For years I've been saying that the so-called "aid" that Israel gets from the United States is damaging our economy.
As a country, an independent country, we have to live within our means. But honestly the "aid" is not money. It's mostly coupons, shopping coupons to use in "approved stores." And those stores are in America, not here. It's the way the capitalist America can "subsidize" certain industries.
There are strings attached to the gifts, conditional love to the extreme! Our military industries suffer from the strangle-hold the United States has on us. We aren't allowed to sell our products or develop competing ones with the states. This is another example of the sick Israeli psyche.
Something must be done to stop it.
3 comments:
well said! this desire to be on the receiving end, to get something for nothing, is part of the corruption that has brought us to this dubious junction
thanks, exactly
part of that schnurer, "misken" we've suffered, onwards to yad veshem, pity us
and never be fully independent
We don't need the american aid anymore. Last year, we had a surplus of between 10-30 billion shekels as reported in Globes and by Rav Leitan on Kol Chai.
The only upside to the aid is that some otherwise midwest congressmen are 'friends of Israel' since we use the aid in their districts. Okay, and shop-rite food in the army kitchens.
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