和许多美国人一样，我对美国对以色列的军事援助持怀疑态度，无他，我总体上认为我们不应为另一个国家的安全买单。我很乐意向他们出售武器，用于打击想要杀害美国人的恐怖分子，但他们应该付全款。不过，我认为专门强调对以色列的外国资助是美国人买不起食品杂货的主要原因，这并不公平。我们有一万亿美元的赤字，在国防、医疗保险和社会保障等所有类别上都大肆挥霍。
Like many Americans, I am skeptical of U.S. military aid to Israel, for no other reason than I generally don’t think we should pay for another nation’s security. I’m happy to sell them weapons to fight terrorists who want to kill Americans, but they should pay full price.
这才是问题所在。也许这就是为什么由Cenk Uygur的Rebellion PAC发布的这则广告让我感到非常反感。请看。首先，那260亿美元是两年前由国会拨款的。拜登总统对此签字批准。这则广告的叙事框架是共和党人要把每一美元都送到海外，但提供一些对以军事援助的想法是受欢迎且两党支持的。这并不意味着它是对的，如果仅仅为了“杀害巴勒斯坦人”而给一个外国更多钱，我也会反对。
However, I don’t think it’s fair to specifically emphasize foreign funding for Israel as like, the main reason Americans can’t afford groceries. We have a trillion-dollar deficit, and spend wildly on all categories of defense, Medicare, and Social Security.
当然，这是一种荒谬且病态地不公正的叙事框架。这笔钱是用于以色列的安全，以及支持美国在该地区打击恐怖分子的战斗行动——这些恐怖分子杀害以色列人，也想杀害美国人。《纽约时报》专栏作家David French称该广告卑鄙。他在X上写道：“极左翼仇恨以色列如此卑鄙的一点在于，他们多么迅速地就滑过了这样一个事实：以色列遭受了可怕的恐怖主义暴力。一个人不必同意以色列的所有政策（我当然不同意），也能知道这是一种怪诞的漫画式描绘。”
密歇根州民主党众议员Haley Stevens，Abdul El-Sayed在初选中击败的对手，在X上写道：“这种关于以色列的恐吓宣传是错误的。这不是任何州的制胜策略。在八天后的选举中，它无助于密歇根州民主党人在全票各层级获胜。”
That’s the problem. Maybe that’s why this ad, which was put out by Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC, really rubs me the wrong way. Take a look. First off, that $26 billion was appropriated by Congress two years ago.
我们是否需要通过建设更多住房、保障民众医疗保健、建立更公平的联邦税制来降低成本？是的，我们需要！！但实现这一目标的方式，绝不是把我们商品的高昂成本归咎于世界上唯一的犹太家园。我希望看到民主党在各个层面都取得成功，这意味着我们必须把重点放在为密歇根州家庭降低成本、遏制这位失控的总统身上。”我支持她。
President Biden signed off on it. The framing of this ad is that Republicans are going to send every last dollar overseas, but the idea of giving some military aid to Israel is popular and bipartisan.
话虽如此，也许我们确实应该减少在海外纠葛上的开支，尤其是在中东地区。但这则广告表面上是支持埃尔-赛义德——密歇根州的民主党参议员候选人——以及其他民主党人。这种观点认为，如果民主党重夺国会控制权，他们就会以某种方式管理联邦政府，让你的餐桌上有更多食物，有意义地降低鸡蛋或其他任何东西的价格，把更多税款还给你，这纯属幻想。
That doesn’t make it right, and I too would object to giving a foreign country more money solely for the purpose of “killing Palestinians.”
他们提出的是这个国家历史上最广泛、最昂贵的议程。他们承诺在医疗保健和教育上花费更多、更多的钱。而且他们实际上并不声称会有意义地削减国防开支：以色列获得的只是九牛一毛。说清楚了，指责共和党完全未能遏制开支也是完全公平的。除了像肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗这样少数倾向自由意志主义、坚持原则的异见者，共和党大多乐意配合大规模开支，而这确实导致通胀，最终损害你实际能保留的金钱数额。
That, of course, is a ridiculous and pathologically unfair framing. That money is for Israeli security and to support U.S. combat operations against terrorists in the region — terrorists who kill Israelis and want to kill Americans.
但至少有了共和党，我们能得到一个大体理智的经济政策，有助于持续的经济增长。一想到当拥有伯尼·桑德斯和伊丽莎白·沃伦监管优先事项的人控制国会时，民主党会做出什么，我就不寒而栗。这才是下周真正赌上的东西：持续的繁荣。所以别让极左翼用愤怒诱饵诱使你以为这关乎把每一颗鸡蛋都送给以色列。
罗比·索夫是《国会山报》评论节目《崛起》的联合主持人，也是《理性》杂志的资深编辑。本专栏为其每日评论的编辑版文字记录。
New York Times columnist David French called the ad vile. He writes on X: “One thing that's so despicable about far-left hatred of Israel is how quickly they just glide past the fact that Israel was subject to horrific terrorist violence. One does not have to agree with all Israeli policies (I certainly don't) to know that this is a grotesque caricature. And Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed’s vanquished primary opponent, wrote on X: “This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.” I’m with her. Now again, maybe we should spend less money on overseas entanglements, particularly in the Middle East. But this ad is ostensibly in support of El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate for Michigan, and other Democrats. This idea that if Democrats retake Congress, they are somehow going to run the federal government in a manner that puts more food on your table, that meaningfully lowers the prices of eggs, or anything else, that returns more of your tax dollars to you, is a fantasy. They are proposing the most expansive and expensive agenda in the history of this nation. They are promising to spend much, much more money on health care and education. And they’re actually not claiming that they will meaningfully cut defense spending: What Israel gets is a drop in the bucket. To be clear, it’s also totally fair to knock Republicans for failing to rein in spending at all. Except for a couple libertarian-leaning principled dissenters like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, most of the GOP is happy to go along with massive spending that does in fact cause inflation and ultimately hurts the effective amount of your money you get to keep. But at least with the GOP, we get a mostly sane economic policy that contributes to sustained economic growth. I shudder to think what Dems will do when people who share Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens’s regulatory priorities get control of Congress. That’s what is really at stake next week: continued prosperity. So don’t let the far left ragebait you into thinking this is about sending every last egg to Israel. Robby Soave is co-host of The Hill’s commentary show “Rising” and a senior editor for Reason Magazine. This column is an edited transcription of his daily commentary.