At 06:42 18/01/2009, Alan Siegrist wrote:
>So what exactly is "wrong" again? What you wrote and then blissfully rewrote. (Except the bit about things changing somewhat in 2006.) > the >Palestinians had received essentially the same level of US foreign aid on a >per capita basis as Israel. 3 minutes research produced this piece from The Washington Report is published by the American Educational Trust (AET), a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC by retired U.S. foreign service officers to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states: ---A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billionand Counting ... The impressive numbers for U.S. aid to Israel become even more so when they, and the attached conditions, are compared with other Middle East countries. The roughly $3.3 billion in annual aid compares with some $2 billion for Egypt, $225 million for Jordan, and $35 million for Lebanon. Aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA) is not earmarked, but has been running at about $100 million. Furthermore, aid to the PA is strictly controlled by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and goes for specific projects, mostly civil infrastructure projects such as water and sewers. http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/010201/0101015.html Palestinians, with their ruptured economy do get substantial aid per capita, especially from Arab states, but that is a different topic. john g --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
