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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
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      " Although one of the principal offenders fled the United States to escape
      prosecution, no significant penalties were assessed. ADL's Northern
      California office was ordered to comply with requests by persons upon whom
      dossiers had been prepared to see their own files, but no one went to jail and
      as yet no one has paid fines.

      Not surprisingly, a defecting employee revealed in an article he published in
      the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that AIPAC, too, has such
      "enemies" files. They are compiled for use by pro-Israel journalists like
      Steven Emerson and other so-called "terrorism experts," and also by
      professional, academic or journalistic rivals of the persons described for use
      in black-listing, defaming, or denouncing them. What is never revealed is that
      AIPAC's "opposition research" department, under the supervision of Michael
      Lewis, son of famed Princeton University Orientalist Bernard Lewis, is the
      source of this defamatory material.

      But this is not AIPAC's most controversial activity. In the 1970s, when
      Congress put a cap on the amount its members could earn from speakers'
      fees and book royalties over and above their salaries, it halted AIPAC's most
      effective ways of paying off members for voting according to AIPAC
      recommendations. Members of AIPAC's national board of directors solved the
      problem by returning to their home states and creating political action
      committees (PACs).

      Most special interests have PACs, as do many major corporations, labor
      unions, trade associations and public-interest groups. But the pro-Israel
      groups went wild. To date some 126 pro-Israel PACs have been registered,
      and no fewer than 50 have been active in every national election over the past
      generation.

      An individual voter can give up to $2,000 to a candidate in an election cycle,
      and a PAC can give a candidate up to $10,000. However, a single special
      interest with 50 PACs can give a candidate who is facing a tough opponent,
      and who has voted according to its recommendations, up to half a million
      dollars. That's enough to buy all the television time needed to get elected in
      most parts of the country.

      Even candidates who don't need this kind of money certainly don't want it to
      become available to a rival from their own party in a primary election, or to an
      opponent from the opposing party in a general election. As a result, all but a
      handful of the 535 members of the Senate and House vote as AIPAC
      instructs when it comes to aid to Israel, or other aspects of U.S. Middle East
      policy.

      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?

      Hiding AIPAC's Tracks

      In fact, the congressmembers know it when they list the contributions they
      receive on the campaign statements they have to prepare for the Federal
      Election Commission. But their constituents don't know this when they read
      these statements. So just as no other special interest can put so much "hard
      money" into any candidate's election campaign as can the Israel lobby, no
      other special interest has gone to such elaborate lengths to hide its tracks.

      Although AIPAC, Washington's most feared special-interest lobby, can hide
      how it uses both carrots and sticks to bribe or intimidate members of
      Congress, it can't hide all of the results.

      Anyone can ask one of their representatives in Congress for a chart prepared
      by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress,
      that shows Israel received $62.5 billion in foreign aid from fiscal year 1949
      through fiscal year 1996. People in the national capital area also can visit the
      library of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rosslyn,
      Virginia, and obtain the same information, plus charts showing how much
      foreign aid the U.S. has given other countries as well.

      Visitors will learn that in precisely the same 1949-1996 time frame, the total
      of U.S. foreign aid to all of 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, DC, 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.

      Shocking Comparisons

      These comparisons already seem shocking, but they are far from the whole
      truth. Using reports compiled by Clyde Mark of the Congressional Research
      Service and other sources, freelance writer Frank Collins tallied for
      theWashington Report all of the extra items for Israel buried in the budgets of
      the Pentagon and other federal agencies in fiscal year 1993.Washington
      Report news editor Shawn Twing did the same thing for fiscal years 1996 and
      1997.

      They uncovered $1.271 billion in extras in FY 1993, $355.3 million in FY 1996
      and $525.8 million in FY 1997. These represent an average increase of 12.2
      percent over the officially recorded foreign aid totals for the same fiscal years,
      and they probably are not complete. It's reasonable to assume, therefore,
      that a similar 12.2 percent hidden increase has prevailed over all of the years
      Israel has received aid.

      As of Oct. 31, 1997 Israel will have received $3.05 billion in U.S. foreign ai
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      Kontynuacja tekstu:

      "As of Oct. 31, 1997 Israel will have received $3.05 billion in U.S. foreign aid
      for fiscal year 1997 and $3.08 billion in foreign aid for fiscal year 1998. 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. Assuming that the actual
      totals from other budgets average 12.2 percent of that amount, that brings the
      grand total to $83,204,827,200.

