and why is Israeli GDP what it is off american taxpayer funding.
Did you pass the 8th grade? My baby sister can parse a sentence better than this....what are you even trying to say?
and why is Israeli GDP what it is off american taxpayer funding.
Did you pass the 8th grade? My baby sister can parse a sentence better than this....what are you even trying to say?
Israel is what it is do to american aid. and nothing is wrong with the sentence though I can understand it easier to attack spelling than deal with the evils you support
Israel is living on US welfare; would not be a belligerent nuclear power without their child support notes from Official USGovt keepers of the People's money and secrets.
Israel spends about 15 billion on its military every year, US Military aid to Israel is about 2.5 billion. That's about 16%, if you consider that Israel gives 1 billion in aid to Gaza yearly... it's about 10% of total actualized military expenditures.
Why do Americans think they fund everything with their little bit of aid? As if the rest of the world is without the capability to maintain themselves. If you consider that their total AID to Israel is less than 2% of GDP...the US is not as big to Israel as they are to numerous other countries.
Jewish Voice for Peace said:U.S. military aid to Israel has a dramatic effect on Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. It has increasingly been used not to pay for defense but to finance the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. It keeps Israel from facing the difficult but necessary challenges of building a more democratic society, and encourages solving deep-rooted problems by military rather than peaceful and more effective means.
The U.S. funding that pays for the guns and ammunition, F-16 bombers, and Apache helicopters that are used to carry out Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and people serves neither Israelis, Palestinians, nor Americans.
In short, Israel cannot build a society based on the principles of democracy, human rights, and compliance with international law while brutally occupying another people and their land. The United States is currently paying for that occupation with its annual aid. That's why Jewish Voice for Peace urges the U.S. government to suspend military aid to Israel until Israel ends its 37-year occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.
Congress Watch said:Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II (not counting the huge sums being spent in Iraq). The $3 billion or so per year that Israel receives from the U.S. amounts to about $500 per Israeli. Most of this money is earmarked in the annual Foreign Operations (foreign aid) appropriations bills, with the three major items being military grants (Foreign Military Financing, or FMF), economic grants (Economic Support Funds, or ESF), and “migration and refugee assistance.” (Refugee assistance originally was intended to help Israel absorb Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, but this was expanded in 1985 to include all refugees resettling in Israel. In fact, Israel doesn’t differentiate between refugees and other immigrants, so this money is used for all immigrants to Israel.)
Not earmarked but also included in congresssional appropriations bills is Israel’s portion of grants for American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) and monies buried in the appropriations for other departments or agencies. These are mostly for so-called “U.S.-Israeli cooperative programs” in defense, agriculture, science, and hi-tech industries.
Before 1998, Israel received annually $1.8 billion in military grants and $1.2 billion in economic grants. Then, beginning in FY ‘99, the two countries agreed to reduce economic grants to Israel by $120 million and increase military grants by $60 million annually over 10 years. FY ’08 is the last year of that agreement, with military grants reaching $2.4 billion (reduced by an across-the-board rescission), and zero economic grants. Then, in August 2007, U.S. and Israeli officials signed a memorandum of understanding for a new 10-year, $30 billion aid package whereby FMF will gradually increase, beginning with $2.55 billion in FY ’09, and average $3 billion per year over the 10-year period.
No. not for Gaza rockets. CIWS is a gun, firing steel bullets, NOT $100,000 rockets and all it cost is the transportation from warehouse to Sderot.
Have you never read: http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1124159&postcount=115
I would hope you do as at times you are quite logical and, I think, not so filled with hate that you want a few Israelis killed to justify the high kill ratio policy.
"Why do Americans think they fund everything with their little bit of aid?"
Because Israel was carved out and has been maintained with money and weapons made in the USA.
Gun or rocket, they are still products of the military-industrial-complex, aren't they? Rockets can reach over terrain, but doesn't such a gun need line of sight to the target? Meaning you need more of them to cover the same amount of area.
I gave you the statistics, relative to its actual expenditures the aid is not all that significant.
So if the US provided $3 billion in weaponry, a few nukes, fighters, and submarines to
Hamas, this would also then be insignificant to you.
Look, Israel is a flaming military welfare-case, utterly beyond compare in the region. If you really can't see that, I'll try and find sources of information you won't dismiss. Can I have a list of common government and media sources that you would approve as references?
Look, Israel is a flaming military welfare-case, utterly beyond compare in the region. If you really can't see that, I'll try and find sources of information you won't dismiss. Can I have a list of common government and media sources that you would approve as references?
and that's not even counting a large percentage of their military isn't based on Israeli designed its based on what other countries have acheived. most of this being the heavier things. almost all of their tanks, planes, and fighting vechiles are based off of other countries designs or use their components.
So what? This is a pattern common to each Bloc.
You really can't figure it out. IT means that despite cheski's claim that Israel got to where it was today with the aid it got he's wrong.
True but they don't claim that without that help they would be just as well off. would Israel's economy and GDP be as strong as it is today if they had to spend 100's of billions of dollars on R&D over the years to get probably not as good equipment.Ad hom - and apparently you forgot your own statement. You claimed that Israel based its work on that of other nations. Well, so did most powers in the Eastern and Western Blocs.
I see you once again chose to miss they point. I know this.. But if you tried being intellectualy honest you would admit that truth undermines Cheskis point.Did you really not know this?
You really can't figure it out. IT means that despite cheski's claim that Israel got to where it was today with the aid it got he's wrong.
True but they don't claim that without that help they would be just as well off.