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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (3218)	4/10/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Most people would consider $100 billion in outright welfare and many, many more billions in secret military gifts, very significant aid>> Is that any different than the billions of dollars in aid we gave to Pakistan? Or dozens of other nations around the world? Please. <<Israel has been armed with advanced nation military capabilities and the Arabs with Third Word capabilities. America has provided Israel with the most sophisticated military hardware in the world and trained them how to use it at the expense of the American taxpayers.>> Oh? What about the billions of dollars in military equipment we sold to the Shah of Iran? Or Kuwait? Or Saudi Arabia? Jordan? How about muslim Turkey? Pakistan? Or dont they count? <<The Arabs have always fought with inferior and outdated military equipment and always under the dark cloud of nuclear blackmail from Israel and the intimadating American willingness to intervine if Israel stumbled.>> Well certainly the US cant be blamed for Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon buying their goods from the Soviets. Perhaps you should blame the Russians for conspiring with Israel to sell the Arabs junk? And I challenge you to point out a single instance in any of the Arab/Israeli conflicts where the US threatened to intervene. You forget that America was not always so close with Israel. For most of its existence its main defender was... Britain. But I suppose the UK is a puppet state?