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The question here is why is only Israel covered in this act?

Also anti-BDS legislation in finance, regardless of ethical etc. concerns?

The US gives $4bn/year to Israel gratis, and so far $20bn in weapons over the course of this conflict, including advanced weapons like the F35 WITH source code access (which no other F35 partner has) - why?

There have been no investigations of US deaths WRT settler violence, aid workers killed etc. Normally with any US death it's a huge issue.

What does Israel do in return to make it such a favoured country? eg. 20bn in disaster relief aid to Florida would be probably more welcome by US citizens.

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threemux 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's not only Israel. It's all of NATO plus "major non-NATO allies" specifically Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand

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IncreasePosts 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We give Jordan $1.6B/year, what does it give in return? What about Ethiopia at $2B/yr?

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shihab 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The biggest condition behind US aid to Jordan and Egypt is them continuing friendly relations with Israel. In 1970s when this aid was started- this condition was made very explicit by USA.

So in other words, these two at least are nothing but indirect aid to Israel.

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alexisread 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could ask the same questions about that yes, but whataboutism does not answer the questions here.

For Ethiopia it's flagged as humanitarian aid, and likely for Jordan as a result of the neighbouring Syria war.

None of that is arms though, and critically more than the aid, why the legislation?

What justifies making it illegal to stop investing in a country despite it's actions? Surely that's a commercial decision rather than a legislative one?

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talldayo 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We gave Pakistan and Iran a few billion dollars in military aid a while back. What we got in return was a Bangladesh genocide and an Islamic revolution.

Lesson learned: arms sales can be used to ideologically justify butchering civilians if the government receiving that aid is not held accountable.