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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7628)	10/26/2001 9:05:20 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) of 281500

BTW, loved the Friedman piece, especially this part - "Israel is with us provided we never question the lunacy of 7,000 Israeli colonial settlers living in the middle of a million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip." nytimes.com We really, really, really need to consider whether we should keep sending Israel $3 billion a year. Has anyone sat down with a calculator to see what we spend every year so we can keep getting oil from the Middle East? Let's see. The US consumes 17 billion gallons of gasoline a year. We import 50% of our oil, so that's 7 1/2 billion. We give Israel $3 billion. We give Egypt $2 billion. us-israel.org I have no idea what our own defense costs are in the Middle East, but we've got troops in Kuwait, and we maintain the no-fly zones over Iraq. What are we really paying for "cheap gas"?

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