House gives Israel 2.46 billion

[donsu]

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3260989,00.html


US approves annual aid to Israel

House of Representatives approves allocation of USD 21.3 billion in foreign assistance during 2007, including USD 2.46 billion to Israel, the largest sum received by any country; House rejected proposal to cut aid to Egypt by USD 100 million following arrest of opposition leaders

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Apart from the annual aid package, the House approved the transfer of an additional USD 40 million to Israel aimed at assisting the country in the absorption of new immigrants from eastern Europe, Ethiopia and former Soviet Union countries.
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shock! people are still immigrating to Israel.

billions to Israel and Miami layed off 400 welfare workers cause they were out of money

[Behind the Aegis]

1. And?

"billions to Israel and Miami layed off 400 welfare workers cause they were out of money"

What about the billions spent on foreign aid all together?

[Deja Q]

2. $9 tril in debt, American taxpyers in dire need, and they still do this?

What will we be getting from Israel in return? Certainly not hookers, that's illegal.

[High Plains]

3. Can't the Israelis kill Palestinians on their own dime?

[donsu]

4. kick

nt

[Jim Sagle]

5. Yesssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:beer:

[donsu]

6. what are you yessing?

nt

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. It's a drinking game!

Every time we give take a shot! ...or something like that. :shrug:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

7. I still don't understand wha Israel does for us to deserve so much aid

Oh, they don't have to do anything. AIPAC.

Never mind.

[casual hex]

8. They need the money

to fund their spy operations in the USA, and to pay their agents in the Pentagon. These things can cost quite a lot of money you know.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

9. Yeah, paying your moles in the US government can be expensive

Thanks for the reminder.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. And those taxes they're holding from the Palestinians sure

isn't covering much either. :sarcasm:

[Jacobin]

13. The Likkud lobby

spreads money generously around to the congresscritters.

Not much different from giant tax giveaways to Exxon/Mobile, etc, except that the Likkudnicks have too much influence on our foreign policy and that gets waaaay more expensive in terms of lost treasure and lost lives.

I wonder if we'll ever learn.. :shrug:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

16. It's almost as if we give Israel money

To buy more hatred from the Arabs.

[Zhade]

18. We pay Israel and Egypt not to fight.

Of course, it's been decades now, and the money in Israel goes to anti-democratic things like murder of innocent Palestinians...

Not sure what it goes for in Egypt, but I'll bet it's equally unsavory.

[xxqqqzme]

10. '...absorption of new immigrants

from eastern Europe, Ethiopia and former Soviet Union countries...'

code for new illegal settlements.

They need the money 2 keep construction of the apartheid wall going. Our tax dollars 2 Israel go w/ no strings attached - the ONLY country that gets aid from US that way. The money goes in2 their general fund 2 be used as they see fit - right now it is building the wall.


NOT IN MY NAME!

[alvarezadams]

19. No strings attached?

Supposedly if Israel develops nukes we're not allowed to give them cash. And as far as I know, this law was never repealed.

Right hand meet left... now fvck yourselves.

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Don't get me wrong. I am not anti-SEMITIC, I am anti-ZIONIST - as are a large number of Jews. Israel's right to exist is similar to a putative claim by the indians regarding Manhattan (as if they'd want it back). Yet I accept the fait accompli and Israel exists - it is a polity, a nation - and has a right to exist.

But it DOESN'T have the right to crap on the Palestinians, international law and common sense.

I've spent some time in Israel. I like the country, I like the people, I like the food, Tel Aviv's nightlife is OK. But driving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem shows a picture of Aparthied that no amount of propaganda can erase, you just have to see the separate roads with their roadblocks, the difference between the 1st and 3rd worlds by just crossing a line WITHIN THE SAME COUNTRY. And most of those who go through the roadblocks are Israeli citizens - just not Jews.

The roadmap...:rofl: ... the ROADMAP ...:hide: ... THE ROADMAP :puke:

Wake up uhmurca

[Benhurst]

14. This pathetic dump of a country shouldn't be giving money to

anybody.

"The World's Only Superpower." Yeah. Sure.

[Poll_Blind]

15. Why do we give Israel this much money?

It makes no sense.

PB

[rachamim18]

17. something for nothing?

Israel is the largest recipient of US largesse because it earns it. functioning as the American proxy in the fractious Middle East has been no easy task. Of course now that the Cold War is dead and buried, that bottomless pocket is quuickly shrinking. As we see with next years package, AID is finished. Military AID is kicked up a notch but only as a payoff for the Gazan "Disengagement/Withdrawal" and a positive reinforcement for the proposed "West Bank" pullout. The military package is set to be phased out as well over the coming decade.