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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25430)	4/15/2002 10:32:25 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "GST, talk about nonsense... You have an affinity for citing the amount of money the US pays Israel [vs Palestine Authority] every year, but you seem unwilling to cite the amount of money we pay the Egyptians ($2 Billion per annum)." Egypt isn't a party to the conflict, at least not any more. Re: "Nor do you cite the reason the US pays Israel and Egypt such large sums of money.. The US does so solely to buy peace between them." Well, maybe the US sends the money to Egypt for that reason, but the US was supporting Israel long before they signed a peace with Egypt. In any case, paying people not to fight has got to be the stupidest foreign policy decision ever made that didn't involve violence. Re: "Take the money away and the US loses its sole leverage over Israel foreign and military policy." Since we don't appear to have any leverage over Israel's military policy, I don't think that this is much of an argument. -- Carl

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