The American objective for tax dollars being used to support Israel?

[Rev. Rye]

Hey, at least they don't kill their own citizens over trivial things like extramarital sex (including homosexuality), consensual heterosexual sodomy, or not being a part of the dominant religion.

I guess I'm not willing to set the bar that low, Rev. Recall that the OP was about using American tax dollars to support this bunch of murdering fuckheads.

Of course, this is the Middle East we're talking about. At this point, I don't think there's any area in the world where the human rights situation is so bad that a state that engages in war crimes and glorified apartheid to the degree that Israel does can still be, far and away, one of the more enlightened nations in the area.

It's really something saying that the only other nation that comes close to being as democratic as Israel in the area blocks entire websites critical of the government, retains an almost Kim Il-Sung-level of cult of personality over its founder, and actually had its only Nobel Prize winner arrested for acknowledging that the Armenian genocide happened; and under a law that didn't even exist when he made the incriminating comments, no less.

Really, when the closest things to free states in the area have such horrible human rights records, I think it's perfectly reasonable to set the bar that low.