Posted on 01/08/2014 8:35:21 PM PST by MadIsh32
WASHINGTON — Israel adopted this week one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world, and will now provide government funding for non-medical abortions for Israeli women aged 20 to 33.
But Washington’s most anti-abortion lawmakers are largely silent on the new policy. These same members of Congress are also some of Israel’s loudest defenders, highlighting a peculiar aspect of the relationship between many of Israel’s ardent U.S. supporters and Israel’s domestic political landscape.
Last month, a health ministry panel in Israel recommended the state pay for the abortions of women aged 20 to 33, including non-medical abortions. The measure was adopted this week, and will cost the state annually about $4.6 million. Unlike in the United States, abortion is relatively non-controversial in the country.
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>> The Jews are gleefully aborting their race out of existence.
The primary reason for voting Democrat.
Maybe we should get the log out of our own country’s eye first?
Duh.
fta.... But Washington’s most anti-abortion lawmakers are largely silent on the new policy.
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Hey, Buzzfeed Kate... It’s Israel, where they are free to make their own laws.
Most Americans do not like the UN or other countries telling us what we should or should not do. Same holds true for the US States not wanting the federal government butting into their laws. So why do you idiots at Buzzfeed think our federal government should become involved in a law democratically passed in another country???
How ironic. The Israeli government comes up with a scheme to eradicate more Jews than even the most radical Palestinian terrorists could dream of.
Because our Federal government provides billions of dollars in our taxpayer money to Israel -- ostensibly to help it protect itself from military threats. What's the purpose of sending aid to protect a country like that, if its own government is hell-bent on implementing a policy that will probably kill more Israelis in a few weeks than terrorist attacks related to the Palestinian intifada have killed in several decades?
You won't find me in support of foreign aid in any threads. It is preposterous policy to borrow money, and put permanent interest payments on the backs of the American taxpayer to fund any other nation.
(Which I think should end asap to both sides so Israel can clean house already).
Why does that need to happen in order for Israel to 'clean house'?
Until then, kindly buzz off.
That's what I wish the Israeli and other vampires would do for the American taxpayer.
In my experience preponderance of capital letters has an inverse relationship to the merit of what is being written. If you care to read through my 10+ years of posts on this board you'll find me criticizing foreign aid link.
Just because I don't share your Israel fetish doesn't mean I'm not against, and haven't written on this forum against, welfare payments from this nation (which we must borrow and carry the expense of into perpetuity) to any other nation. I take General Washington's hard earned wisdom in international affairs to heart.
Perhaps you were under age / not born/ not paying attention / rooting for the wrong side in past Israeli wars, where the IDF nearly exterminated their enemies’ militaries / destroyed their capitals, when the U.S. held Israel back / stopped them.
How did the U.S. hold Israel back? If Israel was truly on the verge of eliminating its enemies, why listen to the U.S.? Why would they need our welfare payments if they eschewed them in favor of destroying their enemies? Perhaps you exaggerate?
You're ducking the question. How did the U.S. hold Israel back? If Israel was truly on the verge of eliminating its enemies, why listen to the U.S.? Why would they need our welfare payments if they eschewed them in favor of destroying their enemies?
Perhaps u prefer Israel b more like the rest of the Middle East rather than the reverse.
I don't care about Israel. Certainly no more than I care about Laos or Lesotho. I do observe demographics and birth rate and wonder how there will be a 'Jewish state' in the same territory if trends continue. But that has nothing to do with my indifference to foreign nations, and my desire to end their welfare payments that we can't afford and must borrow to fund.
Do you suppose leftist harpies will now support Israel against the MB and the PLO? Or will they, like the "gays," continue to support the people who wouldn't put up with their foolishness because they are their fellow "oppressed?"
Unfortunately, outside of the Orthodox, abortion and "gay rights" are non-controversial in Israel. No one else thinks a thing about it. As Rabbi Yehuda Levin has often observed, "Is it any wonder that the sword has been unleashed on our Holy Land?"
The ingathering most certainly has Divine biblical significance, but the state founded in 1948 is not and never was the prophesied Third Commonwealth. Fundamentalist Protestants have interpreted it as such because the real Restoration will not fit their chrstian beliefs.
Clearly they have turned their back on the God of their Fathers.
The Zionist movement was founded as just one more nineteenth century secular European nationalist movement, no different from the Italian risorgimento, the Fenian movement, or the Armenian Dashnaks. Most of the new settlers were not religious. However, there is now a large Orthodox community there with numerous yeshivot.
There is no doubt that much good has come from Jews once again having a state in the Holy Land. But this state is still not the restoration prophesied in the Bible.
The "ultra-Orthodox" do protest. Secular Jews are still, after all, Jews. And halakhah is halakhah.
Right?
Killing babies is wrong. We also have a lot of work to do in our own country to end abortion.
Bib isn't the restored Melekh Yisra'el; neither is he the Kohen Gadol. In fact, he isn't even an observant Jew.
I think the only observant Jews who have been PM of Israel are Begin and Shamir.
Given the fact that our tax dollars are given to all these other nations, exactly what is it about tax dollars given to Israel that makes it so uniquely onorous?
The old abortion policy also violated Jewish law, even with the Jewish position on abortion being different from the Catholic one.
Oh, an atheist.
Shouldn't you be on a Communist forum somewhere?
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