{"id":1440,"date":"2011-01-29T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T09:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2011-01-29T04:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T09:52:48","slug":"time-to-end-foreign-aid-to-israel-%e2%80%98we-just-can%e2%80%99t-do-it-anymore%e2%80%99-sen-paul-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Time to end foreign aid to Israel: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it anymore,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Sen. Paul warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiowarepublican.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rand-paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/theiowarepublican.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/rand-paul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Rand Paul<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Stephen C. Webster<\/p>\n<p>One of the Senate&#8217;s newest members has settled upon an idea to reduce American debt that&#8217;s likely to come off as highly controversial in the halls of power: ending all foreign aid, including the tens of billions dedicated to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been, by far, the largest recipient of US foreign aid anywhere in the world. Since the inception of Israel&#8217;s close diplomatic relationship with the US all the way through 2008, Americans gave Israel over $103 billion, according to the American Educational Trust.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama in late 2009 approved an additional $2.77 billion for Israeli foreign aid in 2010, and another $30 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s got to stop, according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who told CNN host Wolf Blitzer recently that with such a crushing economic picture in the US, &#8220;we just can&#8217;t do it anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/01\/time-foreign-aid-israel-we-anymore-sen-paul-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/01\/time-foreign-aid-israel-we-anymore-sen-paul-warns\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen C. Webster One of the Senate&#8217;s newest members has settled upon an idea to reduce American debt that&#8217;s likely to come off as highly controversial in the halls of power: ending all foreign aid, including the tens of billions dedicated to Israel. Israel has been, by far, the largest recipient of US foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}