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Thread #135264   Message #3085992
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
31-Jan-11 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Middle East Unrest
Subject: RE: BS: Middle East Unrest
U. S. military aid to Jordan, 2010, approx, $850 million in Congressional approvals.
In all, over $7 billion in 2010 to the Middle east.

Israel receives approx. $3 billion (but there are other payments- I can't winkle them out without a lot of work.

I will go one step farther than Steve Shaw (with whom I often disagree) on the Israel-'Palestine' situation. Israel has no intention of ever allowing the Palestinian people a free territory. They will keep to the program of a step here, a step back there, temporarily temporizing on this and that, but never coming to a recognition of a free Palestinian territory.

The 'leaks' of talking points show that Israel wishes to remove any Palestinian 'Arabs' from their country; the aim being a theocratic country.

Figures above from Congressional Research Service, "U. S. Foreign Assistance to the Middle east, .....", Jeremy M. Sharp.
Although from a completely U. S. government point of view, there is much interesting material in the article.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL32260.pdf