Whats the difference?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced legislation aimed at pressuring Egypt to improve its human rights record by withholding some military aid until progress is made.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a wide-ranging foreign aid bill for next year that would hold back $200 million in military funds for Egypt until the close U.S. ally takes steps to curb police abuses, reform its judicial system and stop weapons smuggling from Egypt to Gaza.

For more on this funding cut check out The Arabist.

This makes total sense, lets cut funding to Egypt for having poor human rights records from a government we installed and support through said human rights violations. It must be a pretty bad fall from the high horse when we decide that now after years and years we no longer approve.

The Question also begs, why are we cutting funding to Egypt and not Israel? As has been highlighted by numerous sources Israel has receieved dozens of UN sanctions(that arent enforced) for human rights violations on all levels. However this doesnt bother us or interupt their funding. As of this posting, Israel still receives more direct and indirect US funding than all other nations on earth combined. This willy nilly enforcement idea of who we should take money away from for bad human rights records simply highlights the fact that we work for Israel. It is not the other way around, we are the tool that keeps them afloat in the sea of hatred and resentment they have built. They are the tool that increases the hatred for us because of our horrendous foreign policy in the middle eastern region. I say if we take money from Egypt, we should strip all funding to Israel. It only makes sense seeing as they are a very advanced state with the 4th largest military on earth(from a "country" of 6 million people), of all the places in need of US aid, they are the last.