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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16084)	8/16/2007 12:10:32 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Those angry-White Church-goers are being duped more than the average guy )or gal) on the street. In the meantime, 9-11 is good business for the "civilian control business" on our way to being bankrupted by the obsession with the "war on terror". NYC Gets More Anti-Terror Aid forbes.com 08.15.07 WASHINGTON - New York and northern New Jersey will get more than $50 million in the latest round of federal anti-terror grants to protect mass transit systems and ports, officials said Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security is expected to make the announcement on Thursday. Secretary Michael Chertoff indicated last month that New York should expect more money, and pledged 2007 would be the city's best year ever for federal anti-terror aid. The New York and New Jersey metropolitan area will share about $37 million in transit security money, and slightly less than $15 million in port funds. It was unclear Wednesday exactly how the funds would be split between the two states. By DHS figures, the new money would mean the New York area will receive more than $300 million in total from various federal anti-terrorism programs. The highest previous tally was in 2005, when the city got $261 million. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said the new figures "are very, very positive and a major step in the right direction." The new round of grants comes from a pool of more than $200 million in federal funding for mass transit and port security. Elected officials in New York have long complained that their share of national anti-terror funding from Washington falls short of the relative risk the city faces of terror attacks. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has argued that too much of the funding is distributed like political pork to rural areas, and Congress voted this summer to send a larger share to major cities.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16084)	8/16/2007 12:12:15 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 22250

Another example of impending bankruptcy.. U.S., Israel sign $30 billion aid deal origin.mercurynews.com By ARON HELLER 08/16/2007 01:56:06 AM PDT JERUSALEM—The United States offered Israel on Thursday an unprecedented $30 billion military aid package, bolstering its closest Mideast ally. The aid deal represents a 25 percent rise in U.S. military aid to Israel, from a current $2.4 billion each year to $3 billion a year over 10 years. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, and Israeli Foreign Minister Director-General Aharon Abramovitz signed the memorandum of understanding on the assistance at a ceremony in Jerusalem. The package was meant in part to offset U.S. plans to offer Saudi Arabia advanced weapons and air systems that would greatly improve the Arab country's air force. Israel has said it has no opposition to the U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia. Burns said regional threats to Israel—Iran and the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups—also threaten the United States. "We look at this region and we see that a secure and strong Israel is in the interest of the United States," Burns said. The chief of Israel's central bank, Stanley Fischer, said the U.S. aid is of "critical importance" to Israel, whose defense budget constitutes about 10 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. The aid package to Israel was finalized in June in Washington between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert has said the increase in military aid to Israel would guarantee its strategic superiority, despite upgrades to Arab countries in the region.