US aid for Israel $2.46 billion in 2007

[Tom Joad]

Comment: Just had its 57th birthday and still getting an allowance.
You will be hard pressed to find the simple information like this below, that Israel was granted more aid. Or that it has recieved $25 billion since 1988.

Do notice that funds to fight the AIDS pandemic was set at $3.4 billion, for all of Africa and beyond. Too bad they don't have AIPAC.

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000096392&fid=1725
US aid for Israel $2.46 billion in 2007
The foreign aid bill includes $2.34 billion military aid for Israel and $120 million civilian aid. Civilian aid will end in 2009.
Ran Dagoni, Washington 28 May 06 12:43
On Friday, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee approved the 2007 house foreign aid bill, which includes $2.46 billion for Israel. $2.34 billion of this amount will be military aid, and $120 million will be civilian aid.

US aid for Israel is calculated according to a formula set in the late 1990s by then-Minister of Finance Yaakov Neeman and then Israel Economic Minister to Washington Ohad Marani to gradually eliminate US civilian aid to Israel, and which was adopted by the US administration. The feeling in Israel at the time was Congress would not support civilian aid for long to a country with a developed economy like Israel’s.

Under the formula, US civilian aid for Israel is cut by $120 million a year, until it’s elimination in the 2009 US fiscal year. At the same time, US military aid for Israel would increase by $60 million a year to a ceiling of $2.4 billion a year, beginning in 2009. Israel will receive its last $60 million of US civilian aid in the 2008 US fiscal year.

[DELUSIONAL]

1. How much health care for US citizen would $2.46 billion buy??

[Phx_Dem]

6. about $8.23

2,460,000,000/298,854,468

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

[GrumpyGreg]

2. And Egypt gets $1.3 billion-----they've been around a lot longer than

57 years.

[Erika]

3. Our tax $ redistributed to the corporatist military industrialists

and, yes, our standard of living continues to decrease. Insurance and health care is now well on its way to becoming a luxury that fewer and fewer Americans can afford.

[physioex]

4. How long can this be sustained?

This country has too many problems to go around writing welfare checks...

[eyl]

7. Most of the money ends up back in the US

The majority of the aid can only be spent on purchases from American companies; most of the rest can only be used for joint projects, so the US benefits from the developed technology.

[Spinoza]

5. How much aid went to Egypt and Jordan?

I bet you that combined its very close or about the same as went to Israel. I guess you just forgot to point out that the U.S. gives substantial foreign aid to other countries in the ME besides Israel. By the way, I think all U.S. aid to Israel, Jordan and Egypt should end at once.

snip> "Aid is central to Washington's relationship with Cairo. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975." <snip
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0412/p07s01-wome.html


snip>"U.S. assistance to Jordan has increased significantly since the Gulf Crisis in 1991. In 1994 and 1995, the United States waived around 700 million dollars in debt relief to the kingdom (costing it $400 million accounting wise) after the signing of the peace treaty with Israel. In 1997, Congress increased aid to Jordan significantly to reach its present levels of $150 million in economic aid and $75 million in military aid. In 1999 and 2000, Congress allocated an additional $200 million in military assistance and $100 million in economic assistance as part of the Wye Agreement. Also,
The U.S. has given Jordan additional assistance in the form of wheat grants starting in 1999. U.S. Aid to Jordan is estimated to increase by $300 million in 2003 which $200 million will be in economic assistance and $100 million in military assistance"<snip
http://www.jordanembassyus.org/new/aboutjordan/uj1.shtml