the only reason Israel’s economy exists is because of American aid (Taki)American generosity towards Israel is important and it is welcome with thanks. But Israelis are working very hard to make a living. Does Taki know that Israelis are Number Two in hours worked by person? There is only one people who work more hours than us, the South Koreans. Israel has a strong export economy. Taki is wrong, malignantly wrong.
In fact, Taki is right but mixed up Palestinians and Israelis. The 5 million Palestinian nation produces nothing and are living mostly from US food aid (pic) and UNRWA United NAtions Refugee Assistance - since 1948 (sixty one years of living off foreign generosity). Each Palestinian born receives an UNRWA Refugee Card - even if he/she is sixth generation removed from the original refugee. The Card entitles him to be feed all his life, to receive education and housing, and so on. Enormous "camps" house the descendants of the 1948 refugees, all maintained by the UNRWA, that is, the American taxpayer. Since no one is protesting, America is slated to keep maintaining these parasitic exploding refugee populations forever.I travel much in Samaria and each Palestinian village I see many large USAID signs: here a school, there a village water supply system, all paid by the American taxpayer. All the wastewater treatment plants of Samaria and Judea were built by the German and Nordic Foreign Aid. Unfortunately, none is being maintained and operated. Rich Saudis also build much in the Palestinian Areas: hundreds of magnificent mosques with tall minarets, and madrassas, religious high schools.
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All "aid" ultimately boils down to, Secret Engineer - and it doesn't matter if it's to Israelis via the U.S. or Palestinians through the U.N. - is my labor being apportioned out to others.
I have been allotted a finite time on this earth. Part of that time is stolen to enrich your family in Israel, part of it is stolen to enrich Arab families in Egypt and elsewhere, part of it to enrich African families both in the States and abroad. This used to be called slavery. As a member of a conquered people, I can expect no less. That doesn't mean I have to think it as something beneficial to me.
Dear Anonymous,
You do not sound as an American. Americans are not like this. Americans always have been a very generous people, with Americans and with foreign peoples. When I first toured America I was astonished by openness, friendliness and generosity of the American people, from hitchhiking to offering free food. Every place I arrived there were Salvation Army lodges, missions, etc. (I was travelling alone and was afraid of loosing my money and starve. But in America no one starves nor sleeps under the bridges). I visited universities and factories and people spent lot of his personal time to explain me things and drive me around. That was a generation ago, maybe things are different now. About American assistance to the Palestinians, the intentions are pure and good, but the result is bad, it is no good to feed refugees forever. America, unintentionally, has eternized the morally destructive refugee status of the millions of Palestinians. Whatever you call what Americans are doing in the Middle East, slavery it is not.
Money, which translates as labor, which translates as time, is taken from me against my will, via direct and indirect taxation (and inflation, of course, but that's another matter). That money/labor/time is given to you, it is given to Palestinians, it is given to men and women in various places across the globe that I do not care about. Again, this is done unwillingly. I have had no chance to vote on this. Therefore, I am a slave to these recipients. Perhaps you have a different definition of slavery.
There are not "Americans". There is a government presiding over a vast marketplace called "America". To paraphrase what I wrote over at Sailer's blog recently, what does "American" mean? The Mexican dishwasher, the Chaldean nightclub owner, the Japanese dentist, the WASP voter registration activist, the Jew development executive, the German farmer, the Chinese this, the black that, the Hindoo, the Moslem, the Baptist, the Vietnamese, the Hmong, the Somalis, the Armenians, the globe. It has no meaning anymore beyond mere geography.
The government of the land that I happen to live in represents me and millions like me not at all. It is different for you. Will I see the Secret Water Engineer taxed anytime soon to support my family? Will he be sent over to shovel snow out of my driveway or purchase food for my children or regale me with tales of his animosity for Taki?
As stated previously, I do not expect different treatment. It is the way of the world. My people have not been strong enough to rise out of slavery. I understand my lot.
