George Bush's Gifts To Israel

  Let us take a read from an editorial in a newspaper based in Syria concerning all of the military gifts which Israel has gotten from President Bush and others which they are requesting in aid. Weapons to Israel isn't the entire point of the editorial though.

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Why All These Gifts?

By Ahmad Hamada 2008-6-13
Syria - Al-Thawra - Original Article (Arabic)

The American President George Bush has agreed to increase American military aid to Israel so that it will reach thirty billion dollars over the course of the next ten years.
The Pentagon for its part is informing the American Congress about a proposal to provide Israel with what will amount to 25 T-6A training aircraft along with added equipment in a deal worth 190 million dollars. Among the characteristics [of these aircraft] is that they will lessen fuel requirements by 66 percent.
In addition to the two reports published by the American press, Israel has requested from Washington that they be supplied with 25 F-30 jets [sic, should be F-35 jets] as part of their yearly financial aid.
Perhaps the essential question which presents itself after all this enormous military assistance which Israel continues to receive from its main ally in the world is: what peace are they talking about?! And what kind of peace are they making plans for during the course of the next ten years when military aid reaches this unimaginable level over one decade, [a decade] during which it is assumed will be accomplished a movement towards promoting the establishment of desired peace in the region?!
And when we try to better understand American thinking which continues to insist on wars and inflaming the world and assistance to Israel, then the last question is: where are the plans of the United States to feed more than 40 million hungry Americans. Only yesterday the [United Nations] Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) disclosed at its conference in Rome that [these Americans] need less than a quarter of this amount in order to cross the threshold out of poverty and secure a free and decent life for their families.
Thirty billion dollars in gifts, presents and generosity from one [country] to another is unprecedented in the history of the relations of the countries of the world at a time when this country which is giving all this huge amount to Israel suffers from many problems, the least of which is that 40 million of its inhabitants suffer from miserable poverty!!

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