What does America get out of helping Israel?

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BadBeast

A friend in the middle east, and a quantifiable demographic to manipulate in the ballot system.

Wow, 9 thumbs down! truth hurts, maybe? How about this then!

"EVERY TIME WE DO SOMETHING, YOU TELL ME AMERICANS WILL DO THIS AND WILL DO THAT. I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING VERY CLEAR: DON'T WORRY ABOUT AMERICAN PRESSURE ON ISRAEL;

WE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, CONTROL AMERICA. AND THE AMERICANS KNOW IT."-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Israeli Foriegn Minister, on whether USA might withdraw support, over treatment of Palestinians.
October 3, 2001
(IAP News)

Zeno

Nothing whatsoever; as John Kennedy once remarked "It's all a one-way street with those boys". He was a great admirer of Nasser and sought to maintain a policy of even-handedness throughout the Mideast. He was killed during the course of a very hostile and rapidly escalating behind-the-scenes conflict with the Israeli government regarding their acquisition of nuclear weaponry. Subsequently his successor Lyndon Johnson engaged in a massive build-up of the zionist military,in particular it's air force and the 1967 War of Acquisition was viewed favorably despite a vicious Israeli attack on one of our own naval vessels. The "special friendship" that has existed since that time is now deeply entrenched,owing to the billions sent to Occupied Palestine being used,among other things,to finance the purchase in the U.S. of key newspapers,magazines and television stations. Given this degree of zionist influence with the media it would not be possible for anyone to be elected president without firmly committing themselves to maintaining the status quo; enough negative publicity will kill any presidential bid,and the same applies to the Senate. Meanwhile at zionist request we have consistently engaged in extremely hostile relations with the Arab states - to put it mildly - while the American public is brainwashed into thinking the "Israelis" are saints and Muslims are demons,by means of the aforementioned control of the media,which subject is in itself of course taboo to even discuss. I live in the U.S. and in real terms most Americans have at this point been converted to a new if subconscious religion: the "Government of Israel" has taken the place of God and the Arab states have taken the place of the Devil. Every year more billions are drained out of our economy and more newspapers and magazines are purchased by zionists,both Jewish and Protestant. I hope this clarifies the situation. And this was once a country that in response to the israeli slaughter of 156 people in cold blood in the Gaza ( February,1957) gave the Israelis 24 hours to clear out or the U.S. would sever diplomatic ties and send in the Marines to assist them in their departure.
A lot has changed since Dallas. The real birth of "modern Israel" took place at 12:30 p.m. on November 22,1963.

tripper

Nothing but the shame and moral responsibility for faciliating the continuing existence of the world's single most brutal and homicidal regime. Calling it a "democracy" is like calling Mississippi in 1925 a "democracy". Their alleged army is without any trace of dignity or honor; it is merely a heavily armed version of the Ku Klux Klan and the "democracy" is strictly for persons of the "right" ethnicity; no measure however vile is spared to drive out the others. Killing Palestinian children is cold blood is like hunting gophers in North Dakota to these wretched excuses for humans. Isreali has no place among the civilized nations of the earth; it is an atavistic throw-back to the barbaric practices of the year 1000 B.C which about where these people live in terms of their thought-world.

PrincessDiana22

I can tell you what bush got for helping Israel

two reporter shoes.

But its a shame he missed his face.

Judy's Rabbit

Just a bad name because of the later sadly.

Lady Lulu

Apart from what others have said, one point is, America can't really critisise Israel, because they haven't done anything the USA hasn't already done. Look what America did to it's indiginous people. They stole their land, gave them disease, made them into alcoholilcs, and killed off pretty close to all of their people, and then they stuck them on tiny little reservations out in the middle of nowhere. They have appeased them by letting them have a modicom of self rule on these reservations, but at the end of the day ultimately they are still under the US jurisdiction. So if the USA was to critisise them, they would be accused of being great big hypocrites. Nothing new there I realise, but still, it is a matter of saving face. And guess what, when I pulled up an American on these facts, they said, and I quote 'well, they weren't doing anything with this country anyway, so we took it, and look what we made it into'. Sound familiar?
and to the poster who said Israel isn't a terrorist country, get real, it soooo is.

Stainless Steel

Nada, nothing, rien!
It's the jew-Lobby that's "arrangin" things son!
We get sheet from the jews.
It's always "give-give-give" or "Mooooooore" of them crying out loud like them horny beaches in heat!
Don't you ever wonder what them jews are doing so close to our Presidents?
Steel.

Noor

it is about money, power and having control.

