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In article <mL1koB8w165w@coriolis.UUCP> mitch@coriolis.UUCP (Mitch) writes:
>   arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
>
>   > Thank you for pointing out the obvious missing word.  Israel received
>   > $5.5 billion last year out of a total foreign aid budget of $13.5 billion.
>   > 
>   > The only reason the total budget is $13.5 billion is because in order to
>   > get Eqypt to Camp David we had to give them $1.5 billion and in order to 
>   > get Israel to come, we had to guarnatee that Israel would always get more.
>   > 
>   > I am not sure which is the stupider way of getting peace, starting wars
>   > or giving them money but sooner or later, we might notice the lack of
>   > peace in our own country.
>   > 
>
>   Of course, Egypt gets about $3 billion per year from the US, and got a 
>   $6 billion bonus last year for not objecting to the Gulf War, but that's 
>   probably just because they're puppets of the Zionist Conspiracy, right?

If you read the Camp David accords, you will find out that very little
of what they call for has actually happened.  In addition to the
actual peace between Israel and Egypt, the Camp David agreement calls
for a transitional Palestinian administration of the West Bank and
Gaza.  The transitional period was to have lasted no more than five
years, then full autonomy was to take place, pending Israeli,
Egyptian, and Jordanian approval.

Somehow, I think that the US was cheated on this deal.  We paid for a
Palestinian state, and we didn't get one.  We ought to ask for our
money back.

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=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)