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To: GST who wrote (237094)	7/19/2007 2:25:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

<the US is not obliged to pay welfare to Hamas> Nor to Israel. For once I agree. Nor to Israel. Except Israel hasn't broken its previous agreements with the US, and a number of influential US arms-makers would be much poorer if the US stopped aid, so the aid will continue. Israel could do quite well without it; Israel has a $100 billion GDP, a Euro-sized economy. The Pals, on the other hand, are welfare queens, with little economy except for foreign aid. The last time their economy did well was from 1967 to 1994 when it grew 10% a year; but Arafat soon tanked it, and that was before the Second Intifada really closed off Israelis jobs to Palestinians. Now the Israelis hire Thais and Rumanians and the Pals live off welfare. By all means, lets cut out ALL the foreign aid to both sides.