After the second world war, considerable care was taken to prevent establishment
of Arab Federation, which would threaten Western oil interests in the
region. It seems that the very creation of the State of Israel was approved
by the Western diplomats to create a wedge in the Arab world. In the
other words, Jews were given a state that was pre-destined to be engulfed in a constant struggle.

well, Noam Chomsky said:

The Middle East was controlled for the US by a set of peripheral non-Arab states at that time, Iran under the Shah, Israel, Turkey, all of which had a loose informal alliance. They were the cops on the beat, the police headquarters was in Washington, and there was a branch office in London, thatâ€™s basically the way the system was controlled. When the Shah collapsed in 1979, Israelâ€™s role became even more important and it was also by then providing subsidiary services to the US, helping the US evade the sanctions against South Africa, supporting terrorist states and terrorist groups in Central America when the Reagan administration was blocked by Congressional actions. It simply became a very valuable client state and surrogate. By now itâ€™s far and away the major military force in the region. Its air and armoured forces are larger and technologically more advanced than any NATO power apart from the United Kingdom. Itâ€™s a major financial centre, itâ€™s a high tech centre, closely linked with US high-tech industry, both of which are pretty militarised, with lots of investment both ways.
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20080423.htm

The Zionists Who Dominate the White House

Ever wondered why America was so unstinting in its support of Israel? The answer is laid out in the following list of those who serve in Washington's pro-Israeli lobby. The lobby has many "thinktanks" that provide future advisors to the various administrations, both Republican and Democrat. During the Clinton Administration, the Israeli lobby provided officials from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy like Martin Indyk. During the Bush Jr Administration, many of the officials the Israeli lobby provided are from their Republican "thinktanks," like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).

Muttley

the US as a country?
Nothing!

The US politicians?
They receive monetary contributions from the Israeli lobby for their campaigns.

FYI: the Israeli lobby in the US is one of the most (if not THE most) powerful lobby.

Brynn

Only the slow poisoning of our national character,as we continue to senselessly provide virtually unlimited support to one of the cruelest and most evil regimes the world has ever known. We have lost our country and worst of all we have lost our souls to this demonic influence. You cannot dance with the devil and remain wholly human. As a culture we are dying and we all know when this spiritual disease set in. And I would agree with Zeno: Eisenhower and Kennedy were fair and never tolerated such depradations. This nightmarish descent into infernal complicity did begin in Dallas. I am surprised I never made that connection before. But yes - that was the turning point.

Diamond

Hmm. one thing for sure, we get to avail ourselves of their talented people to occupy top positions in our government and foreign policy circles.

List of government officials carrying dual American-Israeli citizenship
http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html

And that is plain WRONG. I do not care if these people are dual citizens with China, German, UK or whatever - top positions in government should never be occupied by dual citizens.

Otherwise how do we know where the loyalties lie? How do we know that decisions are being made in the interests of AMERICANS and not the person's mother country?

Yes ... the czar who would administer martial law in America, should it ever be declared, is a DUAL CITIZEN!

Case on point. Read the first posted comment at the bottom of that article:

"Dear Sir:

I am a survivor of the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 during the Six Day War. I think dual citizenship has a lot to do with the reason that the surviving crew cannot get the U.S. Government to look at our "War Crimes Report". This is an act by the Israeli Defense Force that has never been investigated by Congress. There was a Naval Board of Inquiry and it was found by that board that the attack was an accident. If you will look on the USS LIberty web site you will find that former Captain Ward Boston who was the counsel for the board has made a statement that he was forced to make the outcome appear to be an accident and that Robert McNamara and LBJ forced him into doing just that. We have not been able to get even a Congressional Investigation into this attack because we are being stopped by those in our government with what I believe to have dual citizenship. Having a high position in our government and maintaining dual citizenship is wrong, and no one should be allowed to do this if they can't give their complete loyality to one country.

Ronald G. Kukal www.ussliberty.org"

Citizen for a Just Peace

Only the dubious honor of being a footstool for the Master Race.

gypsy_cat 345

As an American, I can unequivocally state that the "blessing" we achieve from our alliance with Israel is a big fat taxpayer-funded BILL for $6 billion annually.
While here in freezing Michigan, there are thousands of people whose income isn't enough to heat their homes!
We've JUST about reached that point where we're saying, No More.

John E

The moon on a silver platter!
LOL!
It is a blackmail and nothing more my friend.
The Jewish people have been unable to find a counter-measure for those Katusha 18th century rockets, you know
Do not believe any of this nonsense about technology and other ridiculous excuses.
Greetings

dalia

not gratitude i am sure!

The Seeker III

With All Reasons other Answerers Mentioned , Still it doesn't make sense why America takes all the hate and trouble for Supporting an Apartheid Regime like Israel as one of its Closest Allies .
So i guess we need to seek the Reason somewhere else

I rememeber I read Somewhere some Extermist Christians Know Jewish People as the "Chosen Ones" so they Belive its their Ultimate Duty to Help them Build their Own Empire !
Could that be the reason ? idk , Im just not sure how true this Story is!

Ninety9

they get a huge debt in return and the world hating on them, its Israel's fault that America is hated so much, cause America is Israel's puppet..

