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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (152935)	11/29/2004 10:07:43 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

So you agree that without US aid, Israel would not have survived? Not in its present form anyway? No, I don't agree. The aid was helpful, especially in 1973, and saved many Israeli lives. But I haven't seen any serious analysis that thinks it saved Israel from destruction. Remember how bad Arabs are at waging modern warfare. You have to keep the aid in proportion. Israel has a European size economy of about 100 billion a year GDP. The aid it gets is helpful, but not crucial. The Palestinians are the ones who get something like half their GDP from aid. I've seen articles in the past that tried to add up the sources, it's a lot. From the Euros, from all the major NGOs who give the Pals something like 10 times more per head than they give to Eritreans or Somalis or people in real need, and of course UNWRA, which has 4 or 5 million "refugees" on its books, though heaven only knows what percentage of these exist only on paper. The usual estimate is that Arafat personally as head of the PA got 15 billion from 1993 - 2003, not counting UNWRA. Of course, the people never saw most of that.