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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 21:32:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Snipped everything I agreed with, leaving one little bitty bit...
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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> > One reason is that the US provides massive funding and military support for
> > Israel
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> 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...
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> > but not for
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> 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)
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.
> How much do we spend to prop up the Saudi government by defending them?
Prop up? Haven't you heard that the Saudis are valuable allies in furthering
our goal of the democatization of the Middle East?
> How much do we give the Palestinian Authority?
Seriously, I hadn't considered that part, but I thought that the amount was a
relative pittance compared to what Israel receives. Either way it's even dumber
to fund both sides of a conflict than to fund only one!
Dave!
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| (...) Indeed! Note: For every dollar that Washington spent on an African, it spent $250+ on an Israeli! (...) You both appear to be missing something. Read (URL) this>: "There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all of (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Snipped everything I agreed with, leaving one little bitty bit... (...) 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... (...) Um, how many B USD a (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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