NANCY LOVES TO GET THAT PORK ON HER FORK.

To investigate the level of well-being of gays, lesbians and bisexuals (GLBs) in Botswana, how this level of well-being could be promoted and whether their health care needs were met by health care professionals. It is illegal to engage in same-sex activities in Botswana, punishable by imprisonment. Although Botswana's citizens have one of Africa's best health care systems, little is known about the health status, health care needs and general well-being of Botswana's GLBs.

Whatever.

$500 million (in addition to the normal 4 billion per year) to Israel.

Got something against the Jews?

Got something against Muslims?

Heck no, I just want everyone to live freely. Now, I presume you're referring to the Israeli "invasion" of Palestine, but the fact is that Israel has the most legitimate claim to the region, which dates back to the original wording of the British agreement to cede that land for a new Jewish state.

Actually I was referring to the budget for Pakistan gays.

I don't know how the money is specifically helping them, so I don't want to misspeak on the matter. Care to elucidate?

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/israel-suspends-annexation-west-bank-%E2%80%93-its-controversial-settlements-continue-166941

An interesting summation of the subject is provided above.

Got something against gays?

I disagree with them on a few matters, but fully support their possession of equal rights under civil law.

I'm Roman Catholic. We disagree with certain aspects of their lives (E.G you can't generally be LGBTQ+ and expect to obtain a Catholic [different from a civil] marriage), but it's also our policy to NOT infringe upon their livelihood in any way outside of strictly religious matters. Since science seems, at this time, to indicate that sexuality is an immutable characteristic, it'd be despicable and tyrannical to try and force change upon them...that'd be like trying to change someone's skin color.

I can link you some actual Apologetics material on the subject if you wish, which would elucidate our views and the moral defense of our holding them while still considering them equal to us (we're all human after all).

Immutable with humans, that is? Because....

Given we're talking about humans, it would be logical that everything I said would apply to humans exclusively as well.

Unless you want to talk about hermaphroditic slugs or something...

Or clownfish and such....

lol

Upvoted in turn! I dislike the notion that disagreeing with someone means I have to hate them...I don't have liberals, even though I disagree with them on many things. I certainly have opinions on things like sexuality, but they're just that; opinions. So long as I can live my life and hold my views I'm 100% committed to defending their right to do the same.

But to answer you more direct: nope. I don’t care about religion. They all suck. I have something against pissing away money. Israel is a money pit and a way for more money to be funneled from tax payers to the military weapon industry.

Being a majority Jewish state doesn’t factor into it at all. We don’t need them as an ally in the area. They cause us more problems in the area and $4Billion a year to have them. What they are is a great missile/defense customer for Raytheon and the like. So....we find them, they spend it on arms and defense companies profit. It’s a shell game of bullshittery.

Yours is a pretty isolated view, most of us do consider them a vital pro-America ally in the region.

How have we benefited by having them as an ally there? and at what costs associated?

Well for one they're the most free and powerful regional entity over there, so if we really care about spreading democracy we'd better be maintaining good relations with them. The only other way we've spread democracy has been the "let's go to war without declaring it" fashion, and that hasn't ended so well (or at all, looking at Afghanstan).

Having allies is always a good thing. Israel is the best candidate in the region, therefore it is our responsibility to maintain good economic relationships with them.

Afghanistan*

Hasn’t worked yet. Time to pull up.

Also using your own logic we should be happy to spend money closer to home with our neighbors and hemispheric neighbors like Cuba, Venezuela and literally every other country from Mexico south.

The difference between Israel and pretty much any of those countries is this; you can't build goodwill through money alone. Israel-U.S relations had the advantage of both countries holding similar ideologies (freedom of expression, democracy, etc), and we've built up from there. The countries you cited don't generally like us, so we'd be better off utilizing other methods of soft-power to achieve our goals, rather than just bankrolling their programs.

Again: how has the 100’s of billions spent in and on Israel helped us?

*fund not find...typo

LOL! Good one! 👍🏻

And she’s a dumbo!