New democracy assistance funding will trade off with climate assistance—caps mean there will be no new spending

Lefton ’11(Rebecca, Researcher for Progressive Media at American Progress, 9/13/2011, "The Debt Deal and Budget Process Threaten Critical Climate Aid Funding", http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/09/climate_aid.html)

The debt ceiling legislation also created a super committee ... security items such as homeland security and defense.

International climate assistance is critical to stabilize carbon emissions

Lefton and Light ’11

(Rebecca, Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress, April 7, "The Fight Over International Climate Investments", http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/intl_climate_investments.html)

America still has strong relations with Israel but they are at a tipping point

Goldberg ’11 national correspondent for the Atlantic, April 25, 2011

(Jeffrey, Friends Forever?, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/friends_forever?page=0,1)

The West Bank has been occupied now for 44 years. It is increasingly difficult to argue that ... Israeli leaders believe it would be impossible for Israel to lose the affection of America. They are wrong.

Arab democratization can permanently weaken the US-Israeli relations

Pillar ’11 Center for Peace and Security Studies, Feb 8, 2011

(Paul, Why Israel Fears Arab Democracy, National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/blog/autocracy/why-israelis-fear-arab-democracy-4848)

As with many other Israeli fears, the theoretical worst case exceeds practical probabilities ... And that, at least potentially, will make it harder to defend this extraordinary relationship in its present form.

Stable relations are key to Middle East stability.

Kramer ‘6(Dr. Martin, fellow at The Washington Institute and senior fellow at the Olin Institute @ Harvard, “The American Interest,” Fall 2006, http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=980)

My answer, to anticipate my conclusion, is this: United States support for Israel ... The United States has to counter them, not in the interests of Israel, but to keep the world’s great reserves of oil out of the grip of the West’s sworn enemies.

These wars escalate globally – culminate in extinction.

Moore ‘9 (Carol, BA in Polisci @ Wane State, “Six Escalation Scenarios to Nuclear World War III, 16 February,http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/six-escalation-scenarios-to-nuclear-world-war-iii/)

Israel is especially dangerous because its leaders and supporters ... The U.N. cannot stop it.  U.S. imperialism and pre-emptive strikes cannot stop it.  Only a worldwide disarmament movement can stop it.

The Aff engages in doublethink by using rhetoric of terror which condones Otherzation and violence against those labeled

Kapitan 04

(Tomis Kapitan; 2004; Kapitan is a professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University; http://goo.gl/gr2un)

In his futuristic novel, 1984, George Orwell ... the very thing they condemn - and this is closer to doublethink than we should ever wish to be.

AND, this rhetoric turns case

Kapitan 02

(Erich Schulte, Tomis Kapitan; Summer 2002; Kapitan is a professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University; http://goo.gl/WnaJW)

Finally, in the course of developing and pursuing a rational response ... response to terrorism and, therefore, has no place in the civilized discourse of today. 

AND, this rhetoric justifies state terrorism and leads to dehumanization of those labeled

Kapitan 04

(Tomis Kapitan; 2004; Kapitan is a professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University; http://goo.gl/gr2un)

If we are to judge by the actual amount of damage, state terrorism is ... the distinction between national liberation movements and fringe fanatics.

AND, the alternative is to reject Aff for the terror rhetoric in their 1AC

Ivie 02

(Robert L. Ivie Professor and Department Chair Department of Communication and Culture Indiana University, Bloomington March 25, 2002 Profiling Terrorism First Presented as the Wayne N. Thompson Lecture at Western Illinois University, http://www.indiana.edu/~ivieweb/profiling.htm)

Profiling in one form or another is as inevitable as it is dangerous. We are language-using and ... Yet, that is exactly the posture President George W. Bush has taken with the overwhelming support, so far, of the American public, perhaps because our options seem so limited.

The Aff’s discourse of democratizing the Middle East presupposes that the Middle East is unchanging. This kind of thought is Orientalist in nature because it creates an “us/them” dichotomy

Ansari 11

(K. Humayun Ansari; June 10, 2011; Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13530194.2011.559003)

Bernard Lewis was the other ‘big gun’ in the ?eld of British scholarship on Islam ... European counterparts, wrote ‘detailed and empirically based’ accounts of Europe in the seventeenth century.

Viewing someone as the “Other” legitimizes domination over them, leading to complete dehumanization

Samiei 10

(Mohammad Samiei; Nov 20, 2010; senior lecturer at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2010.518749)

In this article dualism is used to denote a way of thinking that promotes ... they’ are essentially different, totally dismissing their commonalities with us as members of the human race.

Orientalist policy re-creates the problems they try to solve

Little 00 

(Donald P., Scholar at the Institute of Islamic Studies in Canada, “Orientalism: A Reader”, p 124, date accessed: 7/7/2010) AJK

Professor A. L.Tibawi,a distinguished educator and scholar on subjects Islamic and Arab ... change can be, and has been, effected and has no need of alien guidance.

The alternative is to reject the Aff because they are embedded in an Orientalist framework and adopt a critical stance to foreign policy

Bilgin 05

(Assistant Prof of International Relations at Bilkent University,  “REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE”, PAGE 58)

Emphasising the mutually interactive relationship between intellectuals ... the potential impact their research could make on the subject of research (Wyn Jones 1999:148-50).