But is this amount direct aid or does it also include loans? The pattern there is that they wind up being forgiven.
J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 6:56:52 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] FT on massacre
On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> It's a public fact that US annual US public aid to Israel has been ~
> $3B ever since Camp David. But has annual US private aid really
> consistently been ~$4.5B during that same period? To me that's
> news, and important news, esp. in a post 9/11 world where
> effectively cutting off private donations is now commonplace. Do
> you remember the sources for this figure?
I got the $7.5b from the IMF's International Financial Statistics. I recall hearing years ago that private aid was also in the $3b neighborhood. Some of the $7.5b might come from other countries as well.
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