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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 03:58 PM
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Funding the Israeli Military The U.S. Pipeline From Industry to Congress
By SETH SANDRONSKY

Millions of Americans face home foreclosures, health care, job and pension losses. However, none of these crises currently threatens to alter the flow of their tax dollars to Israel’s government. It takes these greenbacks and buys F-16 jets made by Lockheed Martin to drop bombs on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.This aggression is an effect of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

Read more ... http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/01/funding-israeli-military.html
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 04:04 PM
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1. This one sentence is all you need to know about US funding of Israel:
U.S. aid to Israel (pop. 4.8 million) from 1949 to 1997 totaled over $134 billion. The total US foreign aid to Israel for the same period exceeded the total aid to all of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined (pop. 486 million).

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/24-us-aid-to-israel-fuels-repressive-occupation-in-palestine/">U.S. Aid to Israel Fuels Repressive Occupation In Palestine.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 04:05 PM
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2. Definitely. Let the Israelis be overrun by the larger, richer, more populated Arab nations.
What a good idea. Any other brilliant notions where that one came from?
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ROakes1019 Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 04:33 PM
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3. larger, richer Arabs?
The Palestinians belong to a larger, richer Arab nation? Are you crazy, or just a Zionist?
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