      But that's not quite all. Receiving its annual foreign aid appropriation during
      the first month of the fiscal year, instead of in quarterly installments as do
      other recipients, is just another special privilege Congress has voted for
      Israel. It enables Israel to invest the money in U.S. Treasury notes. That
      means that the 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.

      It's worth noting that that figure does not include U.S. government loan
      guarantees to Israel, of which Israel has drawn $9.8 billion to date. They
      greatly reduce the interest rate the Israeli government pays on commercial
      loans, and they place additional burdens on U.S. taxpayers, especially if the
      Israeli government should default on any of them. But since neither the
      savings to Israel nor the costs to U.S. taxpayers can be accurately
      quantified, they are excluded from consideration here.

      Further, friends 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
      Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government loan. The truth of
      the matter is complex, and designed to be so by those who seek to conceal
      it from the U.S. taxpayer.

      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. On other loans, Israel was expected to pay the interest
      and eventually to begin repaying the principal. But the so-called Cranston
      Amendment, which has been attached by Congress to every foreign aid
      appropriation since 1983, provides that economic aid to Israel will never dip
      below the amount Israel is required to pay on its outstanding loans. In short,
      whether U.S. aid is extended as grants or loans to Israel, it never returns to
      the Treasury.

      Israel enjoys other privileges. While most countries receiving U.S. military aid
      funds are expected to use them for U.S. arms, ammunition and training,
      Israel can spend part of these funds on weapons made by Israeli
      manufacturers. Also, when it spends its U.S. military aid money on U.S.
      products, Israel frequently requires the U.S. vendor to buy components or
      materials from Israeli manufacturers. Thus, though Israeli politicians say that
      their own manufacturers and exporters are making them progressively less
      dependent upon U.S. aid, in fact those Israeli manufacturers and exporters
      are heavily subsidized by U.S. aid.

      Although it's beyond the parameters of this study, it's worth mentioning that
      Israel also receives foreign aid from some other countries. After the United
      States, the principal donor of both economic and military aid to Israel is
      Germany.

      By far the largest component of German aid has been in the form of
      restitution payments to victims of Nazi attrocities. But there also has been
      extensive German military assistance to Israel during and since the Gulf war,
      and a variety of German educational and research grants go to Israeli
      institutions. The total of German assistance in all of these categories to the
      Israeli government, Israeli individuals and Israeli private institutions has been
      some $31 billion or $5,345 per capita, bringing the per capita total of U.S.
      and German assistance combined to almost $20,000 per Israeli. Since very
      little public money is spent on the more than 20 percent of Israeli citizens
      who are Muslim or Christian, the actual per capita benefits received by
      Israel's Jewish citizens would be considerably higher.

      True Cost to U.S. Taxpayers

      Generous as it is, what Israelis actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less
      than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is
      that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the
      U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing.

      In an article in the Washington Report for December 1991/January 1992,
      Frank Collins estimated the costs of this interest, based upon prevailing
      interest rates for every year since 1949. I have updated this by applying a
      very conservative 5 percent interest rate for subsequent years, and confined
      the amount upon which the interest is calculated to grants, not loans or loan
      guarantees.

      On this basis the $84.8 billion in grants, loans and commodities Israel has
      received from the U.S. since 1949 cost the U.S. an additional
      $49,936,880,000 in interest.

      There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all
      of the $45.6 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt since Egypt made peace with
      Israel in 1979 (compared to $4.2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt for the preceding
      26 years). U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, which is pegged at two-thirds of U.S.
      foreign aid to Israel, averages $2.2 billion per year.

      There also have been immense political and military costs to the U.S. for its
      consistent support of Israel during Israel's half-century of disputes with the
      Palestinians and all of its Arab neighbors. In addition, there have been the
      approximately $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees and perhaps $20 billion in
      tax-exempt contributions made to Israel by American Jews in the nearly
      half-century since Israel was created.

      Even excluding all of these extra costs
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      "Even excluding all of these extra costs, America's $84.8 billion in aid to Israel
      from fiscal years 1949 through 1998, and the interest the U.S. paid to borrow
      this money, has cost U.S. taxpayers $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation.
      Or, put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis
      received from the U.S. government by Oct. 31, 1997 has cost American
      taxpayers $23,240 per Israeli.

      It would be interesting to know how many of those American taxpayers
      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."

      Richard Curtiss, a retired U.S. foreign service officer, is the executive editor
      of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.


