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Should the U.S. End Aid to Israel?

 
 
Zippo
 
Reply Sat 19 Apr, 2008 04:06 pm
During periods of recession, when Americans are thrown out of work, homes are repossessed, school budgets cut and businesses fail, Congress continues to give Israel massive amounts of our tax money; currently, about 7 million dollars per day.

On top of this, Egypt and Jordan receive large sums of money (per capita about 1/20th of what Israel receives) to buy their cooperation with Israel; and Palestinians also receive our tax money (about 1/23rd of that to Israel), to repair infrastructure that Israeli forces have destroyed, to fund humanitarian projects required due to the destruction wrought by Israel's military, and to convince Palestinian officials to take actions beneficial to Israel. These sums should also be included in expenditures on behalf of Israel.

( http://www.counterpunch.org/weir04042008.html )
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Ramafuchs
 
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Reply Sat 19 Apr, 2008 04:46 pm
Israel doe not need any aid from USA.
Nor USA needs the brain of Israel.
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Foofie
 
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Reply Sun 20 Apr, 2008 01:25 pm
When a statement uses statistics incorrectly, I discount the statement as incorrect. So, when I read the above, "On top of this, Egypt and Jordan receive large sums of money (per capita about 1/20th of what Israel receives) to buy their cooperation with Israel," I know that the population of both Egypt and Jordan are many multiples of Israel's population, and therefore a "per capita" statistic is incorrectly (perhaps unknowingly) comparing a "per capita" statistic to a total aid statistic. We have to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, not apples to oranges. Many an Arab would know this (Arabs having contributed so much to the science of mathematics in past times).
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