If you do not understand the importance of defending Israel, You will not understand.
Defending Israel IS Protecting America’s existance.
And if you don’t understand, you don’t understand.
Let me guess, God will get angry at us if we don’t do it? Tell me: Where exactly in the Bible does it talk about a state established in 1948? I mean, I’m a Bible major and I can’t find it. What am I missing?
So you support raising the debt limit to pay for Israel’s defense?
With all respect, while I admire your sentiment I cannot agree with you.
America does not owe any nation the hard earned tax dollars of its citizens. We waged a bloody war against the Brits to prove that very point. Our Constitution clearly spells out the areas in which federal funds are to be spent — financing allies who aren’t exactly struggling for funds isn’t one of them.
Israel is an important ally. It’s an ally we should be fully prepared to defend with force should such prove necessary. But if you believe it is our duty to financially support Israel, how far do we take that? Billions of dollars a year? Tens of billions of dollars a year? Hundreds of billions of dollars a year? Trillions a year? If Israel finds herself in a particularly nasty bind, do you think it is our duty as Americans to raise our taxes to support them? And if yes, how high should they go?
America has a responsibility to its allies, especially key ones such as Israel. It is not “throwing our allies under the bus” to recognize the limits of that responsibility, however — our nation’s responsibility to Israel only goes so far as our Constitution enables our government to act in such matters. We are loyal to the Israelis as allies, but we must be loyal to America first.