On Mar 30, 6:03 am, "Old & Grumpy" <t.se...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> According what I have hear few years back USA is been giving
> Israel $10 billion for many years for they existence,<
Israel has received in both loans and in grants about $120B over its
60 years of existence. That averages out to about $2B a year on
average. But the bulk of the aid has been given since 1974, after the
Yom Kippur war, when the US began to talk Israel into giving Egypt
back the Sinai (for the third time since 1948). However, since 1973
the US has also become the major arms supplier to EGypt, Saudi Arabia
and other Arab countries, most of whom are hostile towards Israel, and
sells them more than twice as much arms as it gives to Israel. So part
of the reason why the US gives so much aid to Israel, is to be able to
sell arms to BOTH sides of the conflict, and because of the
territorial concessions the US talked Israel into making. Israel used
to get 60% of its oil needs from the Sinai.
> I believe we
> do not do that any longer so it should not be surprise to us that they
> are saying now dollar is worth nothing.
> Also according to today's news paper news US owes to forging
> Governments $90 trillion therefore USA should change the name to
> INTERNATIONAL DEBIT COUNTRY since we are own
> by forging gov.<
The US was a debtor country before WWI. Because of the world wars,
everyone had to buy from the US and so everyone owed the US money up
until the early 1970s. Now we are a debtor nation once again because
of the lavish lifestyle that many Americans got used to based on cheap
energy. Big houses and big cars. Now those heady days are over and the
bill has come due.
> By the way the Guidance/Control for the must sophisticated tanks
> that US have are made in Israel thanks to yours and mine Legislators.
> Tony<
No, because Israel today builds better and cheaper military hardware
than does the US. It has the highest ratio of scientists and technical
people in the world per capita, and most of them have military
experience so they know exactly what they need. If the guy working on
a guidance system is himself an active reservist who may have to use
his own device in a war, or his son or daughter may have to, you can
be sure that the end product will be the best for the buck. And that
is why Israel today is the third largest military systems ex****ter
after the US and Russia, and more or less ties with France depending
on the year. BTW, I used to live in Israel, and worked for nearly a
decade in hi tech industries in ISrael, most of it military related,
and so I know whereof I speak.
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