The U.S. Should Maintain its Alliance with Israel

Counter argumentsSimilar interestsMy opponent would like to claim that Israel and the United States are similar in morals, rights and values. HOwever given the reality of Israel's racial laws and unfair discrimination this hardly seems to be the case. While the US Constitution treats all races and ethnicities equal, Israel has implemented laws that are 'jew-centered' and discriminatory towards those of gentile origin especially those of palestinian origin.Ex1) Israel creates Jewish only roads and Jewish only settlements. Explanation- This would have been analogous to America making White only roads and white only settlements. However America does not do that because it has better morales than israel. Ex 2) Israel has created apartheid walls and military checkpoints where Jews can travel freely but Palestinians are often detained for long periods of time, sometimes dying because they are unable to reach hospitals in emergency situations. Pregnant women and their unborn children have died in the shadows of those killing, dividing apartheid barriers. Explanation-This would have been analogous to America setting checkpoints along its border where whites can travel freely but mexicans are held back for long periods of time, sometimes dying because they cannot reach hospitals.Ex 3) Anyone with a Jewish mother can "return" to Palestine and become a citizen of Israel, even though they and their ancestors have not lived in the region for more than a thousand years. But Palestinians whose families lived in Palestine as recently as 1948 are not allowed to return, even if they have clear deeds to land that was stolen from them during the Nakba (Arabic for "Catastrophe"). Explanation- This would have been analogous to America allowing those with white mothers to return to mexico and become a citizen of theUnited States even though they haven't lived in the region for very long while Mexicans who may have lived in America the whole time are not allowed to return to America, even if they had rights to the land that was stolen from them.Modern day America does not endorse racial laws and racism but Israel does. This indicates dissimilar interests about equality. American funding no doubt goes into the salaries of these racist lawmaakers thus promoting racism and discrimination! Palestinian lawsMy opponent would like to present Palestine as an oppressive state. While it is not a democracy, it does have basic human rights laws. "The PA has guaranteed freedom of assembly to the Palestinian population, and its Legislation states this." "Many Jewish and Christian holy sites remain in areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority. Under the Oslo Accords, Palestinians agreed to respect and protect religious rights of Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Samaritans by a) protecting the Holy Sites, 2) providing free access to the Holy Sites, and assuring freedom of worship and practice. a. Protection of the Holy Sites; b. Free access to the Holy Sites; and c. Freedom of worship and practice. "PeaceThe very creation of israel has caused non stop turmoil in the Middle East and to this day it is the biggest ongoing military conflict. Israel forcefully displaced the indigenous Palestinian people and Israel and Palestine have been at conflict ever since. It seems the very existence of israel is causing the conflict and the only solution would be a peaceful disbandment of israel. Thus funding israel has created conflict rather than peace. In its report, Human Rights Watch said that, “Two of the three attacks Human Rights Watch investigated – in Beit Hanun and Jabalya – did not appear to target a military objective or were otherwise unlawfully indiscriminate. The third attack in Rafah was unlawfully disproportionate, if not otherwise indiscriminate. Unlawful attacks carried out willfully – that is, deliberately or recklessly – are war crimes.” This makes israel's attacks unjustified. ArgumentsParamilitant groups on the rise due to America supporting israel's existence.In the Middle East Hamas is one of the many paramilitant groups created in response to Israel and Western support for it. " Hamas Charter affirmed in 1988, that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli Occupation " Thus Israel and the US funding it continues to provide the reason and justification for the existence of Hamas.In the USAAs we all know America has suffered a horrendous terrorist attack on 9/11 at the hands of Al Qaeda. The reason AL Qaeda attacks America or even exists has been made very very clear. It is due America's continued support for Israel and terrorist groups will continue to terrorize Americans as long as America supports Israel.American unemployment, inflation, and tax $$ "The Senate ended its session today before scampering home by (in effect) transferring a quarter billion dollars from unemployed Americans to Israel instead, so the nuclear-armed Superpower of the Middle East could improve its air defense system." Thus we can see many Americans that could have been hired by the government to increase productivity in society instead are being unemployed and themoney gone to israel. " On this basis the $84.8 billion in grants, loans and commodities Israel has received from the U.S. since 1949 cost the U.S. an additional $49,936,880,000 in interest. There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all of the $45.6 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979 (compared to $4.2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt for the preceding 26 years). U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, which is pegged at two-thirds of U.S. foreign aid to Israel, averages $2.2 billion per year. There also have been immense political and military costs to the U.S. for its consistent support of Israel during Israel’s half-century of disputes with the Palestinians and all of its Arab neighbors. In addition, there have been the approximately $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees and perhaps $20 billion in tax-exempt contributions made to Israel by American Jews in the nearly half-century since Israel was created. Even excluding all of these extra costs, America’s $84.8 billion in aid to Israel from fiscal years 1949 through 1998, and the interest the U.S. paid to borrow this money, has cost U.S. taxpayers $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Or, put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis received from the U.S. government by Oct. 31, 1997 has cost American taxpayers $23,240 per Israeli." As we can see Israel has costed America tremendous amounts of taxpayer money and increased debt. One final thing I'd like to mention before ending my argument is the concept of root cause analysis to the problems addressed above. To address my point, I will use the human body, immune system, and parasites as anaglogies to Middle East, Paramilitary groups, and israel respectively. ( I'm not trying to call Israel a parasite, it's just that using this analogy requires one party to be anaglogous to an infection)One day the human body gets a parasite infection and the immune system responds to this infection but the immune system causes damage in the process. There are 2 solutions we can take to this problem. We can either do as my opponent would suggest and try to protect the body from the immune system by aiding the parasite against the immune system or we can use root cause analysis and solve the root of the problem which would be in this case, Israel. Instead of helping the parasite. we get rid of the parasite, then no immune response to the parasite is needed and no more harm to the body done by either the parasite or the immune system. The reason I propose this solution is because I expect my opponent to address the issue of paramilitary groups by trying to help Israel which caused their formation in the first place and continually gives them reason to exist. http://www.thehypertexts.com...http://en.wikipedia.org...http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... https://www.google.com...http://www.ifamericansknew.org... http://www.dailykos.com...#