Consider this:
If, 17 years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton or Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had insisted that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin freeze all settlement construction, including in Jerusalem, before Arafat would sit down with Rabin, there would have been no Oslo agreements.
... The same year as the famous handshake on the White House lawn, 1993, the Rabin government completed the construction of more than 6,000 units in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood of East Jerusalem, out of a total of 13,000 units that were in various stages of completion in areas of the city that had been outside Israeli lines before 1967.
So Arafat did sit down with Rabin, even while Israel's construction in Jerusalem continued.
And, on Sept. 13, 1993, the Oslo peace accord was signed -- by the same Mahmoud Abbas who refuses to sit down today.
And on October 14, 1994, Rabin, who built homes for Jews in East Jerusalem, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Altogether, Israel completed 30,000 dwelling units in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem in the four years of Rabin's government.
Even the Jan. 9, 1995, announcement of a plan to build 15,000 additional apartments in East Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the 1967 borders (especially Pisgat Zeev, Neve Yaacov, Gilo, and Har Homa) did not stop negotiations, which resulted in the Oslo II accord of September 28, 1995.
Israeli construction continued while Abbas and Rabin signed an historic accord.
OBAMA AND ABBAS ARE THEREFORE NOW TRYING TO IMPLEMEMENT A NEW POLICY AND TERRIBLE IN ORDERR TO SCREW ISRAEL.
IT WON'T STAND.
A UNITED JERUSALEM WILL BE HERE LONG AFTER BARACK HUSSEIN SOETORO OBAMA IS GONE.
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Screw Israel? Every year, the US gives to Israel more money and weapons than to all other countries combined. After 50 years of this, Israel should follow our advice. We only pretend that it is a sovereign nation, to please, an over-represented Jewish caucus. We can and should demand anything we want.
yoink - u antisemitic misinformed piece of stupid nameless dogshit - you are wrong when you write:
"the US gives to Israel more money and weapons than to all other countries combined."
the arabs get more than israel - from the usa.
Since 1974, Israel has received nearly $100 billion in assistance, including three special aid packages. The first followed the signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty and Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai. The redeployment of Israeli forces and rebuilding of air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion. To partially compensate for this sacrifice, Israel received $3 billion ($2.2 billion of which was in the form of high-interest loans) in U.S. aid in 1979.
The second special package was approved in 1985, following a severe economic crisis in Israel, which sent inflation rates soaring as high as 445 percent. The $1.5 billion in emergency assistance-disbursed in two installments, in 1985 and 1986-was provided as part of Israel's economic stabilization program, which was implemented under the guidance of the U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG).
An extraordinary package was approved in 1996 to help Israel fight terrorism. Israel is to receive a total of $100 million, divided equally between fiscal years 1996 and 1997.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/foreign_aid.html
Altogether, since 1949, Israel has received more than $106 billion in assistance. This includes the four special allocations, the $10 billion in loan guarantees (spread over five years) approved in 1992, the $9 billion in guarantees offered in 2003, and a variety of other smaller assistance-related accounts, such as refugee resettlement (nearly $1.6 billion overall since 1973), the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad Program (ASHA), which supports schools, libraries and medical centers that demonstrate American ideas and practices (($144 million), and cooperative development programs (a total of $186 million since 1981).
The total does not include funds for joint military projects like the Arrow missile (for which Israel has received more than $1 billion in grants since 1986), which are provided through the Defense budget. President Bush requested $60 million for the Arrow for FY2003 and $136 million in FY2004. The United States also has provided $53 million for the Boost Phase Intercept program and $139 million for the Tactical High Energy Laser program under development in Israel to complement the Arrow.
U.S. economic grants to Israel ended in 1959. U.S. aid to Israel from then until 1985 consisted largely of loans, which Israel repaid, and surplus commodities, which Israel bought. Israel began buying arms from the United States in 1962, but did not receive any grant military assistance until after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As a result, Israel had to go deeply into debt to finance its economic development and arms procurement. The decision to convert military aid to grants that year was based on the prevailing view in Congress that without a strong Israel, war in the Middle East was more likely, and that the U.S. would face higher direct expenditures in such an eventuality.
Israel has received more direct aid from the United States since World War II than any other country, but the amounts for the first half of this period were relatively small. Between 1949 and 1973, the U.S. provided Israel with an average of about $122 million a year, a total of $3.1 billion (and actually more than $1 billion of that was loans for military equipment in 1971-73) . Prior to 1971, Israel received a total of only $277 million in military aid, all in the form of loans as credit sales. The bulk of the economic aid was also lent to Israel. By comparison, the Arab states received nearly three times as much aid before 1971, $4.4 billion, or $170 million per year. Moreover, unlike Israel, which receives nearly all its aid from the United States, Arab nations have gotten assistance from Asia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the European Community. Congress first designated a specific amount of aid for Israel (an "earmark") in 1971.
