Direct and indirect US aid to Israel

let us not forget: the ruling elite, the weapons merchants, the wallstreet bankers and the zionists are many of the very same; and let us add in to our support for ISrahell the trillions their wars are costing all of us... a good few refereneces: a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=831 United_States_relations#United_States_military_and_economic_aid http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/usaid.html Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year (not counting govt transfers - which take it to $30 billion), which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain." The Cost of Israel to US Taxpayers [Richard H. Curtiss enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War II, and served as a military correspondent in Berlin, Germany after the war. After earning a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California and working on newspapers and for the United Press, he served as a career Foreign Service officer with the Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency throughout the world and in Washington D.C. During his U.S. government career he received the U.S. Information Agency's Superior Honor Award and the Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in Public Diplomacy, U.S.I.A.'s highest professional recognition. Curtiss is currently the Executive Editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. By Richard H. Curtiss Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cost_of_israel.html For many years the American media said that "Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid" or that "Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid." Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies. Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that "Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid." That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000. One can truthfully blame the mainstream media for never digging out these figures for themselves, because none ever have. They were compiled by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. But the mainstream media certainly are not alone. Although Congress authorizes America's foreign aid total, the fact that more than a third of it goes to a country smaller in both area and population than Hong Kong probably never has been mentioned on the floor of the Senate or House. Yet it's been going on for more than a generation. Probably the only members of Congress who even suspect the full total of U.S. funds received by Israel each year are the privileged few committee members who actually mark it up. And almost all members of the concerned committees are Jewish, have taken huge campaign donations orchestrated by Israel's Washington, DC lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or both. These congressional committee members are paid to act, not talk. So they do and they don't.

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