In historic move, Sen. Rand Paul places hold on $38 billion to Israel

By Jackson Richman, Jewish News Service (JNS)

(November 21, 2018 / JNS) Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has a history of being skeptical about U.S. taxpayer funds going towards the Jewish state, has placed a hold on the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018, which provides Israel with $38 billion in military aid over the next decade.

[Editor’s note: This equals approximately $23,000 for every Jewish Israeli family of four.]

This has caused backlash from organizations such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

“This bipartisan legislation authorizes full funding of security assistance to ensure Israel has the means to defend itself,” AIPAC posted on Facebook with a link to “urge Sen. Paul to stop blocking aid to Israel.”

[Editor’s Note: Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world, including 100 to 400 nuclear weapons.]

“We are working hard to gain a final vote on this critical legislation,” AIPAC spokesperson Marshall Wittmann told JNS. “We believe that it will be enacted before Congress adjourns for the year.”

A hold is a procedure where a senator tells his or her floor leader that he or she does not want a specific measure to reach the floor for consideration, and therefore may filibuster any motion to proceed to debate the bill or other measure.

However, in this case, Majority Leader and fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell does not have to abide by Paul’s request.

[Editor’s note: McConnell has received over $1.5 million from pro-Israel campaign donors.]

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Paul’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Senate and House of Representatives passed a version each in August and September, respectively. The former must pass its final version before U.S. President Donald Trump can sign it into law.

Anyone who wishes Rand Paul to continue his historic action should email him and/or phone him: 202-224-4343.

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He probably wants budget reform. America needs to lower its debt to gdp to below 100 percent and currently its 105 percent because of shit like this. The Republicans control the Senate, that means they can decide the Federal budget

We know they've got at least 200, and at one point the number 228 was floating around, so where the hell did 400 come from?

Fuck Trump.

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People seem to not understand that this fake news grandstanding to an empty auditorium on a Wednesday where everyone in DC ended their day at noon means nothing. He lucked with this because his office called someone in the press corp in order to make this statement. The 2019 debt card was issued months ago. He's making a statement in relation to the 2020 debit card. The only people this hurts is the Military industry in the US as the funds can only be used in the US. Ending the funds to Israel removes the strings attached to Israel allowing Israel to take their business elsewhere and the US can't complain about it anymore.

I don't care who Israel buys their weapons from, I just don't want to pay for it.

Plus, they've already sunk massive amounts into American made weapons and systems. Switching would be very expensive for them.

Why in the hell are we giving them tens of billions?!

So they can turn around and buy weapons from us. It's one of the many ways we subsidise defense contractors.

Nothing to see here, just a reminder to the public who is unjustly persecuted all the time.

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How is U.S. interest served by giving Israel $38 billion in military aid?
Why are Israelis so unwilling to repay US military funding?

Israel receives 700 million dollars more aid than African countries because unlike those countries it has a powerful lobby in the United States. This lobby is the basis for what is euphemistically termed "the special relationship". Btw the 3 billion dollars is just direct aid.


According to Delinda Haley, who is executive director and news editor at Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [WRMEA]:

"Israel tries to give Americans the impression that they are in grave danger. They face annihilation. Their urgent appeals bring in significant charitable contributions, both from well-meaning evangelical Christians and American Jews. Soft-hearted Americans send U.S. tax-deductible donations to 27,000 non-profit organizations in order to help the needy, including Jewish immigrants and Israeli soldiers—who knew that we can get a tax write-off by sending pizzas and sodas to Israeli soldiers in tanks at checkpoints! Birthright Israel sends 37,000 young Jewish people on free ten-day trips to Israel each year.

Wealthy Americans donate $660 million a year for these trips. Students are not permitted to travel to the West Bank, Gaza, or East Jerusalem.
Does Israel really need our handouts? Let’s compare Israel’s economy to other countries.


• Israel’s 2013 per capita gross domestic product was $34,900. That put it below Britain at $37,300 and France at $ 35,700 and just above the E.U. at $34,500.

• According to the National Power Index, Israel’s army ranks 6th in the world.

• Israel has nuclear weapons—unlike any of its neighbors.

• Israel ranks 4th in technological capacity and is among the world’s leaders in science.

• According to Haaretz, Israel’s unemployment rate is 6.2 percent, while America’s is 7 percent and Europe’s average unemployment is 12 percent.

• Israel ranks 15 on the UN development index, illustrating the high quality of life for Jews living in Israel.

• Israelis can expect to live until they are 81.8. (Americans life expectancy is 78.6.)

• Israel’s state-funded health care is ranked 4th in the world. The U.S. is near the bottom of Bloomberg’s list of 48 countries.

We know they have nukes, no need to fear monger more

Israel receives more than $3.1 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America’s entire foreign aid budget. U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently promised that this aid would not be reduced even while he listed significant cuts to America’s defense budget. In fact in June 2013 the House Armed Services Committee voted to give Israel an extra half a billion dollars in military aid for missile interception systems."

Further:

"For 2014 fiscal year Israel has received $3.4 billion from the foreign aid budget and $2 billion in federal loan guarantees.

