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To: cloudmountain

Leftists and the usual Jew-haters make wild claims about US aid to Israel. Here’s a couple sources a little more reliable than most:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/multimedia/military-spending/

https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/foreign_commerce_aid/foreign_aid.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianwingfield/2011/01/29/making-sense-of-u-s-foreign-aid-to-egypt-and-elsewhere/

...The $1.5 billion requested for Egypt in the president’s fiscal year 2011 budget puts the country fourth on the list of recipients for aid managed by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development.

Only Afghanistan ($3.9 billion), Pakistan ($3.1 billion) and Israel ($3 billion) have more aid requested for them. Most of the money for these four countries is allocated for “peace and security,” a broad category that includes combating drug traffickers and terrorists as well as preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

In Egypt specifically, $1.3 billion of the requested amount this year is for “peace and security.”...


12 posted on 09/21/2014 2:59:41 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto
They send us petroleum and LNG and we sent them money: quid pro quo.
13 posted on 09/21/2014 3:00:55 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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