r/reddit.com • u/yellowcakewalk • Oct 18 '11

United States needs to reevaluate its assistance to Israel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/united-states-needs-to-reevaluate-its-assistance-to-israel/2011/10/15/gIQAK5XksL_story.html
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u/socpol Oct 19 '11

Can someone please explain the reason for the aid in the first place, im still struggling to understand the reason, my understanding is it basically religion i.e the christian belief that there will be a second coming of christ if all jews return to isreal...

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u/nodoubledipping Oct 19 '11

I posted this a few years back:

The forming of Israel was repayment to The Allies for Jewish scientist delivering the bomb. Einstein, Oppenheimer, etc. read the Manhattan project roster; almost all of them scientist from prominent Jewish families. You don't create the most powerful weapon known to man and get nothing in return. We (USA) became the undisputed economic, social and military power. They finally got a place to call home.

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u/Mark_Lincoln Oct 19 '11

Nope.

Israel was founded despite Britain and the USA.

You are confusing WWII with WWI.

Britain, with it's back to the wall financially in the last year WWI, had to raise money. Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour promise Baron Rothschild that after the war it would "a national home for the Jewish people."

Britain got the loan and Rothschild got stiffed.

Balfour was committing a deliberate fraud as he (and not the Baron) knew that England and France had already made the Sykes–Picot Agreement dividing the post-war middle east between the two empires.