That's a pretty flashy statement, I'm curious as to where this statistic comes from.
Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion
from the Christian Science Monitor....
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html
The American Educational Trust (AET) is a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC in 1982 by retired U.S. foreign service officers to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states. AET perceives a dearth in knowledge about the Middle East, Arabs, and Muslims, in the U.S., and pursues an educational mission of "Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans; Interpreting North America for the Middle East."
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/010201/0101015.html
AET's Foreign Policy Committee has included former U.S. ambassadors, government officials, and members of Congress, including the late Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, and Republican Senator Charles Percy, both former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Members of AET's Board of Directors and advisory committees receive no fees for their services.
AET does not take partisan domestic political positions. In general, AET supports Middle East solutions which it judges to be consistent with the charter of the United Nations, international law, the Geneva Conventions, and traditional American support for human rights, self-determination, and fair play.
The common figure given for U.S. aid to Israel is $3 billion per year—$1.2 billion in economic aid and $1.8 billion in military aid. As impressive as this figure is, however, since it represents about one-sixth of total U.S. foreign aid, the true figure is even more remarkable.
Unquestionably, Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II. Estimates for total U.S. aid to Israel vary, however, because of the uncertainties and ambiguities described above. An Oct. 27, 2000 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, using available and verifiable numbers, gives cumulative aid to Israel from 1949 through FY 2000 (which ended Sept. 30, 2000) at $81.38 billion. On the other hand, last year the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs estimated total aid to Israel through FY 2000 at $91.82 billion.
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=11497
Israel will receive $2.4 billion. Since the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in 1979, Israel has received up to $3 billion in aid annually from the US.
The following sight is decidedly anti-Israel. So, I'll just upload the text, and you can do the due diligence for your self.
Israel wants free warships from Germany
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:26:53 GMT
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Israel has asked Germany to deliver two warships for free.
In a request that has caught the Berlin government off guard, Israel has asked for the delivery of two expensive German-made warships "free of charge".
The German daily Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Saturday that Tel Aviv has asked Germany to help bolster its defenses by providing a pair of MEKO corvettes that would probably cost hundreds of millions of euros.
Built at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, the ships feature advanced radar-evading capabilities and are exclusively designed to carry US-made missile systems.
Israel receives much of its military funding and equipment from the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, US military aid to Israel will total $2.55 billion in 2009.
Tel Aviv has also received assistance from Germany over the years.
The Kiel shipyard Howaldtswerken Deutsche Werft had earlier delivered three submarines between 1999 and 2000.
In addition, two more submarines are currently being built in Kiel, costing at least 500 million euros apiece, for which Germany is to pay a third. They are slated to be delivered to Israel by 2012.
Berlin has not yet responded to the request, but according to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, "influential politicians in northern Germany" are secretly supporting the deal, claiming it will help German shipyards weather the global economic downturn.
I can reference many, many "mainstream" U.S. sources that elaborate on the fact that Israel (again, a wealthy nation, unless you're an Arab Israeli) is by far the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid.
It's a bit harder to supply this information because many of the European "mainstream" press that dare deal with this issue is typically in their own language which does not facilitate this discussion. But, here's something from Haaretz directly. (an Israeli popular newspaper, i.e. "mainstream")
Germany has paid an estimated $25 billion (17 billion) in reparations to
Israeli Holocaust survivors, who, according to Factor, numbered 350,000 to 400,000 at their peak. It also transferred more than $700 million in goods and services to the Israeli government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927160.html
Seriously, this "topic" is endless, and the facts stand for themselves. ****I've done a lot to expose what many Americans are not too aware of. I challenge the dissenters to discredit these accussations.
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