David, Would you mind please trying to explain away the following statement from the document on the US State Department site that you had kindly directed me to?
"The Palestinians are the largest per capita recipients of foreign aid worldwide and, with a shattered economy, are mostly dependent on external support to meet basic needs." Regards, Alan Siegrist Orinda, CA, USA David J. Littleboy wrote: > > Yes, I understand that Palestinian supporters constantly whine and > > complain that the US always favors Israel and never want to admit the > > facts that the Palestinians had received essentially the same level of > > US foreign aid on a per capita basis as Israel. > > ??? What are you talking about ??? > > The population of Israel is 7.8 million. > > The Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza is 3.76 million. > > On a per capita basis, Israel gets more US foreign aid per year than the > total aid we've given to the Palestinians since WWII. > > David J. Littleboy > Tokyo, Japan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
