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israels military being humilated
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A BREAKDOWN OF UNITED STATES AID TO ISRAEL
Financial Aid
The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries4, even though Israelâs population comprises just .001% of the worldâs population and has one the worldâs higher per capita incomes.
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Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 â making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
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The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
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Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
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Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven â leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan â with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
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In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.
Military Aid
The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel â totalling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is 1,054,000,000.
According to a US Department of Defence Joint Report to Congress in March 2001, âIt is in the United Statesâ national interest to promote the existence of a stable, democratic and militarily strong Israel, at peace with its neighbours [â¦]â.7 According to a US State Department statement in November 2002, the US government is committed to âmaintaining and enhancing Israelâs security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversariesâ and âthe important advantages the US-Israeli strategic relationship has and will continue to provide us.â8
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Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is grants to foreign governments financing the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Israel receives 50% of the FMF budget request. The large sums paid by the US to Egypt and Jordan are in recognition of the two countries signing peace accords with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively.
Financial Aid
The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries4, even though Israelâs population comprises just .001% of the worldâs population and has one the worldâs higher per capita incomes.
*
Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 â making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
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The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
*
Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
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Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven â leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan â with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
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In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.
Military Aid
The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel â totalling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is 1,054,000,000.
According to a US Department of Defence Joint Report to Congress in March 2001, âIt is in the United Statesâ national interest to promote the existence of a stable, democratic and militarily strong Israel, at peace with its neighbours [â¦]â.7 According to a US State Department statement in November 2002, the US government is committed to âmaintaining and enhancing Israelâs security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversariesâ and âthe important advantages the US-Israeli strategic relationship has and will continue to provide us.â8
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Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is grants to foreign governments financing the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Israel receives 50% of the FMF budget request. The large sums paid by the US to Egypt and Jordan are in recognition of the two countries signing peace accords with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively.
Quote from dddooo:
PS Israel is not funded by the US.
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
A BREAKDOWN OF UNITED STATES AID TO ISRAEL
Financial Aid
The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries4, even though Israelâs population comprises just .001% of the worldâs population and has one the worldâs higher per capita incomes.
*
Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 â making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).5
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The total cost of this financial aid to US tax payers per Israeli is $23,240.
*
Since 1992, the US has offered Israel an additional $2 billion in loan guarantees every year.6
*
Nearly all past loans to Israel have been forgiven â leading Israel to claim that they have never defaulted on repayment of a US loan â with most loans made on the understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them.
*
In 1997 alone, the total of US grants and loan guarantees to Israel was $5.5 billion, i.e., $15,068,493 per day.
Military Aid
The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel â totalling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is 1,054,000,000.
According to a US Department of Defence Joint Report to Congress in March 2001, âIt is in the United Statesâ national interest to promote the existence of a stable, democratic and militarily strong Israel, at peace with its neighbours [â¦]â.7 According to a US State Department statement in November 2002, the US government is committed to âmaintaining and enhancing Israelâs security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversariesâ and âthe important advantages the US-Israeli strategic relationship has and will continue to provide us.â8
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Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is grants to foreign governments financing the purchase of American-made weapons, services and training. Israel receives 50% of the FMF budget request. The large sums paid by the US to Egypt and Jordan are in recognition of the two countries signing peace accords with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively.
Israel's GDP $130 billion
The US financial aid to Israel in 2006 - $2.5 billion
The US financial aid to Egypt and Jordan - about $2.5 billion
The aid sure helps but claiming that Israel is funded by the US is absurd.
PS Are you trying to hijack this thread?
Israel is funded by the USA. I didn't say fully.
So, clearly they are funded by your own admission...
The US aid is funding...
Doh!
So, clearly they are funded by your own admission...
The US aid is funding...
Doh!
Quote from dddooo:
Israel's GDP $130 billion
The US financial aid to Israel in 2006 - $2.5 billion
The US financial aid to Egypt and Jordan - about $2.5 billion
The aid sure helps but claiming that Israel is funded by the US is absurd.
PS Are you trying to hijack this thread?
The US provides financial aid to a hundred countries, based on your criteria one can say that all those countries are funded by the USA which is clearly absurd. The UN, the US and europeans give money to palestinians, are you willing to say that Hamas is funded by the entire international community? More importantly:Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Israel is funded by the USA. I didn't say fully.
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
No, the military has not been humilited
To specifically target Hezbollaâs position, Israel has to kill civilians because Hezbolla members ARE civilians. And that is exactly what Israel is doing. Try to convince me why the person firing the missile is a Hezbolla member while the person standing beside him is not. Try to convince me itâs Israelâs responsibility for Hezbolla deliberately placing their own women and children in harms way. True, there are plenty of Lebanese that despise Hezbolla, but they are not the ones placing themselves in harms way.
Attempts to Isolate Hezbolla from a country that welcomes its presence is pathetic at best. Try to argue against the Afghanistan invasion when it hosted bin Laden.
BTW: How can the IDF be humiliated this time around when they see Hezbolla getting its ass kicked and losing ground in the PR war?
Attempts to Isolate Hezbolla from a country that welcomes its presence is pathetic at best. Try to argue against the Afghanistan invasion when it hosted bin Laden.
BTW: How can the IDF be humiliated this time around when they see Hezbolla getting its ass kicked and losing ground in the PR war?
Quote from Bitstream:
no it aint since u are solicitin' an act of provocation on part of lebanon to cause more death and destruction...and since u talk about humiliation: isreal has been humiliated for not been able to target specifically hezbolla's position but only takin' out innocent lives. get real, your country cannot deal with hezbollah and it's takin' out its frustration on the lebanese people.
us powermakers, bankers, influence, are jews. they have israels best interests at heart. they also want to hijack iran which imho, is what this whole mess is really about anyway. notice how the us and france keep steering the roots of this problem back to syria and iran. iran is indirectly fighting this war through hezbollah. iran started hezbollah. this whole thing goes back to oil - which the US needs to keep denominated in US dollars. My two cents...