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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (29428)	9/25/2001 10:21:30 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't think they're including total aid. We have a significant military budget expenditure there. I would expect that to show up on a different line item. If we help them with weapons, it allows them to spend more money elsewhere domestically (and that reduces the per capita "aid").

To: Constant Reader who wrote (29428)	9/25/2001 10:29:39 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

medea.be This source gives these figures, including military aid, up to 1998. Comparison figures are shown for Egypt, Jordan, and the PA: After 1990, the amount of US aid to Israel accounted to about 3,000 million US $ a year : 1,800 million as direct military assistance and 1,200 billion as civil assistance (which is mainly used to pay interest on past military loans). The United States also provided Israel with 80 million US $ a year in "refugee resettlement assistance" for Jews migrating to Israel. In 1996, Israel received another 50 million $ package for anti-terrorism equipment. For 1998, Israel will receive the same amount. By comparison, Egypt will receive 2,100 million $; Jordan 150 million $ (under an agreement with the United States, Israel and Egypt will return respectively 50 million $ to the newly created "Middle East Peace and Stability Fund". Jordan will benefit these other 100 million $ for its commitment to peace); the Palestinians 100 million $, mainly through NGO’s. In August 1997, the US Congress allowed the expiration of a law, the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act, which permitted direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority. It did so because the Clinton administration was unable to certify that the PA was complying with their agreements with Israel. American aid to Israel represents 7 to 8% of Israeli national budget. Israel is still the major beneficary of US foreign aid, recipient of nearly 25% of the total US foreign aid which, in 1998, amounts to 13,2 billion $.