Originally Posted by
8timechamps
First, our foreign policy isn't "dominated" by Israel. Just because you see a 60 minutes report doesn't make it so, if you can show me some kind of viable source that backs up your statement, I'd be more than happy to educate myself. Have we tried to broker peace in the region? Sure, and for good reason. Do we consider Irael an ally? Sure. Is our government's foreign policy dominated by Israel? No. We have far too many pokers in the fire worldwide to focus the majority of our foreign policy on any one country.
Second, (again), please link to your source of our $10 billion expenditure annually on Israel. I think you're going to find that number very hard to prove from an official source. We don't allocate anywhere near that much money toward Israel.
I agree, living overseas, you don't hear much about Israel. But, living here (in the USA), I don't hear any more/less of Israel. In fact, just about the only time I hear about Israel is when people talk about how worthless it is, and how we pump money into it for no reason.
I'm not Jewish, or particularly too religious, but after reading somewhere online a few years ago that we were giving $10 trillion a year to Israel (I'm serious, just Google it, there are a lot of very misinformed folks out there...not that it's too surprising to see), I decided to really research what and why we actually give.