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To: neolib who wrote (228750)	4/26/2007 3:41:15 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Every article I found said 1.2B = $300/person, so they are not claiming 2-3 million people as you are. If they are not, then they are somehow claiming that the PA's money is being spread over all the Palestinians of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, whose (highly suspect) numbers are usually given at 4 or 5 millions. But that is not accurate; the PA does not rule these people. Further, Israel does not have to account to the USA for how they spend it. That is not true at all; Israel has no choice in how they spend most of it; it goes back to the contractors for arms sales by pre-arrangement. Like I said, that's why support for this aid is iron-clad in Congress. And this does not mention a $500B war that will tab out easily at $1T plus of which Israel is the biggest benefactor (or at least they were supposed to be, the end result might not work out that way). If Israel had actually had the power to order a war, they would have chosen Iran as the target. They are much more worried about Iran than any Arab state. It's bigger, crazier, has a more professional miliary, and it's about to get nukes. The US chose Iraq for its own ends. They were tired of keeping up the failing sanctions regime and were soon going to face an ignominious climbdown and a triumphant Saddam.