Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Exposing US Aid to Israel

This is a short clip from the documentary "Occupation 101." The full film is available on youtube and provides an incredibly concise and informative primer on the Israeli military occupation, illegal settlements, the separation wall, and daily life in the Palestinian territories. Anyone seeking a starting point to learn about the conflict should most certainly sit down and watch this film.

No bias, just cold, hard facts. (Of course, even simple facts are tough to admit for some.)

The most recent aid package to Israel consists of $30 billion over the next 10 years. This figure of $3 billion every year is equivalent to placing $500, directly from American taxpayers pockets, into the pocket of every one of the 6 million Israeli citizens. Is this an appropriate government expenditure of your hard-earned money? Israel has also been the top recipient of US foreign aid every year from 1976 to the present. It is truly a pity more Americans are not informed about this issue. Surely we cannot rely on mass media to question this squandering of US taxpayer money on just one, economically prosperous, militarily powerful nation.
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