November 20, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

"Although Congress authorizes America's foreign aid total, the fact that more than a third of it goes to a country smaller in both area and population than Hong Kong probably never has been mentioned on the floor of the Senate or House. Yet it's been going on for more than a generation.

"Probably the only members of Congress who even suspect the full total of U.S. funds received by Israel each year are the privileged few committee members who actually mark it up. And almost all members of the concerned committees are Jewish, have taken huge campaign donations orchestrated by Israel's Washington D.C. lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or both. These congressional committee members are paid to act, not talk. So they do and they don't."

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"The lobby that Israel and its supporters have built in the United States to make all this aid happen, and to ban discussion of it from the national dialogue, goes far beyond AIPAC, with its 15 million budget, its 150 employees, and its five or six registered lobbyists who manage to visit every member of Congress individually once or twice a year.

"AIPAC . . . can draw upon the resources of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a roof group set up solely to coordinate the efforts of some 52 national Jewish organizations on behalf of Israel."

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"There is something else very special about AIPAC's network of political action committees. Nearly all have deceptive names. Who could possibly know that the Delaware Valley Good Government Association in Philadelphia, San Franciscans for Good Government in California, Cactus PAC in Arizona, Beaver PAC in Wisconsin, and even Icepac in New York are really pro-Israel PACs under deep cover?"

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"(I)n precisely the 1949-1996 time frame, the total of U.S. foreign aid to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined was $62,497,800,000 - almost exactly the amount given to tiny Israel.

"According to the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, D.C., in mid-1995 the sub-Saharan countries had a combined population of 568 million. The $24,415 700,000 in foreign aid they had received by then amounted to $42.99 per sub-Saharan African.

"Similarly, with a combined population of 486 million, all of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean together had received $38,254,400,000. This amounted to $79 per person.

"The per capita U.S. foreign aid to Israel's 5.8 million people during the same period was $10,775.48. This meant that for every dollar the U.S. spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the United States, it spent $214 on an Israeli."

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"Adding the 1997 and 1998 totals to those of previous years since 1949 yields a total of $74,157,600,000 in foreign aid grants and loans."

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"(T)he U.S. which has to borrow the money it gives to Israel, pays interest on the money it has granted to Israel in advance, while at the same time Israel is collecting interest on the money. That interest to Israel from advance payments adds another $1,650 billion to the total, making it $84,854,827,200. That's the number you should write down for total aid to Israel. And that's $14,346 each for each man, woman and child in Israel."

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"(F)riends of Israel never tire of saying that Israel has never defaulted on repayment of a U.S. government loan. It would be equally accurate to say that Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government loan."

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"Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants, cooperating members of Congress exempted Israel from the U.S. oversight that would have accompanied grants."

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"It would be interesting to know how many of those American tax payers believe they and their families have received as much from the U.S. treasury as has everyone who has chosen to become a citizen of Israel. But it's a question that will never occur to the American public because, so long as America's mainstream media, Congress and president maintain their pact of silence, few Americans will ever know the true cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers."

Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid Since 1949 (as of November 1, 1997)

Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S. Aid to Israel

Thought for the Day:

"Right now a non-judicial agency in Canada is working very hard to find a legal, but obviously irrational, way to define the Internet as a telephone.

They are the enemies of reason. People do not like that. It is like legally defining a horse to be a cow and expecting milk."

(A ZGram reader, in response to censorship attempts against the Zundelsite)