{"id":46514,"date":"2024-03-10T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=46514"},"modified":"2024-03-10T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T18:12:35","slug":"stop-all-u-s-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/10\/stop-all-u-s-aid-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop All U.S. Aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n

I have a modest proposal: Stop all U.S. aid to Israel. Why does Israel need billions and billions in aid, mainly so they can buy U.S. weaponry? If they need it, they can pay for it. And if they\u2019re going to use U.S. weapons to kill massive numbers of innocent Palestinians in Gaza, America shouldn\u2019t sell them the weapons no matter what Israel is willing to pay.<\/p>\n

Am I anti-Israel? Anti-semitic? Only if IDF General (and war hero) Matti Peled was.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what Israeli general Matti Peled had to say about U.S. aid to Israel:<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil 1974, Israel had not received foreign aid money and we did fine. Receiving free money, money you have not earned and for which you do not have to work, is plain and simply corrupting.\u201d His son, Miko Peled, then added that his father consistently argued \u201cthat the weapons the U.S. sold [or gave] to Israel were corrupting the country and were being used to maintain the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miko Peled wrote that his dad consistently said \u201cIt is bad for Israel, it is morally wrong, and it is illegal\u201d (cited on page 68). Again, was General Matti Peled, IDF war hero, anti-Semitic? A self-hating Jew? Of course not. He was a moral, principled, courageous person who fought against Israel\u2019s oppression of Palestinians. His son Miko continues that fight.<\/p>\n

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Miko Peled recounted his dad\u2019s position in \u201cThe General\u2019s Son: Journey of An Israeli in Palestine,\u201d published in 2012 by Just World Books. I first learned of the Peled family\u2019s activism against Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people in an interview between Miko Peled and Chris Hedges<\/a> in January of this year. I highly recommend both that interview and Miko Peled\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF). He taught history for fifteen years at military and civilian schools. He writes at Bracing Views<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. I have a modest proposal: Stop all U.S. aid to Israel. Why does Israel need billions and billions in aid, mainly so they can buy U.S. weaponry? If they need it, they can pay for it. And if they\u2019re going to use U.S. weapons to kill massive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-46514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Israel, a Rich Country, Can Pay Its Way"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46514"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46531,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46514\/revisions\/46531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}