It has been said, "it's always about the money" and that the love of money is at the root of all evil.
On a daily basis, since 2007, American tax payers have provided more than $6.8 million to Israel, and that is not including the $137.894 million for joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense projects or the $1.4 billion in loan guarantees.
"Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain."- John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
"U.S. aid to Israel is the lowest it has been since 1981 due to the fact that we have slowly been phasing out economic aid to Israel and gradually replacing it with increased military aid. Within several years, military aid to Israel will have reached $3.1 billion each year (or an average of $8.49 million a day). Thus, U.S. tax dollars are subsidizing one of the most powerful foreign militaries...Contrary to ordinary U.S. policy, Israel has been and continues to be allowed to use 26% of this military aid to purchase equipment from Israeli manufacturers...By all accounts the United States has given more money to Israel than to any other country. The Congressional Research Service's conservative estimate of total cumulative US aid to Israel (not adjusted for inflation) from 1949 through 2007 is $101.1908 billion. A July 2006 Washington Report article "A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $108 Billion," by Shirl McArthur, puts the cumulative total even higher. [2]
I do agree with Coulter in her claim that, "Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy."
Jesus warned his followers that what ever we do or do not do unto the least-the poor, oppressed, widow, orphan, refugee, prisoner, diseased, outcast of all sorts- we do it or do not do it unto God.
When you are right you cannot be too radical, but in our Orwellian world the very wrong are called the right.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter
2. click here
