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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
I'd argue the the US presence there does more to worsen the situation than it does to lessen it.
Stop supporting Israel, and get out of the area completely.
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I wonder why you would want them to stop supporting Israel, the country that seems to treat people better than anyone else in the region? Do you know what other countries are supported by the US? Russia, Senegal, Mexico and Colombia combined receive more than Israel, give or take. There are many many countries receiving aid. The difference is that Israel spends nearly all of the aid in the US, on military items. If enough nations made peace with Israel, basically like Egypt and Jordan, Israel can decrease aid and another country can start receiving it. No peace, no aid. It is fairly good leverage, except when other nations (back in the day Russia) would back Israel's enemies.
The other theory is that whatever Israel spends on the military, it is paid back tenfold in how Israel gives back their technology, information and provides the US a tactical strike point.
Complaining about Israel foreign aid, considering how much the US provides to other middle eastern countries, is tiresome and a bad argument, usually with bad undertones. The popular reason people want removed aid to Israel is because they think the so called friendly neighbors can gang up and destroy Israel. If anyone thinks for a second countries hate the US because they support Israel is simply wrong. These countries have enough hate this is a non issue. Look how well Syria is doing right now, murdering their own citizens. Blaming Israel is a poor argument, considering the bad these nations have done to their own people and their own neighbors. Muslims blow up a mosque? Bad. Americans burn Korans? Death to pretty much anything. There is something wrong, and it is not Israel.
Because governments have ritualized hatred of Israel does not make it right to cut off aid nor will it make the problems in some of these countries go away. Aid is simply an item that exists, remove that and another excuse is made up to justify the evils of democracy and the West and against their own people.