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Should the U.S. continue to support Israel?

Should Portugal continue to support Israel?

The U.S. currently gives $38 billion to Israel every year in foreign aid assistance. Most of the aid is used by Israel to buy American military hardware, such as jets and components for missile defense. $38 billion is 50% of the United States’ foreign aid budget for 2017. Opponents argue that the aid given to Israel is unnecessary since the country provides free healthcare and college tuition to its citizens. Proponents argue that the aid is necessary to promote democracy in the Middle East and maintain a balance of power with other countries in the region.

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Response rates from 2.9k People’s Party voters.

76%
Yes
24%
No
58%
Yes
16%
No
9%
Yes, but respect Israel’s sovereignty and do not dictate how it should interact with its neighbors
6%
No, we should be less involved
7%
We should give equal support to Israel and Palestine.
1%
Not the current administration
1%
Yes, and increase funding in order to move our embassy to Jerusalem
1%
No, cut all support and aid
1%
Yes, and with more aid and support
0%
No, we should not give aid to any foreign nations

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 @9L7HRG6answered…8mos8MO

Humanitarian aid yes , militarily that's too costly . But I prefer a Balanced policy when it comes to Relations with Palestine and Israel

 @8YQW375from Braganca  answered…3yrs3Y

No, we should stand by and help free Palestine

 @8QKTC2Wfrom Leiria  answered…4yrs4Y

Mor familiar with the subject.

 @8X8CS4Vfrom Guarda  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes but with precautions

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Israel Settles for Ceasefire in Lebanon

Many factors fed into Benjamin Netanyahu’s eventual decision to take up a US-brokered ceasefire and stop Israel’s offensive in Lebanon. His war aims against Hizbollah were also always more modest than the “total victory” he has sought against Hamas in Gaza.But in confronting the many domestic critics of the deal — including far-right government ministers, northern Israeli mayors and opposition figures — Netanyahu calculated that his goals had been largely met, while the risks of pushing on were mounting.“Hizbollah is not Hamas. We cannot totally destroy it. It was not on the cards,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Netanyahu who now works at Washington think-tank Jinsa. “Lebanon is too big. Hizbollah is too strong.”This ceasefire deal “is not the dream that many Israelis had”, he said. But Amidror highlighted Israel’s dwindling munition stockpiles and the “pressure” on military reservists who had been fighting for months. “Israel cannot afford another year of war” at its current scale in the north, he said.Israeli officials consistently said their goal was the safe return to their homes of the tens of thousands of northern residents evacuated after Hizbollah began firing on Israel following Hamas’s October 7 attack last year.Officials said this would require pushing Hizbollah fighters back from the Israel-Lebanon frontier and changing the “security reality” along the border.After months of relatively limited exchanges of cross-border fire with Hizbollah, Israel escalated in September, setting off thousands of explosive pagers and walkie-talkies in an audacious covert operation, launching waves of air strikes across Lebanon, and initiating a punishing land invasion of its northern neighbour for the first time in almost two decades.In the span of a few weeks, most of Hizbollah’s leaders, including chief Hassan Nasrallah, were killed, and much of the group’s vast missile and rocket arsenal was destroyed. Israeli warplanes struck Beirut at will, and ground troops ranged across southern Lebanon.