From: olcharlie
To: larry lewis
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: numbers
This is money that i believe should be spent on our own nation needs and
which are getting more urgent every year.
Isreal uses this money to buy lobbyist who then work the U.S. congress
people which WE elect to get the terms of the loans described here and which
no other country in the world is receiving.
In my opinon Isreal is the basic sources of our conflict in the middle east.
And my opinon is formed from reading substancuated atricles confirming this.
So we as a nation are going bankrupt funding Isreals Zionist war.
And their are those dieing and mained for the same Isreal expaninist cause.
But please read what Charlie has sent below and deciede for yourself.
If you agree then please send this msg to friends as this disaster we are
financing has to stop.
And as congress people will admit ...off the record, they can not speak out
or that is the end of the careers and this also holds true for most
academics.
In response to the statement that the ongoing intifada is an economic burden
on the the Israeli people who would like peace.
http://www.washington-report.org/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm
(no date given)
Since 1992, the U.S. has offered Israel an additional $2 billion annually in
loan guarantees. Congressional researchers have disclosed that between 1974
and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants and
that this was the understanding from the beginning. Indeed, all past U.S.
loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has
undoubtedly helped Israel's often-touted claim that they have never
defaulted on a U.S. government loan. U.S. policy since 1984 has been that
economic assistance to Israel must equal or exceed Israel's annual debt
repayment to the United States. Unlike other countries, which receive aid in
quarterly installments, aid to Israel since 1982 has been given in a lump
sum at the beginning of the fiscal year, leaving the U.S. government to
borrow from future revenues. Israel even lends some of this money back
through U.S. treasury bills and collects the additional interest.
In addition, there is the more than $1.5 billion in private U.S. funds that
go to Israel annually in the form of $1 billion in private tax-deductible
donations and $500 million in Israeli bonds. The ability of Americans to
make what amounts to tax-deductible contributions to a foreign government,
made possible through a number of Jewish charities, does not exist with any
other country. Nor do these figures include short- and long-term commercial
loans from U.S. banks, which have been as high as $1 billion annually in
recent years.
Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American
foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the
world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita
incomes. Indeed, Israel's GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of
about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the
world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia
and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html
December 09, 2002
Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If
divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person.
This is an estimate by Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist in
Washington. For decades, his analyses of the Middle East scene have made him
a frequent thorn in the side of the Israel lobby.
For the first time in many years, Mr. Stauffer has tallied the total cost to
the US of its backing of Israel in its drawn-out, violent dispute with the
Palestinians. So far, he figures, the bill adds up to more than twice the
cost of the Vietnam War.
And now Israel wants more. In a meeting at the White House late last month,
Israeli officials made a pitch for $4 billion in additional military aid to
defray the rising costs of dealing with the intifada and suicide bombings.
They also asked for more than $8 billion in loan guarantees to help the
country's recession-bound economy.
http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=12092&t=1&c=34&cg=
31 July 2007
EGYPT. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert
Gates arrived in Egypt on Tuesday with promises of weapons for allies in the
Middle East, saying it would help counter Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria and
Iran.
olcharlie@netptc.net
will nap for food
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