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Osoby zainteresowane odsylam do artykulu Richarda H. Curtissa, zamieszczonego w magazynie Washington
Report:
The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers
True Lies About U.S. Aid to Israel
By Richard H. Curtiss
DECEMBER 1997, Pages 43-45
For many years the American media said that "Israel receives $1.8 billion in
military aid" or that "Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid." Both
statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the
complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies--true lies.
Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that "Israel receives $3
billion in annual U.S. foreign aid." That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem
is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal
budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the
foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So
the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997
was $5,525,800,000.
One can truthfully blame the mainstream media for never digging out these
figures for themselves, because none ever have. They were compiled by the
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. But the mainstream media
certainly are not alone. 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, DC 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.
The same applies to the president, the secretary of state, and the foreign aid
administrator. They all submit a budget that includes aid for Israel, which
Congress approves, or increases, but never cuts. But no one in the executive
branch mentions that of the few remaining U.S. aid recipients worldwide, all
of the others are developing nations which either make their military bases
available to the U.S., are key members of international alliances in which the
U.S. participates, or have suffered some crippling blow of nature to their
abilities to feed their people such as earthquakes, floods or droughts.
Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it
seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit
those criteria. In fact, Israel's 1995 per capita gross domestic product was
$15,800. That put it below Britain at $19,500 and Italy at $18,700 and just
above Ireland at $15,400 and Spain at $14,300.
All four of those European countries have contributed a very large share of
immigrants to the U.S., yet none has organized an ethnic group to lobby for
U.S. foreign aid. Instead, all four send funds and volunteers to do economic
development and emergency relief work in other less fortunate parts of the
world.
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, in turn, 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.
Among them are Hadassah, the Zionist women's organization, which
organizes a steady stream of American Jewish visitors to Israel; the
American Jewish Congress, which mobilizes support for Israel among
members of the traditionally left-of-center Jewish mainstream; and the
American Jewish Committee, which plays the same role within the growing
middle-of-the-road and right-of-center Jewish community. The American
Jewish Committee also publishes Commentary,one of the Israel lobby's
principal national publications.
Perhaps the most controversial of these groups is B'nai B'rith's
Anti-Defamation League. Its original highly commendable purpose was to
protect the civil rights of American Jews. Over the past generation, however,
the ADL has regressed into a conspiratorial and, with a $45 million budget,
extremely well-funded hate group.
In the 1980s, during the tenure of chairman Seymour Reich, who went on to
become chairman of the Conference of Presidents, ADL was found to have
circulated two annual fund-raising letters warning Jewish parents against
allegedly negative influences on their children arising from the increasing
Arab presence on American university campuses.
More recently, FBI raids on ADL's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices
revealed that an ADL operative had purchased files stolen from the San
Francisco police department that a court had ordered destroyed because
they violated the civil rights of the individuals on whom they had been
compiled. ADL, it was shown, had added the illegally prepared and illegally
obtained material to its own secret files, compiled by planting informants
among Arab-American, African-American, anti-Apartheid and peace and
justice groups.
The ADL infiltrators took notes of the names and remarks of speakers and
members of audiences at programs organized by such groups. ADL agents
even recorded the license plates of persons attending such programs and
then suborned corrupt motor vehicles department employees or renegade
police officers to identify the owners.
Although one of the principal offenders fled the United States to escape
prosecution, no significant penalties were assessed. ADL's Northern
California office wa