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      JAKIE SA PRAWDZIWE KOSZTY PONOSZONE PRZEZ USA NA UTRZYMANIE IZRAELA??? Autor:
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      3, slownie T R Z Y, miliardy? Nie, to bajeczka dobra dla skautow

      LK: Nawet te 5.5 mld to tez nie wszystko. Z samej Australii plyna do Izraela rocznie setki milionow, a
      jest jeszcze
      Poludniowa Afryka (pracowalem tam jako analityk w zydowskiej firmie zwanej dla niepoznaki
      "Anglo-American",
      siedziba glowna w Londynie, tuz obok Trafalagar Square) , Kanada i cala Zachodnia Europa.
      Przykladowo: jeden taki
      magnat kopalniany (glownie zloto), niejaki Jozio (Joseph) Gutnik (Gutnick) wysyla co roku grube
      miliony z Australii do
      Izraela, i to na poparcie najbardziej skrajnych ortodoksow i na budowe nielegalnych osiedli na
      terenach bezprawnie
      zabranych Palestynczykom.

      Panstwo Izrael to najwiekszy pasozyt w historii swiata, nawet Watykan sie przy nim moze schowac.

      A glupi Polacy chca ginac za USA, czyli Izrael, bo mysla, ze Stany Zjednoczone Ameryli Pln. to nasz
      przyjaciel. A to
      taki sam przyjaciel jakimi przed wojna (II, jakby sie kto pytal) byly Hitlerowskie Niemcy i Sowiecka
      Rosja - z
      obydwoma mielismy pdpisane piekne a uroczyste pakty, takie sobie przedwojenne mini-NATO...

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        Gość portalu: Kagan napisał(a):
        > Panstwo Izrael to najwiekszy pasozyt w historii swiata (...)

        Niestety ma Pan racje. Oto kolejna wypowiedz na ten temat w prasie amerykanskiej:

        U.S. Aid to Israel:
        What U.S. Taxpayer Should Know

        by Tom Malthaner

        " This morning as I was walking down Shuhada Street in Hebron, I saw
        graffiti marking the newly painted storefronts and awnings. Although
        three months past schedule and 100 percent over budget, the
        renovation of Shuhada Street was finally completed this week. The
        project manager said the reason for the delay and cost overruns was
        the sabotage of the project by the Israeli settlers of the Beit Hadassah
        settlement complex in Hebron. They broke the street lights, stoned
        project workers, shot out the windows of bulldozers and other heavy
        equipment with pellet guns, broke paving stones before they were laid
        and now have defaced again the homes and shops of Palestinians with
        graffiti. The settlers did not want Shuhada St. opened to Palestinian
        traffic as was agreed to under Oslo 2. This renovation project is paid for
        by USAID funds and it makes me angry that my tax dollars have paid
        for improvements that have been destroyed by the settlers.

        Most Americans are not aware how much of their tax revenue our
        government sends to Israel. For the fiscal year ending in September 30,
        1997, the U.S. has given Israel $6.72 billion: $6.194 billion falls under
        Israel's foreign aid allotment and $526 million comes from agencies such
        as the Department of Commerce, the U.S. Information Agency and the
        Pentagon. The $6.72 billion figure does not include loan guarantees and
        annual compound interest totalling $3.122 billion the U.S. pays on
        money borrowed to give to Israel. It does not include the cost to U.S.
        taxpayers of IRS tax exemptions that donors can claim when they
        donate money to Israeli charities. (Donors claim approximately $1 billion
        in Federal tax deductions annually. This ultimately costs other U.S. tax
        payers $280 million to $390 million.)

        When grant, loans, interest and tax deductions are added together for
        the fiscal year ending in September 30, 1997, our special relationship
        with Israel cost U.S. taxpayers over $10 billion.

        Since 1949 the U.S. has given Israel a total of $83.205 billion. The
        interest costs borne by U.S. tax payers on behalf of Israel are $49.937
        billion, thus making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949
        $133.132 billion. THIS MAY MEAN THAT U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN
        MORE FEDERAL AID TO THE AVERAGE ISRAELI CITIZEN IN A GIVEN
        YEAR THAN IT HAS GIVEN TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZEN.

        I am angry when I see Israeli settlers from Hebron destroy
        improvements made to Shuhada Street with my tax money. Also, it
        angers me that my government is giving over $10 billion to a country
        that is more prosperous than most of the other countries in the world
        and uses much of its money for strengthening its military and the
        oppression of the Palestinian people."

        http://www.wrmea.com/usaidtoisrael.htm
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