Garandman, you are intelligent enough to figure out the blatant differences here.  Ponder the idea of comparing apples to oranges.  

On another vein, are you obsessed with this topic?  It sure seems like it.  I am not attacking you, just wondering.  It would seem we support Israel, only because it is expedient and in OUR best interest to do so.  That's it.  It provides a measure of stability and security for our petroleum interests in the region.  Israel, as far as I know, has little or no oil, so we have to assist them in order for them to exist.  Even the Arab countries who are our "buddies" hate us, and only tolerate us due to their own needs.  We need Israel, Israel needs us.  Simple symbiosis.  The relationship is not always beneficial to either, but is necessary for both.  My understanding is, Israel helps us in ways that are not always made public.  

Welfare to a person is a government payment to support an individual who is unable [rolleyes] to support themselves. It [b]could[/b] be a compassionate dole to help those unable to help themselves – the blind, crippled, retarded... What is really was/is was a payment by the government to those who were giving birth to so many children and who did so poorly in the free public schools that they were unable to keep a job or chose not to work so that they could support themselves. If you pay someone for a behavior generally you'll get more of it. This is social studies 101.

For the welfare system we got what we paid for: unemployed women having children out of wedlock to the point where the majority of children born today don't have a father in the home. It's several times worse in the inner cities then the more rural areas. The system went though major changes back in the mid/late 90's and I believe that things are changing towards the better.

Foreign aid to countries is again a carrot to encourage some behavior that ought to better our country. Supporting Israel's attempt at democracy within the Middle East should encourage them and other countries to become freer.

There is also the enemy of my enemy is my friend theory where we've had recent run-ins with some of the Arab nations (Lebanon, Iraq, Iran) and Israel has been in open war with some of them. Similar to our support of Taiwan against the Chinese Communist, and South Korea against the Communist North Koreans we support the Israeli people in their struggles against their larger more numerous hostile neighbors. It does make them more dependant upon us but sometimes people and nations do need support.

If you get hit by a bus does the paramedic error when they bring you to the hospital thus making you dependant upon the heath care system? If your young child was threatened by an adult you would get involved pretty quickly. If the argument was “Is Israel strong enough to now stand on its own?” was made this would be a different argument. Why Israel needs support should be simple to figure.

If you take in the expense of the tens of thousands of Army troops stationed in Korea I believe that the aid given to Israel would look smaller. Yet who trashes the Koreans for needing our hundreds of millions of dollars a year of support? How many people bring up the tens of thousand of Air Force and Navy personnel lending support to a Japanese country threatened by no neighbor? From who are we now protecting a united Germany from – the former USSR?

Last time I checked a welfare form there was no special disqualification based on color. Nor have the American racial purity boards been very active in the past few years assigning a government mandated and approved color to subjects. There are plenty of poor subjects in this nation on welfare with what might be called white, browns, red, and yellow skin.

No. It's a flawed question.

The real question is why do you perceive these situations in the way you do?