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Re: Babies who threaten to topple Israel?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:43:43 GMT
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Snipped everything I agreed with, leaving one little bitty bit...
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> One reason is that the US provides massive funding and military support for
> Israel
yes... way too much. Asserted to be more than all the rest of the direct foreign
aid budget combined but I don't have a cite that I trust handy...
> but not for
Um, how many B USD a year do we give Egypt? One number I saw bandied about was
45B since we started... (again, no trustworthy cite handy)
How much do we spend to prop up the Saudi government by defending them?
How much do we give the Palestinian Authority?
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
I'm not sure I agree with "but not for" in the above snippet. I'd go with "and,
to a lesser extent, many"
> other Middle Eastern nations.
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| (...) Doh! Good call. Time for me to fall back on good ol' fashioned Eurocentrism, in which Egypt is gathered under the umbrella of "quasi-European" nations rather than African or Middle Eastern states. Um, yeah. That'll be convincing. (...) Prop (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) One reason is that the US provides massive funding and military support for Israel but not for other Middle Eastern nations. Additionally, Israel is after all, the only nation in the region confirmed to possess nuclear weapons, but the US (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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