Joshua Boyd
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@RapidResponse47 He does understand why they closed again right?
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JD Vance said Israel was “built with American money.”
That sounds great to people who learned Middle Eastern history from campaign slogans.
But it is not history. It is political theater from someone who discovered Israel yesterday morning.
Israel was not built by an American check.
Israel was built by Jewish money, Jewish labor, Israeli taxes, Zionist institutions, loans, diaspora donations, Israel Bonds, German reparations, austerity, immigration, sacrifice, industry, agriculture, and people who did not wait for Washington.
Long before Israel existed as a state, Jews in the land were already building towns, farms, kibbutzim, schools, universities, banks, defense groups, factories, hospitals, roads, and national institutions.
Before “American aid,” Jews put coins into blue JNF boxes.
Before billion-dollar defense packages, Holocaust survivors built a country from tents, ration cards, sweat, and trauma.
In 1948, when Israel declared independence and five Arab armies invaded, America did not “build” Israel’s army. America recognized Israel, which mattered, but the U.S. also supported an arms embargo.
Israel survived its first war not because America built it, but because Jews fought for their lives with too little money, too little ammunition.
So where did the money come from?
From Jews in the diaspora.
From Keren Hayesod.
From the Jewish National Fund.
From Israel Bonds.
From Israeli taxpayers.
From loans.
From German reparations.
From austerity.
From exports, agriculture, factories, innovation, and people working like their lives depended on it.
In 1951, Israel launched Israel Bonds to raise money from Jewish communities and investors abroad. That was not foreign aid. That was a young state borrowing money, building infrastructure, and paying it back.
In 1952, Israel signed reparations with West Germany. That money helped the young state absorb hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors and immigrants while recovering from severe shortages.
And Israelis themselves paid the real price.
The austerity years were not a slogan. Israel absorbed mass immigration, built housing, roads, ports, schools, hospitals, factories, and an army — while citizens lived under rationing, taxes, shortages, and a controlled economy.
Israel was not born because America clicked “send payment.”
Yes, America later became a crucial ally.
Yes, American military aid is important.
Yes, real friendship deserves gratitude.
But there is a massive difference between helping an ally become stronger and claiming you built that ally.
American aid helped strengthen Israel.
It did not create Israel.
By the time U.S. aid became central to Israel’s defense, Israel had already been founded, survived wars, built institutions, absorbed millions of immigrants, and turned itself from a poor country under rationing into a serious economy.
That is the part Vance wants to erase.
Israel was not a Washington real estate project.
Israel was not a startup that got seed funding from America.
Israel was not a charity case with a flag.
Israel was a nation that came home, built before it had sovereignty, fought before it had enough weapons, absorbed refugees before it had enough houses, built an economy before it had enough foreign currency, and became strong before American politicians started taking credit.
Today, Israel is one of the world’s most advanced economies. Its high-tech, cyber, defense, medical, agricultural, and AI innovation help the United States and the free world.
That did not come from foreign aid. It came from human capital, education, military necessity, research, risk-taking, and Jewish survival instinct.
America is an important ally.
But America is not Israel’s parent.
America is not Israel’s owner.
And America does not get to erase 3,000 years of Jewish identity and 78 years of Israeli sacrifice with one cheap populist line.
Israel was built with Jewish money, Israeli hands, Israeli brains, and Jewish blood.
America helped.
Israel built.
There is a huge difference.
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VANCE: “We were right on the cusp of a major breakthrough… and then there’s a big explosion in a civilian area in Beirut, killing people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah.
That’s not acceptable.”
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⭕️ Israel’s far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir responds to Vice President JD Vance: “For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry. All of Lebanon should burn.”
He writes:
“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not up for grabs. All of Lebanon should burn. Our highest duty is to protect Israel’s citizens and IDF soldiers, and that commitment comes before any other consideration.
I tell the Prime Minister, including in our meetings: for every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry.
Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you do not win through measured responses and restraint. You have to go crazy. Erase. Defeat terrorism.”
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Baris: Gen X and Millennial men are willing to burn the Republican Party down if it doesn't detach itself from Israel.
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If nukes existed Israel would be using them right now. They don’t. Yes nuclear energy exists, yes big bombs exist, but the existential “I am death destroyer of worlds” fable is a laughable flex by incest gremlins.
Their actual weapon of mass destruction is Larry loomers tweets
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It sounds like Vance thinks Iran is America’s ally, and Israel is the one calling America “the Great Satan.”
What a loser.
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Anyone can see what JD Vance is doing. While his boss leaks private conversations, smears Netanyahu in every media outlet, belittles Israel, praises those who seek its destruction, and claims it wouldn't exist without him, JD Vance is busy pretending that Israel is the aggressor.
The entire world can see Netanyahu's statesmanship and the grace with which he conducts his foreign policy. They can see the respect he still shows a man who betrayed him in front of the entire world.
JD Vance isn't fueling this disaster. He is the fuel.
The saddest part isn't the betrayal. It's watching them pretend the world is too stupid to recognize it.
We will all pay the price for the greed and arrogance behind their actions. And history will remember who did this.
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I just love how Michelle Obama towers over every other male President and their wives.
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@Flor_de_P Sos una irresponsable kirchnerista resentida del orto. Pedis perdon pero te cagabas de risa, sos una psicopata.
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Pido perdón a la familia Messi por el momento espantoso que imagino que están viviendo. Estoy muy avergonzada de haber sido el vehículo para este dolor.
Tengo que aclarar que esta falsa información me fue brindada en medio del vivo como chequeada por cucaracha por la producción del programa y yo confié.
Aún así me hago cargo de que soy parte del error y es por eso que decidí dar un paso al costado y concluir mi participación en Luzu .
Vuelvo a pedir perdón de corazón, me equivoqué.
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@VladTheInflator That last sentence said something. He explains its the American peoples money and labor that they receive so they dont need to worry about the president. They should worry about us.
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Oh shit, they're putting those fucking bitches in their fucking place.
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@BasilTheGreat I wonder if they're ok with it being the other way around.
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The father of a Pakistani gang rapist does not see what his son has done as rape
He blames the 13 year old victim
This is how these people think
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@justafigurehead @DRR53EE @VividProwess Its fair for us to debate. I think we all have a lot to learn, including myself.
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