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The good ole club is making the rounds with the picture of the rockets heading towards Israel. Pity the poor Israel folks, and fear all that happens. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Yes the media feeds it to us well. And the rocket the was launched, did it even hit the ground in Israel? It looked like a freaking home-made rocket.
You know I don't give a flying poo what Israel does, but I do care that we are paying for this mess. Over 2 billion in US aid goes to Israel, and for what? They are not required to tell us what they do with the money! U.S. law prohibits the president from furnishing military aid to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.? 22 U.S.C. ? 2304(a). So why do my tax dollars go to this fucked up country?
It's a mess and has been for years, but I still don't like it. For one my taxpayer money is involved in this, and two, Israel seems hellbent on killing and suffocating all the Gaza civilians. Read below on my article to my representative. . . there is a link to the news that they are keeping medical supplies from going into the Gaza. Why. . .are the Israel people that evil? Yes sort of, but mostly because they don't want photographs of the carnage leaking into the media.
read about a US ship attacked by israel:
http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/
read about US military aid to israel:
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_17.shtml
Mr Lewis.
Can you explain where our aid money to Israel ends up being used? I have been able to find no documentation on how our aid money is used by Israel.
I am truly outraged by what Israel actions in wars against its neighbors. Now they are blocking medical aid to the people in Gaza:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805075.stm
If we do not know what Israel does with our taxpayer money, I believe we should not give our hard earned money away to them. .especially in our recent economic woes. We give almost 1/3 of our aid to Israel. Why? And what do they do with it?
I also don't see any reports of ANY Israel people injured or killed from the recent rocket fire. Maybe because Raytheon sells anti-missle equipment to Israel? Probably because the rockets where intercepted and caused no damage in Israel.. . yet Israel kills hundreds in Gaza in retaliation. And we as taxpayers support this massacre?
And for a bit of history, the USS Liberty was a documented, proven war crime even as described by the Israeli government. When will this incident be investigated?
The Israelis claim that they attacked without first identifying the ship or its nationality. That alone is a war crime. We know that they did in fact identify our ship as American before attacking and attacked with full knowledge that we were American. Yet even if their story were true, their own version of the circumstances would identify this attack as a war crime. Thirty-four Americans died and 174 were wounded. Yet the attack on the USS Liberty is the only serious maritime incident in American history that has never been investigated by Congress.
Thank you
Rod
You know I don't give a flying poo what Israel does, but I do care that we are paying for this mess. Over 2 billion in US aid goes to Israel, and for what? They are not required to tell us what they do with the money! U.S. law prohibits the president from furnishing military aid to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.? 22 U.S.C. ? 2304(a). So why do my tax dollars go to this fucked up country?
It's a mess and has been for years, but I still don't like it. For one my taxpayer money is involved in this, and two, Israel seems hellbent on killing and suffocating all the Gaza civilians. Read below on my article to my representative. . . there is a link to the news that they are keeping medical supplies from going into the Gaza. Why. . .are the Israel people that evil? Yes sort of, but mostly because they don't want photographs of the carnage leaking into the media.
read about a US ship attacked by israel:
http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/
read about US military aid to israel:
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_17.shtml
Mr Lewis.
Can you explain where our aid money to Israel ends up being used? I have been able to find no documentation on how our aid money is used by Israel.
I am truly outraged by what Israel actions in wars against its neighbors. Now they are blocking medical aid to the people in Gaza:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7805075.stm
If we do not know what Israel does with our taxpayer money, I believe we should not give our hard earned money away to them. .especially in our recent economic woes. We give almost 1/3 of our aid to Israel. Why? And what do they do with it?
I also don't see any reports of ANY Israel people injured or killed from the recent rocket fire. Maybe because Raytheon sells anti-missle equipment to Israel? Probably because the rockets where intercepted and caused no damage in Israel.. . yet Israel kills hundreds in Gaza in retaliation. And we as taxpayers support this massacre?
And for a bit of history, the USS Liberty was a documented, proven war crime even as described by the Israeli government. When will this incident be investigated?
The Israelis claim that they attacked without first identifying the ship or its nationality. That alone is a war crime. We know that they did in fact identify our ship as American before attacking and attacked with full knowledge that we were American. Yet even if their story were true, their own version of the circumstances would identify this attack as a war crime. Thirty-four Americans died and 174 were wounded. Yet the attack on the USS Liberty is the only serious maritime incident in American history that has never been investigated by Congress.
Thank you
Rod