Shapiro has a point about Israel taking aid
Not everything Ben Shapiro has to say impresses me, but he does have an interesting point about why Israel shouldn't be relying heavily on USA aid. This was written before the election, but still has what to ponder:
Q: What do you think Israel should do if Kamala Harris wins?Well he's right that Israel for one can't keep relying on foreign aid from anybody. On the other hand, Israel should speak in defense of the defenseless, and should fully defend for example, apostates from Islam and women and children's safety worldwide. And if anybody with common sense wants to convert to Judaism, it shouldn't be made overly difficult with absurdities like dress codes, gender segregated transportation and buses, and whether or not men and women should shake hands with each other. Such poor notions the Haredis took to extremes have to be dropped, especially if Judaists want to distinguish themselves with a positive image. That way, things can be made better.
"I think that Israel should do the same thing whether Kamala wins or whether Kamala loses. I think what Israel needs to recognize, and I've said this to every prime ministerial candidate for the last 10 years, is Israel needs to become self-sufficient. Israel always needed to be self-sufficient. They need to be more militarily self-sufficient, they need to get off of American aid, and they need to generate an economic dynamism, unleash the economy over there sufficient to pay for all of that. What we've seen in the aftermath of October 7 is that Israel cannot be reliant on the goodwill of other nations, because that is a very precarious place to be. You don't want to be Blanche DuBois in this Tennessee Williams play. You don't want to be reliant on the kindness of strangers. And Israel has sustained itself by attempting moral suasion for several decades at this point. And it turns out that moral suasion doesn't go all that far. What actually goes far is the raw ability to sustain yourself. And so that means on an economic level is radical deregulation of the economy in Israel. It means allowing businesses to thrive and succeed. It means that it shouldn't take 300 days to do a real estate deal. It means that the taxes are way too high on literally everything, which is why half of real estate deals are now black-market real estate deals. It means that you shouldn't have to have a cousin in one of the, in a "misrad" [referring to a generic ministry in Israel] somewhere in order to get something done. It means that the stranglehold that Histadrut [the main public service Israel trade union] has on labor needs to stop. The economy can't shut down every time somebody has a political gripe. All these things need to be done. And that's not a political point. That is, that is a reality. Either Israel's going to do that and have a dynamic economy because Israel has very, very high social fabric, high IQ, high confidence levels. And all of that is being held up. Like as everyone who is American who's ever visited Israel recognizes the miracle of Israel is that it works at all because the system is so gummed up and so ridiculous that it is sheerly through sort of bootstrapping and personal connections that anybody can get anything done over there. I mean, it's insane. "You want a powerful military, you need to have a powerful economy capable of paying for all of those things. Make business easier. It'll be easier to pay for all of these things. Israel is a large enough, powerful enough country, economically speaking, that they should not have to rely on $3 billion in American military aid. The GDP in Israel is like $500 billion a year. Why is $3 billion in military aid deciding factor and how Israel makes its foreign policy? That's crazy. Israel, Israel should be an easy one. And, and by the way, Israel is going to be forced to whether they're like it or not because eight to 10 years from now, I think that there's a, the, the direction of American foreign policy is moving away from…But even though if, even if, you know, we don't need some day the aid from the Americans, we still need, out of his values we'll say, the veto in the Security Council. So we're still, you know, tied to America in that sort of way."
Q: Israeli diplomatic circles might tell you: Even if we don't need American military aid, we still need the American veto at the UN Security Council, so we can't ignore Washington's demands.
"I mean, first of all, I think that, so my view of the UN Security Council is significantly, I think the UN is a ridiculous organization on its face. I think that the idea that if Israel gets hit with a Security Council resolution, that somehow this is the end of the world, that is not true. What matters in international politics is raw, pure power. That's all that matters in international politics. And Israelis should start to understand that the, how is China or Russia able to get away with things? They're very powerful, large."
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