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Dddooo: Oh but you do. You have brought up every single anti-israel lie, distortion and prejudice typically used by jew-haters and you have actually managed to invent several your own unique lies and distortions. If you prefer to be called anti-Israel rather than antisemite - it's fine with me.
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July 15, 2006
SouthAmerica: I have many friends who are Jewish and they know I am not a Jew- hater or antisemite as you put it.
I know you want to perpetuate a Jewish position as a victim, but I donât look at Israel in the same way as you do it.
I see Israel as a country full of very smart people who are able to defend themselves from attack from anybody. I donât see Israel as a victim that is being subjected to repression and worse.
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dddooo: now you're accusing Israel of being in the spotlight of the world attention...
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SouthAmerica: That is what I noticed over a period of more than 30 years â something happen around the world or the US the mainstream media covers what is happening then â but as soon as there is a chance the crisis regarding Israel always comes back over and over again â as if that was the most important problem around the world.
I know a lot of people who are not against Jews and Israel, but they are tired of that subject. Enough is enough.
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dddooo: It's actually the other way around, Israel receives its cash flow according to the peace agreement with Jordan and Egypt. Jordan and Egypt receive similar amount of aid.
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SouthAmerica: Here are some of the US financial aid that the US gives Israel on an annual basis.
Foreign aid to Israel from US sources alone, are the following amounts:
Year - amount
2005 - 2.58 Billion US dollars
2004 - 2.62 Billion US dollars
2001 - 2.82 Billion US dollars
and so onâ¦â¦â¦.
Here are the top 16 recipients of U.S. foreign aid for 2005:
1. Israel 2.58 Billion
2. Egypt 1.84 Billion
3. Afganistan 0.98 Billion
4. Pakistan 0.70 Billion
5. Colombia 0.57 Billion
6. Sudan 0.50 Billion
7. Jordan 0.48 Billion
8. Uganda 0.25 Billion
9. Kenya 0.24 Billion
10. Ethiopia 0.19 Billion
11. South Africa 0.19 Billion
12. Peru 0.19 Billion
13. Indonesia 0.18 Billion
14. Bolivia 0.18 Billion
15. Nigeria 0.18 Billion
16. Zambia 0.18 Billion
source:
CRS Report for Congress: Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S.
Programs and Policy Updated January 19, 2005, page 14
http://shelby.senate.gov/legislation/ForeignAid.pdf
Here are the top 16 recipients of U.S. foreign aid for 2004:
1. Iraq 18.44 Billion
2. Israel 2.62 Billion
3. Egypt 1.87 Billion
4. Afghanistan 1.77 Billion
5. Colombia 0.57 Billion
6. Jordan 0.56 Billion
7. Pakistan 0.39 Billion
8. Liberia 0.21 Billion
9. Peru 0.17 Billion
10. Ethiopia 0.16 Billion
11. Bolivia 0.15 Billion
12. Turkey 0.15 Billion
13. Uganda 0.14 Billion
14. Sudan 0.14 Billion
15. Indonesia 0.13 Billion
16. Kenya 0.13 Billion
source:
CRS Report for Congres:: Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S.
Programs and Policy, April 15, 2004, page 13
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/files/98-916.pdf
Here are the top 15 recipients of U.S. foreign aid for 2001:
1. Israel 2.82 Billion
2. Egypt 1.987 Billion
3. Jordan 0.227 Billion
4. Kosovo 0.184 Billion
5. Ukraine 0.178 Billion
6. Russia 0.174 Billion
7. Indonesia 0.149 Billion
8. Ethiopia 0.124 Billion
9. India 0.122 Billion
10. Georgia 0.107 Billion
11. Bangladesh 0.101 Billion
12. Serbia 0.10 Billion
13. Peru 0.097 Billion
14. Armenia 0.092 Billion
15. Bosnia 0.089 Billion
CRS Report for Congress: Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S.
Programs and Policy Updated April 6, 2001, page 12
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/crs/98-916_010406.pdf
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dddooo: It's less then 2 percent buddy, not 20 percent and the money is spent primarily on defence which Israel would not have to do in case of a peace agreement with Israel's neighbors.
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SouthAmerica: That was a typo. I was trying to say US Financial aid represented between 2 and 3 percent of Israelâs GDP. And in the long run â letâs say a period of 10 years â we are talking about over $ 30 billion US dollars. It is a lot of money that US taxpayers could be using for something else.
Israel received in financial aid $ 2.6 billion during 2005 when Israelâs GDP was estimated at $ 114.3 billion US dollars. The financial aid represented a nice chunk of the Israeli economy - I mean in terms of Israel and its small economy. ( Not in terms of the size of the US economy)
Israel - GDP (official exchange rate): $114.3 billion (2005 est.)
Source: CIA factbook
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dddooo: In the end of the 1940s jews and arabs lived in Palestine - like it or not but that was the actual situation on the ground and your suggestion that the UN should have created Israel but not Palestine in Sudan is preposterous, biased and stupid.
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SouthAmerica: First, the UN could have just reestablished the Palestinian state with a 90 percent Arab population and the 10 percent Jewish population. And no one would be asked to move out to any other place.
When Ottoman control came to an end, following World War I, the number of Jews in Palestine had declined to 55,000 out of a total population of Palestine of 500,000 people.
Second, when the British was considering the creation of a new Jewish state they were trying to accommodate the inflow of Jews from Europe who were survivals of the holocaust. And if they had created the new Jewish state in the Sudan as the British government were considering at that time the minority of Jews living in Palestine were not going to be evicted from their home in Palestine â they would continue being just a very small minority living inside Palestine.
If any of these Jews who were living in Palestine wanted to move to the Sudan to the newly created Jewish state that would be their personal decision and they would not be forced to relocate to the Sudan.
Nobody was talking about forced relocation of anyone to the Sudan.
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dddooo: the British did not create Israel, moron, the UN did.
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SouthAmerica: That was after the British gave up on their occupation of the Palestinian lands.
The Jews came close to get a home in Africa at the Sudan before the British gave up and passed the problem to the United Nations.
By the way, the United Nations it was founded in 1945 at the signing of the United Nations Charter by 51 countries, replacing The League of Nations which was founded in 1919. The UN was founded after the end of World War II by the victorious world powers with the hope that it would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible, by fostering an ideal of collective security.
You talk about of the United Nations as if the UN had been around for 100 years. But for your information in 1947 the UN was taking baby steps in the international arena since they had just formed that organization.
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dddooo: 9/11 had absolutely nothing to do with Israel, it had much more to do with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, with american troops in Saudia Arabia, with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Again your ignorance is staggering.
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SouthAmerica: I did not say that Israel was to blame for 9/11.
I said that if the new Jewish state had been created on a piece of the Sudan in Africa instead of where Israel is located today â a lot of problems would have been avoided in the Middle East.
The Israel/Arab conflict would not exist in the Middle East. The US would not have an adversary position against most Arab states (because of the Israel Palestinian problem.)
The geopolitical structure of the Middle East would have been very different â and subsequent events may not have happen. Saddam Hussein might still be in power in Iraq, Bin Ladden would not have been pissed at the US for having American troops in Saudi Arabia, and so onâ¦â¦
You call me ignorant when you are the one who canât grasp the difference of the different scenarios and the resulting outcomes.
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