The bulk of the economic aid was also lent to Israel. By comparison, the Arab states received nearly three times as much aid before 1971, $4.4 billion, or $170 million per year. Moreover, unlike Israel, which receives nearly all its aid from the United States, Arab nations have gotten assistance from Asia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the European Community. Congress first designated a specific amount of aid for Israel (an "earmark") in 1971.
repeat:
Moreover, unlike Israel, which receives nearly all its aid from the United States, Arab nations have gotten assistance from Asia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the European Community.
Between 1949 and 1973, the U.S. provided Israel with an average of about $122 million a year, a total of $3.1 billion (and actually more than $1 billion of that was loans for military equipment in 1971-73) . Prior to 1971, Israel received a total of only $277 million in military aid, all in the form of loans as credit sales. The bulk of the economic aid was also lent to Israel. By comparison, the Arab states received nearly three times as much aid before 1971, $4.4 billion, or $170 million per year.
REPEAT:
By comparison, the Arab states received nearly three times as much aid before 1971, $4.4 billion, or $170 million per year.
DULL TRUTH HERE YOINK - U STUPID PIECE OF CRAP:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf21.html#g
EXCERPT:
MYTH
“The U.S. has always given Israel arms to insure it would have a qualitative edge over the Arabs.”
FACT
The United States provided only a limited amount of arms to Israel, including ammunition and recoilless rifles, prior to 1962. In that year, President Kennedy sold HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, but only after the Soviet Union provided Egypt with long-range bombers.
By 1965, the U.S. had become Israel's main arms supplier. This was partially necessitated by West Germany's acquiescence to Arab pressure, which led it to stop selling tanks to Israel. Throughout most of the Johnson Administration, however, the sale of arms to Israel was balanced by corresponding transfers to the Arabs. Thus, the first U.S. tank sale to Israel, in 1965, was offset by a similar sale to Jordan.7
The U.S. did not provide Israel with aircraft until 1966. Even then, secret agreements were made to provide the same planes to Morocco and Libya, and additional military equipment was sent to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.8
As in 1948, the U.S. imposed an arms embargo on Israel during the Six-Day War, while the Arabs continued to receive Soviet arms. Israel's position was further undermined by the French decision to embargo arms transfers to the Jewish State, effectively ending their role as Israel's only other major supplier.
It was only after it became clear that Israel had no other sources of arms, and that the Soviet Union had no interest in limiting its sales to the region, that President Johnson agreed to sell Israel Phantom jets that gave the Jewish State its first qualitative advantage. "We will henceforth become the principal arms supplier to Israel," Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke told Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, "involving us even more intimately with Israel's security situation and involving more directly the security of the United States."9
From that point on, the U.S. began to pursue a policy whereby Israel's qualitative edge was maintained. The U.S. has also remained committed, however, to arming Arab nations, providing sophisticated missiles, tanks and aircraft to Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Thus, when Israel received F-15s in 1978, so did Saudi Arabia (and Egypt received F-5Es). In 1981, Saudi Arabia, for the first time, received a weapons system that gave it a qualitative advantage over Israel — AWACS radar planes.
Today, Israel buys near top-of-the-line U.S. equipment, but many Arab states also receive some of America's best tanks, planes and missiles. The qualitative edge may be intact, but it is undoubtedly narrow.
At least Obama is handling this issue the right way. The candy store is closing, Rosen. Crying 'Anti-Semite' isn't cutting it anymore. You have used it too often. It is just another version of the race card, and we are tired of it. If not supporting Israel earns me the label of anti-semite, then so be it. Without Israel, there would be no middle-eastern terrorism.
OTTO:
U R A MORONIC ANTISEMITIC PIECE OF CRAP.
THE TERM "MIDDLE EASTERN TERROR" PROVES IT.
SO-CALLED "MIDDLE EASTERN TERROR" IS NO DIFFERENT THAN THAT IN THE PHILIPPINES, THAILAND, JAVA, INDIA, KASHMIR, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, EGYPT, ALGERIA, MOROCCO, NIGERIA, SUDAN, YEMEN, SOMALIA, KENYA, CHECHNYA, RUSSIA -AND SO ON.
IT'S GLOBAL JIHAD, STUPID!
BLAMING JOOOOOOOZE OR ISRAEL FOR "MIDDLE EASTERN TERROR" MAKES AS MUCH SENSE AS BLAMING BUSHCHENEYHITLERHALIBURTON FOR 9/11.
Are you serious? Talk? I am so sick of this situation with our "ally" who is doing everything possible to stall the progress of a Palestinian state, drag us in to another war at their behest, and make the US the target of more terrorist!
Wake up and smell the coffee! We should stop all aid, make Israel stand on it's own with thier policy of bullying the Middle East into submission. See how long that lasts.
NO US SOLDIER EVER SERVED OR DIED DEFENDING ISRAEL.
US SOLDIERS HAVE DIED FOR LEBANON. KUWAIT. AFGHANISTAIN. AND IRAQ.
NONE FOR ISRAEL.
ARABS GET MORE US AID THAN ISRAEL, LOOKITUP. AND THEY GET AID FROM RUSSIA AND THE EU, TOO.
SO, DONNA: YOU ARE FUCKING ANTISEMITIC PIECE OF SHIT. OR A DUPE OF THE LEFT.
BYE.
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