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[Andromeda]

but it's far from being a done deal. No decision is going to be made right away---it might happen sometime in February, 2005---and the amount requested will probably be changed with continued negotiations. We already give large sums of money to Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt---among others too numerous to mention.

What you're saying is misleading because so far it's only in the discussion stage. It's probably safe to assume that Israel will get considerably less than what was asked for.

As far as Menendez goes, he didn't say that the aid to Israel WOULDN'T be endorsed. He says the decision about it would be delayed and that's all. It certainly isn't going to work out to $300,000 for each Israeli.

And by the way:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/620503.html

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