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

mark

Let's take a look at where some (few) of these people are: Paul Dundes Wolfowitz Â¬ not long ago was the Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense and now President of the World Bank, Richard Perle - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Ari Fleischer - was White House Press Secretary and a director of World Jewish Congress, Josh Bolten - Deputy Chief of Staff, Ken Melman - White House Political Director, Jay Lefkowitz - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Daniel Fried - Special Assistant to President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs, David Frum Â¬ Speechwriter-wrote the axis of evil speech-, Brad Blakeman - White House Director of Scheduling( he decides who sees Bush and who doesn't), Dov Zakheim - Undersecretary of Defense (Controller), decides where the money goes, I. Lewis Libby - Chief of Staff to the Vice President, should be tried for treason for exposing Valerie Plame, a CIA agent, Elliott Abrams , an Israeli- now Director of the National Security Council's Office for Near East affairs, that's the office overseeing the U.S. Middle East policy. Abrams' appointment is viewed as "a gift from heaven" for 'Israel.' , Douglas Feith Â¬ an Israeli,was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and was responsible for making up the big lies about Iraq buying Uranium from Africa, very close to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Michael Chertoff Â¬ Homeland Security Secretary, Allen Greenspan, Federal Reserve Chairman, a private firm that controls ALL financial aspects of the country, and many, many more. You can see some of them in this partial list. Add to that, most Ambassadors to Europe and to countries that count, plus most advisors on the National Security Council and other sensitive government positions. This gang and others were the ones who conned America into going to war against Iraq for Israel...

Senator William Fullbright of Arkansas who served until 1975 said, " Israel controls the United States Senate. Around 80 percent are completely in support of Israel; what Israel wants it gets. Jewish influence in the House of Representatives is even greater." This was back in the Seventies, now they wield partial to total control over 95 Senators and all 435 members of the House except maybe 23. Listen to Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: " I've never seen a President- I don't care who he is- stand up to them. They always get what they want, If the American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms." Paul Findley, a US Congressman for 22 years noted on the subject that:

"Israel is able to stifle free speech, control our Congress, and even dictate our foreign policy."

HopelessZ00

Eyes in the East. Cheers!

Crystal (PSM)

Hatred and hostility from the Arab and Muslim world specifically and the world in general.

Dania

Usa , countries of Europe and Israel ...
all of them are trying to destroy Arab's religious principles .... one of their Ways is to put israel in the middle of arab countries ( Palestine )in that case Usa will undertake the protection for Israel not cause of Israel or cause they love jews ......
and they obtain it ( now look at arabian guys they are ill-natured ) ....

Bosco

They buy a lot of Apache helicopters and Hellfire missiles to murder Gazans and West Bankers and our armaments firms always get a long order for F-14s. They're a good customer if you're selling Death From the Sky.

Galahad

Nothing but trouble and a shame they will never live down.

theking K

1- Israeli pilots trains American pilots.
2- America will use Israel to attack Iran, they are using us, we are not even allowed to enter the US as toursit without a special visa that is almost impossible to get for young Israelis.
So they are using us.

The First Dragon

Surprisingly, the US weighs the question of what is right to do, not just what will benefit the US.
Israel is like-minded; a democracy with equal rights for all, a country that helps its poor neighbors even in the face of hatred and continual attack; a people who work hard and achieve a lot.

The Ultimate Radical

They use the loans to buy American weapons, which was America's idea in the first place. So maybe people should ask, "what do Israel and Palestine get out of America giving loans and aid to Israel so that they can buy weapons from America?"

dandyl

Before I answer your question, I wanted to tell you that Israel is not a terrorist state/country its a Zionist country.Israel does more for the USA them most other countries, is this world, no one gets anything for nothing.aid is much more than symbolic; it brings very real benefits to both sides.
There is to many things to list as to why its vital for Americans to support Israel.
read this
http://www.meforum.org/article/259

gary o

Israel is the only democracy in that area of the world. You would be shocked if you would read about all the companies from the US that are working with Israel to develop ideas and products that make you healthier and enjoying the life you live in technology, medicine, health and many more.

Kevin S

Intelligence of surrounding arab countries
Application of ecological principles in dry arid heat
Cell phones (technically)
Microprocessors
Fighter Jet Technology
Indirect imperialism by America on Israel
Fighting Terrorism abroad because one of their targets is Hezbollah
Another country in the world that speaks english
Support United Nations decision to create a Jewish state (Israel) and an arab state (Jordan)

Jim E

- A high amount of medical research done in Israel goes towards America.
- Israeli's have the most new start-up companies on the American stock exchange.
- Israel and America work extremely close developing military hardware.

Just read up on wikipedia.

Warren S

Israel is in the forefront of Research and Development and shares much of their knowledge with her allies, especially the United States of America and Australia. The USA also believes that every nation has a right to exist in peace and security. The Palestinians too could have their own state in Gaza and the West Bank if they also accepted that principle.

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