The sins of the father...

The sins of the father shall not be visited upon the son. That's a truism of justice. During WWII, I lost many relatives as did countless others globally. We have all been denied the natural inheritance and passing of support, advice and wealth as a result. Russians, Germans, Jews, and British (pretty much in that order). Now the Germans were the bad guys. But that makes not one whit of difference to those born after. All they can appreciate is the lack of available initial support for their lifes' plans. So the cash support in the Billions of dollars to Israel every year amounts to a subversion of loudly exhorted democracy/meritocracy. I'm sure if my neighbourhood got US$3 Billion a year as does Israel (from the USA alone - Germany and others also chip in masses of cash and non-cash aid), I'd be doing a damn site better! This support amounts to a world-view system where the guy with the best sob story from history will get extra resources allocated at the expense of others who are equally moral and innocent, but don't feel it's right to play that kind of "angle" to get by...

Additionally - the "we're so sorry, here's more guilt money" funds are illegal by international law anyway. You're not allowed to give ODA to a country with nuclear weapons. If they choose to use societal monies to build atomic WMD's you obviously don't want to encourage this direction of funding flow by propping up their other community needs, obviously!

And so folks, last point... that's why Obama recently and America always (excepting President Carter) never openly admit knowledge of Israel's 120+ nuclear missiles...

Think about that money the next time you can't afford to send your kids to University.