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In article <EGGERTJ.92Jul27233251@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
>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.

ARF says:

what is far worse is that we got another saber rattling, nuclear rattlesnake
for our efforts.

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