For the next 10 years, every New Hampshire taxpayer will be sending $300 in foreign aid to a wealthy nation, Israel. This is part of the $38 billion financial package that the Obama administration has promised Israel. The previous arrangement was for a mere $30 billion over 10 years. This $38 billion will account for almost half of all U.S. foreign aid.
Not content with this $38 billion, a cabal of U.S. senators, including John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and their protégé, Kelly Ayotte, are pressuring Obama to increase the amount to $45 billion. Moreover, all three opposed the accord with Iran to end its plan to develop a nuclear weapon. Yet, nowhere did I hear that Israel has between 150 to 200 nuclear bombs and missiles.
The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy just commissioned a poll by Google Consumer Surveys that indicated that almost 81 percent of people who use the Internet would take that $38 billion and use it for veterans’ care, education, reducing our debt and rebuilding our national infrastructure.
As a N.H. citizen and a U.S. Navy veteran, I think it is immoral to give Israel the proposed $38 billion in military aid. Gideon Levy, Israeli columnist for Haaretz, says:
“Some of the money will go for defense systems but another part will go for maintaining the occupation and especially to fund violent showy actions, in Gaza and Lebanon.”
Will Thomas
Auburn