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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (190933)	7/4/2006 9:22:53 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

3 billion (My figures say 4) to Israel vs. 140 million to the Pals. Who's the bigger welfare queen? We actually PAY to support Israeli thugs, who use the military gear we provide to kill Pals. We might as well flush the money down the crapper - it would do less harm. But then, there's the crapper of Iraq, where we flush 9 billion a month. Iran and Israel seem to be the main beneficiaries of that waste.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (190933)	7/4/2006 11:30:37 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It's about 2 billion to Egypt and 3 to Israel - and that counts a lot of defense subsidies that go straight back to American defense contractors. The Pals get a good chunk of change, or did, about 140 million a year from the US, more than that from the Euros (I think it was somewhere between 500 million and 1 billion euros), and one musn't forget the huge sums they get via UNWRA and NGOs like the ICRC. The Americans and the EU pay most of the UN money. Altogether, the Pals are the world's highest per-capita recipients of foreign aid. All of which could be save by moving every Israeli to the USA, where they would be welcome members of America's melting pot, instead of continuing to maintain them in a region where the majority of the surrounding local population hates and resents them, and wants to kill them. What's your plan to promote peace in between Israelis and Palestinians? The efforts of the past 60 years have obviously failed, what's your proposal?