Aid to Israel

During his recent visit to the Middle East, President Obama promised that aid to Israel will continue.  What?  We are closing our schools, neglecting our injured soldiers, reducing federal services, including the Post Office, due to an alleged shortage of money, but we will continue aid to Israel that hovers around $3 billion per year.   Why is Israel more important to our politicians than our children are?  

Israel receives huge amounts of money each year from Jews around the world, especially those living in the U.S.  It has very sophisticated solicitation methods.  It doesn’t need any of our children’s money.  Why are we squeezing pennies from our civil servants to give to a rogue nation that has a history of murdering Americans.  In 2003, the Israeli army murdered 24-year-old Rachael Corrie from Washington State.  In 1967, it murdered nearly half the sailors on the USS Liberty.  Recently it attacked, in international waters, flotillas sailing under the Turkish flag killing several people aboard.

Israel bullies and murders its neighbors and regularly launches aggressive invasions into Palestine and Lebanon.  A justification for invading Iraq was the charge that it was in violation of 14 U.N. Resolutions.  Israel was in violation of 60 U.N. resolutions at that time.

Besides being totally bewildered and confused, the only reason I can think of  that our politicians support Israel is that as long as Israel is around there is some question as to whether or not the U.S. is the most cruel, criminal, rogue nation of the 21st Century.