MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ISRAEL
WHERE'S OUR GIFTS, UNCLE SANTA?
By: Jim Moore
It's Christmastime, Uncle Santa, which means it's time for you to give us more presents. Like cash.
That was the latest crass demand from Israeli officials as they came to the White House last month and "asked" for an extra $4 billion in military aid to meet the rising costs of dealing with the suicide bombings (They didn't say anything about sticking around for the lighting of the Christmas tree.)
That's not all. With the gift-giving season in full swing, Israel also felt joyous enough to ask for an extra $8 billion in loan guarantees to help their stumbling economy, the bonds of which may never be repaid; meaning Uncle Santa gets hooked for both the principal and interest. Try that at your friendly bank.
All this gratuitous activity just surfaced in a revealing report by David .R Francis, staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor-- a report that got this writer's back get up, and put his teeth into true grit.
This is, indeed, the season for giving, and most of us feel our spirits soar and the mood get merry when we give to those we love. And even some we don't. But this whole Washington give-away scam every time Israeli expands its wish list,--together with its usual "you owe us" attitude-- is not only an insult to the American people, and a drain on our own shaky economy, but is frankly getting disastrous and way out of hand.
Some of the numbers and circumstances of Israeli "gift-getting" from the U.S. that Francis has provided us with are truly shocking. Even for Christmas.
Peeking inside Uncle Santa's sack at some of the Israeli "gifts" from the U.S. since 1975, Thomas Stauffer, a Washington economist, estimates that Israel has cost America about $1.6 trillion--about $5,700 per person., give or take.
But wait, Israel wants more. Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth. As the largest overall recipient of foreign "gifts", Israel is already slated to get $2.04 billion in military aid, and $720 million in economic aid, in fiscal 2003 What a .jingle-jingle Christmas they will have!
And Uncle Santa's sack of gifts is bottomless where generosity to Israel is concerned. Not content to merely give money directly to Israel, Uncle Santa's spirit of giving also includes $117 billion to Egypt and $22 billion to Jordan in foreign aid-for what reason? Why, for signing peace treaties with Israel, of course After all, peace has a price (even if we have to foot the bill), doesn't it?
To list and categorize all the largesse received by Israel from Uncle Santa through the years, we would need several more pages. But some highlights may give you an idea of how high Uncle Santa's holiday spirit soars when he hears the word Israel.
The U.S. has already guaranteed Israel $10 billion in commercial loans and $660 million in housing loans.
The U.S. has given Israel $2.5 billion to support its Lavi fighter and Arrow missile projects.
Israel buys America's excess military equipment at a discount (I can get it for you wholesale), costing us several billion dollars over recent years.
With U.S. help (read U.S. taxpayers) Israel has become a major weapons supplier; which represents nearly half of Israel's manufactured exports. And turn that around: Israel's blockage of some major U.S. arms sales to other countries has cost America $40 billion over 10 years.
Not requiring Israel to use its U.S. aid-money to buy American goods (a common exchange in foreign aid) has cost 125,000 American jobs. All this makes us not just the loser, but a patsy as well.
Is Stauffer's list of gifts to Israel accurate? Yes, says this economist. Although it may be controversial because to help compile this information he used a number of retired military and diplomatic officials who "do not go public for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic if they criticize U.S. policies toward Israel."
Good thing they don't. Israel and Uncle Santa would rather not have to tell anybody about this. It spoils the surprise.
Oh, by the way, this Christmas we won't be visiting the nativity scene in Bethlehem. We can't find any bullet-proof vests.
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