Israeli supporters, is it true and What America gained out of this deal?

Israeli supporters, is it true and What America gained out of this deal?

Facts of Massive Payments to Israel

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According to a recent article in the New York Times, American taxpayers have give over $77 billion to the Jewish nation of Israel since 1967. This huge giveaway program of the American government actually amounts to about $16,500 for every Jew (man, woman, and child) in the nation. Much of this money comes as a result of the activities of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is the largest of the 80 odd Jewish lobbies in Washington. These lobbies are interested in getting congressmen and senators elected that will continue Israel's favored nation status with the U.S. Government. For example, gifts to potential candidates for the 1989-1990 election amounted to $8 million according to Federal Election Commission reports. As a result of these bribes, Israel has been successful in obtaining approximately $10 billion dollars in aid last year alone. The U.S. government has virtually no say in how this money is spent. Any attempt to monitor the cash gifts is taken as an insult by the Israeli government which claims that as a sovereign nation, we should keep our hands off its internal affairs. Our hands have only one purpose--giving them more money. This one tiny nation of only four million people alone receives approximately one third of our foreign aid, and while foreign aid is actually decreasing to some central America and African nations, aid to Israel is on the steady rise. The chart above shows the amount of military and economic aid that has been given to Israel since Israel was carved out of Arab land in 1948. The sections shown in black are loans and the sections shown in white are gifts. The chart does not list other types of foreign aid such as aid for transportation, education, health services, etc.

I hope no on would be Accused of anti-Semitism for asking a simple question for the purpose of research and analysis!

A lot of it is not true.
Israel received about $2.5 billion in US aid last year, not 10 billion. Compare that to more than 150 billion spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Israel's population is about 7.4 million, not 4 million.
If you have to go back to 1989-1990 (20 years) to talk about AIPAC "bribes" to election candidates, you're really reaching.
"The chart above", given that there is no chart, refers to an article, copied and pasted here from another web site, in which there is a chart that gives statistics for 1992.
Other articles on that website, and others in which this article appears, include titles like:

A Call To White Americans
Jews and Their Lies
International Jew
Mein Kampf
Protocols of Zion
Racial Origin of Jews
Six Million Myth

Thanks for your unbiased, original, current, and well researched article. Clearly you have no ulterior motive.

That is interesting.

Here we are in 10 trillion dollars of debt a struggling economy and we still give billions of dollars to our butt buddy allies, who in return give us nothing.

You know the government is huge when we are babysitting the rest of the world.

yea, everything you said is true, so what.

there is an old hebrew saying if you have something i want, and i take it away from you, you obviously didn't want it as much as i did so im justified in taking it from you.

It is true and we gained nothing.

be careful my friend, you are starting to sound a lot like that kook at the museum....funny thing is, you sound like a lefty because this is how ya'll sound when you complain about the israelis and people in the MSM and here on Y!A are saying this is a crime of the right. so which are you....a leftwing jew hater, or a rightwing jew hater???this is getting confusing to me !!!

1. Would appreciate the date/page reference of this article, or link to it.

2. Foreign aid is given to many nations by the United States. Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East & surrounded by enemies - who decry their right to the land, vow to annihilate the land & it's people and who like you, apparently, believe that Israel was "carved out of Arab land" in 1948 (that quote from "the NY Times article" does not really read as something they would write. Additionally, the "article" references many unspecified lobbies and accusations of bribes to legislators w/out any specifics.

3. Foreign aid is a gift. Usually gift givers do not dictate how the gift is used.


*Added: After reading some of the respondents answers, I can honestly say that it is hard to believe that we are living in the year 2009. This is NOT a NY Times article, just because you say it is......proof please - date, page, link......

It's not anti-Semitism, it's fact. Israel and Egypt are the two biggest recipients of our foreign aid.

Just because Sean Hannity might say it's anti-Semitism doesn't make it so. After all, he pals around with neo-Nazis Hal Turner and Andy Martin, so he can't really talk.