolina to attend to. We're broke from printing money to hand to Ukraine.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-01-25 08:54|| 2025-01-25 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 US orders immediate pause to foreign aid, leaked memo says

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-25 11:22|| 2025-01-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 And then, for reasons that are still unclear to everyone, Israel had to get a similar bribe.

This followed the Yom Kippur War, which Israel won overwhelmingly, and in fact General Ariel Sharon was well on his way to overrunning Cairo when he was stopped. If Egypt were the only one to get an American payoff in addition to getting the Sinai back from Israel in the usual land-for-peace trade Israel used to offer, the world would agree with Egypt that Israel had lost after all, and the rest of the surrounding nations would recalculate in favour of having America hand them similar wins against the hated Zionist entity in their midst.

As it is, Egypt gets money and arms, but Israel gets enough more that she maintains military superiority. Or at least that’s how I’ve always understood it.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-25 14:21|| 2025-01-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

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