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In reply to the discussion: If Netanyahu stays in power, should the U.S. continue to provide military aid to Israel? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Then yes.
Mind you, I'd have always been ok with that...most of the people living in Israel now would likely always have been safer if they or their parents had been allowed to continue to move to this country(and if the U.S. hadn't adopted what amounted to a "Jewish Exclusion" immigration policy in the 1920's, the vast majority of those who ended up either dead in the Holocaust of living in what became Israel would likely have moved to the U.S. and lived out their lives in peace and prosperity.
The governments of United States and Canada committed a great crime in barring closing the doors to Jewish immigration, and bear, to my mind, shared responsibility for the Holocaust. The U.S. has never apologized for closing the door to those fleeing for their lives.
But it's not going to happen anyway, and I've now shown that I didn't mean anything like you assumed I meant, so you've got nothing to be sanctimonious about.
My position here is pro-common humanity and anti-genocide.