American Involvement in Israel/Palestine Conflict

Regardless of what conflict and where I believe that all people should strive to develop an opinion. For the fact that the United States has a free press, freedom of speech, and certain financle freedoms I feel that these tools need to be used on behalf of oppressed people who cannot use them themselves. The Israeli-Palestinian does go a step further, however. This conflict should be important to U.S. citizens, not only for the reasons listed above, but also because we already have a national "opinion" exercised through foreign aid policy that provides Israel with an average of $7 million a day in military aid. The United States does support the Palestinians with humanitarian aid but notany military aid what-so-ever.

The point I'm trying to make is that the United States chooses not to "audit" Israel's aid and passively accepts that Israel can use U.S. taxpayer money on perceived enemies. At the same time, The U.S. scrupulously earmarks all aid to Palestinians, belittling the people that are the obvious sufferers of the conflict.

I believe that we should be more conscious of what our money is being used to do. Also, asking the question: why are we aiding the military of one of the most developed countries of the world?

http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/245-2008-november/3845-congress-watch-a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf