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Hamas found the money, manpower and engineering expertise for over 700km of terror tunnels, but drainage wasn't in the budget.

— Driftwood (@buc97552) November 9, 2026

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After Vance said that The Jewish community at large, especially in Israel, got upset and looked at Vance as an enemy of Israel and of the Jews, an antisemite. Vance has been suspect in many's eyes all along, ever since he became Vice President (eg he is friends with Tucker and has distanced himself from Israel in many ways), and I am not here to debunk that - maybe he is, maybe he is not. I do think that even if perhaps Vance could have worded thigns differently, essentially he said the truth. As I wrote then, the narrative in the USA was that Israel dragged the US into a war they did not want that caused inflation and especially high gas prices and they were being forced to pay for Israel's genocide. Right or wrong, that was the narrative in the USA and almost nothing was done, at least not effectively, to rewrite that. So even if that claim is not accurate or true, JD Vance was correct when he said that this was [one of] the reason[s] for the midterm results.

Now, President Trump has confirmed Vance's statement and also sayid, in his interview with 60 Minutes, that one of the reasons for the Republican midterm losses was that people in the USA really don't like Israel.

so now do we get upset at President Trump for blaming Israel for the Republican midterm losses? Trump is an antisemite, anti-Israel? I don't think he is, just the opposite. He has been very good to Israel (even if in other ways he allowed antisemites to flourish) overall. Maybe he just worded it slightly better, or maybe he mentioned it but focused on it less than the other reasons....calling people antisemites when they say things we don't like is the easy way out but it is not always true.

  -- President of the USA Donald Trump, in an interview with 60 Minutes

Are we about to owe the USA an estimated 47 billion dollars? The 4 billion in aid we are giving up next year seems like peanuts compared to this....

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The proposed tax would seemingly, if I understand it correctly, be levied on the airlines per flight, and the exact fee would depend on the type of flight and airplane with small planes on domestic routes being taxed 1300nis and and long haul flights being taxed about 100,000nis. 

The airlines would then pass the cost on to the passengers by dividing that tax charge among the passengers booked on the flight. Passengers on dmoestic flights would pay an additional 12nis (estimated) per flight, international short to medium haul passengers (such as on flights to Europe or other nearby locations) would pay about 58nis, and [assengers on long haul flights would pay an additional 274nis.

Get ready to pay more. All these long wars and defense spending cost money, the 4 billion in military aid from the US is going away, and they have to find more things to tax to raise the money.

This is just a proposal for now, and has not yet been accepted or rejected. They are looking at other tax alternatives as well. And they will probably choose all the options!

source: Ynet

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I am not so apocalyptic.. but it is an interesting debate I am hearing all over now...what do you think?

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I am hearing some criticism of Vance and even of Trump that they are blaming it on Israel, he's no friend of ours, etc.

One does not need to be a big talmid chochom or world renown political analyst to know that what he said is true, even if it is superficial (not of Vance but of the voters).

Ever since October 7 2023, and especially since the Iran wars/operations, the American people have increasingly been blaming their problems (gas prices, inflation, etc) on the Iran War (probably fairly) and on Trump/USA being beholden to Israel (more complicated and nuanced than the claim that America is fighting Israel's war for Israel and paying them too much money, but that's the way it has been). Whether it is fair or not, Israel and the war has increasingly been the friction point in the USA, and around much of the world. There has been basically no other talking point or agenda, and everything gets turned back o the war and Israel. 

I know Trump said every now and then that he is not fighting for Israel, that it is Iran's fault, Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, that gas prices are not so bad, but he did not really do anything significant to change the messaging. And Netanyahu also did not do anything to change the messaging from Israel's side. 

And announcing on election day that the military aid for Israel will soon stop was a nice attempt to get some voters back but it was way too little way too late.

While Vance might or might not be anti-Israel, this statement is 100% true and is not specifically anti-Israel sentiment, just a breakdown of what happened. I would not say it is Israel's fault, and I dont think Vance said that either, but it is because of how Trump and the USA handled Iran and Israel.

  -- President of the USA Donald J Trump

he is popular here but not quite as popular as he used to be.... definitely not 99%

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