Israel: US Foreign Assistance, Congressional Research Service, April 26, 2005:
"Israel is not economically self-sufficient, and relies on foreign assistance and borrowing to maintain its economy. Since 1985, the United States has provided $3 billion in grants annually to Israel. Since 1976, Israel has been the largest annual recipient of US foreign assistance, and is the largest cumulative recipient since World War II. In addition to US assistance, it is estimated that Israel receives about $1 billion annually through philanthropy, an equal amount through and short and long term commercial loans, and around $1 billion in Israel Bonds proceeds."
The sooner more American people are made aware of this insane "investment", the geography of the Middle East may undergo a radical realignment.
"Israel is not economically self-sufficient, and relies on foreign assistance and borrowing to maintain its economy. Since 1985, the United States has provided $3 billion in grants annually to Israel. Since 1976, Israel has been the largest annual recipient of US foreign assistance, and is the largest cumulative recipient since World War II. In addition to US assistance, it is estimated that Israel receives about $1 billion annually through philanthropy, an equal amount through and short and long term commercial loans, and around $1 billion in Israel Bonds proceeds."
The sooner more American people are made aware of this insane "investment", the geography of the Middle East may undergo a radical realignment.
6 Comments:
The actions of the palestinian leadership, along with the Palestinian peoples support of the most heinous war crimes such as suicide bombing, makes the explanaition of spending Billions to protect the citizens of the only democracy in the middle east a cake walk.
Are you suggesting that Israel destroy Jordan, Syria, and Egypt to radically realign the Middle east so that America won't have to continue to assist Israel?
Sounds like you are war mongering now.
Now that you reduced it to simple transactions, there is no reason for anyone here to complain.
Both partners benefit. That is what is known as a good deal. The Arabs should learn all about this.
It goes without saying that the Jewish lobby strongly (and rightly) influences the US Government, and hence foreign policy and aid to Israel .
The fact that the US listens to its Jewish citizens is a mark of of democracy.
Like bombing Serbian killers in Kosovo the US (rarely but sometimes) attempts to do good works. Protecting Israel (post Holocaust) is a case in point.
Knowledge that Israel has 200+ nuclear weapons is rarely mentioned but a key fact concern in support for Israel.
The US knows that if it sharply dropped its monetary, and by extension political, support for Israel that Israel might get lonely and paranoid.
The emergence of Muslim nuclear weapons (already in Pakistan) justifiably feeds this paranoia.
The spectre of a regional nuclear war between Israel and Muslim states (eg Pakistan, Iran) no doubt causes nightmares for strategic planners in the CIA and Pentagon. So its a whole lot cheaper and politically popular to keep the money flowing and keep Israel feeling secure.
I agree with this US approach on moral, democratic and avoiding Armageddon grounds.
In any case private money going as loans, floats, international joint ventures, and other financial mechanisms by American Jews to Israelis may well be much higher than US government aid - got any figures?
But the US attends AA meetings and the vast majority of the rest of the world is merrily drinking as if they didn't have a problem,
wandering about, drunk as lords.
"its a heavily subsidise religious disneyland in a goat effed desert"
i first posted that in a thread over at Tim Blair, but it got censored, of course, a couple of years ago.
vacuus leadership… european nationalist romantic ideology… and an obese sugar daddy.
we're all doomed
You saw that movie, too? Top knotch.
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