Despite their famous arguments over Gaza, Bibi apparently has yet to say the above to Barry in so many words. He should, writes Arutz Sheva columnist Ronn Tossarian, and publically because, among other reasons, it would show the anti-Israel crowd that the Jewish state is not dependent on U.S. foreign aid.
King Scold (also known as the Great Divider) and his creature Lurch obviously think that because of what money the U.S. gives Israel they can tell Jerusalem what to do—including demand a ceasefire with its existential enemy Hamas.
In fact, says Tossarian, U.S. aid amounts to just 1.5 percent of Israel’s economy and, by U.S. law, most of it “must be spent in the United States on the acquisition of American defense equipment, services and training.”
Israel could do without it and, for the present would be wise to do so, not only because of Washington’s current hostility (freezing arms in the midst of a war shows Obama cannot be trusted) but also because it would show the world that “Israel is not America’s child, nor a vassal state.”
It was Zionist leader (and popular novelist) Ze’ev Jabotinsky who wrote in 1911 that “..there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to – it is long overdue to respond to all current and future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer,‘Go to Hell!'”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a protege of Jabotinsky’s, was more eloquent in 1980 when he responded in writing to Washington’s criticism of the IDF’s bombing of Iraq’s nuclear power plant, obviously intended to make nuclear bombs:
“Now you once again declare that you are punishing Israel. What kind of expression is this — ‘punishing Israel’? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of 14 who, if they don’t behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with ‘punishments.’ He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments.
“You have no right to ‘punish’ Israel — and I protest at the very use of this term.
“The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America — and it will continue to live for another 3,700.”
Of all American presidents and secretaries of state our current iterations (who, thankfully, will be out-of-the-business in 2017) need reminding of this.
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