Lugar Suggests Cutting Aid to Israel and PA
David Streeter — March 8, 2010 – 4:30 pm | Foreign Policy | Israel | Republicans Comments (1) Add a commentThe top Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) recently suggested reducing American aid to the Israelis and Palestinians last week during a Senate hearing. The Jerusalem Post reported:
... ranking member Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) raised the specter of reducing American support for Israel and the Palestinian Authority if they don’t comply with US demands on the peace process. Both parties receive generous American aid packages, though Lugar did not mention these monies in his comments.
‘The consequences might be that you really don’t receive our support - for a while you’re on your own. Take it or leave it,’ he suggested as one possible scenario ...
Thankfully, this is one area where President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden completely disagree with Lugar. Today in Israel, Biden said in an interview:
’[The Obama administration] gives Israel annual military aid worth $3 billion. We revived defense consultations between the two countries, doubled our efforts to ensure Israel preserves its qualitative military edge in the region, expanded our joint exercises and cooperation on missile-defense systems.’
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As long as Israel takes money from our goeverment when we are hurting financially as a country , I will have no respect for them. It is time they carry themselves and get off the American bottle.