That’s nine million three hundred fifteen thousand and sixty-eight dollars per day, 365 days a year. If you add grants and loans, Israel has received since 1949 a grand total of $134.21 billion, excluding the $10 billion in U.S. government loan guarantees it has drawn to date. And Shirl McArthur’s calculations are modest. A respected economist, Dr. Thomas Stauffer, estimated that Israel cost the U.S. about $1.6 trillion between 1973 and 2003 alone, more than twice the cost of the Vietnam War.

And that’s not all…. Israel gets some unique benefits.

• Washington has granted Israel $19 billion in loan guarantees in recent years to make it easier to borrow overseas.

• Israel gets its aid money at the start of each year, unlike other nations. This means Israel can start earning interest on the money right away. And the U.S. government, which operates at a deficit, must borrow this money to pay Israel and then pay interest on the amount all year long.

• Israel can use 25 percent of U.S. aid to buy arms from Israeli companies.

• Congressional legislation requires us to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge. Anytime another country in the Middle East buys U.S. arms we have to make sure Israel gets better weapons.

• We regularly transfer “surplus military equipment” to Israel. Israel now is storing equipment worth more than $1.2 billion.

• Americans also give $1.5 billion to Egypt’s 85 million people—well, actually most of that goes directly to Egypt’s military—for “meeting its obligations under the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.”

• Jordan’s 6 and a half million people get $660 million a year for keeping peace with their neighbor.

Aid to Israel is a subject that rarely makes it into the mainstream media. We were stunned when Walter Pincus, who reports on intelligence, defense and foreign policy for The Washington Post, tackled this normally unmentionable subject. Days after Israel’s cabinet cut nearly two million from Israel’s own defense budget, on Oct. 18, 2011, Pincus pointed out: “If Israel can reduce its defense spending because of its domestic economic problems, shouldn’t the United States—which must cut military costs because of its major budget deficit—consider reducing its aid to Israel?”

I’d like to conclude by stating the obvious: The U.S. president and congress give aid to Israel for domestic reasons: in order to please Jewish and Evangelical Christian voters who are often more pro-Israeli than Israelis.

It is mind-boggling that when it comes to Israel, U.S. taxpayers’ largesse has no preconditions. Israel has a green light to use American tax revenue for military operations, which destroy Palestinian (or Lebanese) roads, water tanks, sewage lines, electrical power plants and police stations, not to mention shops, homes, schools, orchards and lives. Sometimes Israel demolishes projects like parks, playgrounds, ports and other vital infrastructure paid for by American taxpayers and donors.

what the fuck?

He's pro open borders and it's only a hold, wake me up when we deny jews the theft.

kvetch more kike.

RAND PAUL FOR PRESIDENT

Rand Paul doing something right for once? Well, hell, I'll take it.

Rand, is that you?

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DEAL WITH HIS SHIRT CUFF?

he's aa total douchebag

a deformed assclown


lol his neighbor is an old man, who BEAT HIS ASS

he's ugly, like his father

but his father is actually cool
RAND IS NOT COOL AT ALL

fuck him and his cuff

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lol @ you thinking your whiny little 'opinions' matter.

THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS:

nobody cares about aid to Israel

Rand Paul is ugly

he's a little ugly wimp

And an old man literally TACKLED HIM and Rand is such a wimp, that he broke 5 ribs and fucked his neck up

He took it like a little girl

He didn't fight back at all

And the old man who broke him in two is just an old geezer. A doctor

Rand Paul is a fucking WIMP

an ugly, effeminate, cowardly wimp

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Oh fuck, no. Not Rand. He's gonna get random suicided, isn't he?
Where's your god now, Zig Forums? What was that about Rand being part of thew Jewish state?

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AGAIN: HE NEVER FOUGHT BACK

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lol at thinking you will ever fix that, uh, problem you have

Fucking BITCH Coward

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So… In other words, YES….

yes you WOULD let someone beat
your ass without ever fighting back?

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he's not. not much anyway. but he is an anti-white cuck that says mexican illegal immigrants benefit us and the term illegal is offensive. he is also in favor of that law that makes it illegal to boycott israel.

It would look unusual to not be sending this much money to a country you are collaborating with. The truth is though the israeli government runs the entire united states so this does absolutely nothing. All these people with magic names are false saviors spreading false hope and disinformation to get pussies to go phew somebody else is doing the work for me. This entire world is a lie, there is no justice, there is no freedom , education makes you stupid. We want to work and we want knowledge. We don't want jobs and we don't want education. We want criminal psychopaths in prison. We don't want law abiding drug gun or word users imprisoned. We want information about our world through news not propaganda and sensationalized bullshit. We don't want communism which is just a different way for government to control we want a system where everyone servicing the world is given a decent life and hard workers get rewards. We don't want religion we want spirituality. inventors should be praised not given full power over their invention until their death, patents are fucking retarded . We don't want psycho psychiatrists we want help. Every murder is preventable . The solutions are blocked so fags get more power.

The Panama papers came out revealing all these elites launder money and nobody gave a fuck. Only person punished was the journalist. The dea helps the cia traffic drugs while imprisoning Jamal . Where can I do a Freedom of information request on the profits from arming militaries across the world? Where is a transparent report on all the oil and gold retrieve from Libya Iraq Syria etc? If you think any of this shit the media controlled by one group feeds you is legitimate and not just here to pacify you you are hopeless.

checked and
kekd

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