I'll tell you what, if we had withheld our funding for Isreal [sic] ten years ago, they would have settled with the Palestinians before you could say the word "money".
I agree. But, to be blunt, whether the two sides settle or keep fighting isn't terribly important to me; I personally don't care much about the Palestinians, the Israelis, or their respective whining about borders, walls, mythology, laughably-interpreted history, and the like. It's not my land, and it's not my fight.
However, what I do think we as a nation could do - and in my opinion what the U.S. should do - is to remove, completely and unconditionally, the financial element which however directed or characterized makes all of us a party to their ongoing dispute. For that matter, I am categorically against any U.S. taxpayer-funded, government expenditures directed to any foreign governments, regardless of where they fall on the spectrum from humanitarian to military aid.
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