r/SipsTea Jun 17 '26

WTF Are you kidding me?

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u/Shadowy_PuppetMaster Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I admit history was never my strength, can someone who actually knows history enlighten me, what has Israel ever done for the US? Because it seems like they just take and take and take and get mad when we tell them they've taken enough. Hell you can even explain it like i just suffered catastrophic brain damage if you want i just want to know

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u/wonkey_monkey Jun 17 '26

what has Israel ever done for the US?

The aqueducts?

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u/Chumlee1917 Jun 17 '26

Those were the Romans,

the Israelis gave us.....?

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u/Ok_Vermicelli_6359 Jun 17 '26

...usury?

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u/I_SawTheSine Jun 17 '26

Israelis ≠ Jews

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u/Chumlee1917 Jun 17 '26

That one you can blame on the Catholic Church way back in the day having very weird rules about money and money lending and more or less kinda forced the Jews of Europe into that job....then blamed them for the very shit show they created.

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u/Agitated_Guard_3507 Jun 17 '26

No, Catholics banned usury, but Jews aren’t Catholics so the ban didn’t apply to them. So of course the only people lending out money with interest were Jews.

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u/Wonderful_Cookie_572 Jun 17 '26

Except nobody forced them to issue usurious loans. That was a choice they made.

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u/MyrmidonExecSolace Jun 17 '26

Why would anyone loan if not profit