Your alienation seems exaggerated to me. Spend two weeks in any some country other than America and you will feel strongly American once more. Say travel to India, China, or even to Germany. You will realize how strongly you are American, how much you love your country.
About not liking how your government spends public monies, well, you are lucky to live in a democracy and you can work to change the government without having to go underground and risk your life. It is a privilege few have.
You're presumptuous, Secret Engineer and Future Mayor. I have been all over the globe, from the third world to the first. I have been to your homeland, and I have been places where you are not allowed to travel. Everywhere I have seen the dispossession of my people.
But already this thread degenerates into solipsism. To wrap it up, and to reiterate, I am a slave. My children are slaves. My neighbors are slaves. We live on a vast plantation, and it doesn't matter what name is applied to it - "democracy" for example. Some understand this. Some do not. Some do and pretend not to.
Well, I cannot modify your feeling of being a slave in a vast plantation. As for us teh Jews, we are preparing for Pesach, the annual celebration of our flight form slavery in Egypt. We eat unleavened bread in memory of the haste we left Egypt and eat "maror" - bitter herbs - to remember the bitterness of slavery. "Avadim Hainu".. we were the King's slaves in Egypt... we recite. "Each generation has to see itself as personally liberated from slavery in Egypt." In summary, we are no slaves anymore. No believing Jew, however miserable and bitter, is allowed to see himself as a slave.
I full well understand the group-survival and biological mechanisms that were put into place by the creation of the Egyptian sojourn myth. I have long grasped the evolutionary meaning of Pesach and its rituals, even if many of the Jews I consort with do not. Your people have made sure you would not be slaves on this earth. It is admirable. Your devices and group controls have worked. My people tried a few times. It failed.
It doesn't matter that I live in a nice house here in America, or can enjoy strolls in the forest occasionally. If I do not pay the tribute that is given to you and others, men with guns will take me to prison. It is as simple as that.
Anonymous,
Your share of American aid to Israel comes out to $10 per year. Maybe J can spot you a $10 bill and you'll feel better.
I understand. You dont like to pay taxes and all the regulations they are, and feel that you are not a free man. You dont like how your tax money is being managed by your democratically elected government. Maybe you feel that hidden forces are influencing your life and forcing you to do things you dont want to do. You feel you are a slave to these occult forces. If you dont do what these forces dictate, armed enforcers will come for you. The whole word is a plantation with slaves and masters, puppets and puppeteers. See, the slaves of Jews at least had a hope, as every 49 years it is a Jubilee Year when all slaves are set free and all debts are deleted. AS the Bible says: "Remember that you were slaves of the King in Egypt."
"I understand."
Yeah. Clearly.
It's not about paying taxes - but you know that already. If the labor taken from me by this government was along the lines of צדקה, utilizing group resources to benefit me and mine, I'd have no problem.
No occultism, Future Mayor. Just biology.
Steve,
1) You don't know how much I pay in taxes. You've done a simple money out, divided by population calc. My share's more than $10. However...
2) It would be fine if J spotted me a ten dollar bill this year, plus what my parents paid/pay, plus what my children will pay. Adjusted, of course. Or maybe instead of having J send me my cash you could just pay out my family's share of the tribute. I can put you in touch with my accountant. Or maybe, in that utopian democracy J. speaks of, where no one sleeps under bridges, the whole "foreign aid" concept could be put to a vote. I'm not sure why Israelis, who are second only to Koreans in hours worked, would need my help. Certainly Germans or Finns don't.
3) You can play the funny guy all you want, Steve-O, but a single penny yanked from me without my consent and without my ability to remedy that is slavery.
No taxes without representation.
Or better: No taxes.
I am with you, Anonymous.
J, we do have representation, however our problem is that a large minority of the White population has made common cause with the tax consuming parasites. As such we get outvoted by these parasite Whites and their colored allies.
J said...
You do not sound as an American. Americans are not like this. Americans always have been a very generous people, with Americans and with foreign peoples.
There is a big difference between voluntary generosity and taxation.
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