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Trying to understand your position... do you think Israel, a democracy, shouldn't have been able to decide to make that deal? Who was Israel harming by making
by umanwizard 8y ago
Trying to understand your position... do you think Israel, a democracy, shouldn't have been able to decide to make that deal?
Who was Israel harming by making that decision?
Is a deal made freely and with complete information between two parties always "extortion", if it turns out with the benefit of hindsight not to have turned out to be in the best interests of one of the parties?
- Fomite 8y agoThey never said they shouldn't have been able to decide to make that deal - but rather that they shouldn't have made it. Presumably who was harmed was Israelis who could have benefitted from a government with more money to spend elsewhere.
- Apocryphon 8y agoWas the information truly complete? Extortion is probably not the best label, "rip-off" might be more accurate.
- avip 8y agoI must be really bad at phrasing thoughts. Isreal was "harming" itself and its taxpayers (normal people like me), same way NY taxpayers would undoubtedly IMO be "harmed" (in the sense of their hard-won money being ill-invested). Is it extortion? I guess not literally, only in spirit. It is just bad investment with negative long-term ROI. NY could have supported thousands of SMBs instead, and that builds more resilient, diverse and sustainable economy long-term.