...A bank loan is not aid, it is a loan with punitive interest rates that has to be paid back. Remember the loans given to Britain during WW2 and how it took till the early part of this century to pay them back. Selling arms and armaments is not AID it is BUSINESS and don't the USA sell the same stuff to Saudi Arabia in return for oil concessions ?
There's good reason for Jeremy Sharp of the Congressional Research Service to have included loans (starting with the "$100 million Export-Import Bank Loan" of 1949) in his summary of "US Foreign Aid to Israel", and that's at least in part because of the interest charged to the American People for every dollar printed by the FED. This interest is above and beyond any punitive interest attached to the loans themselves and is added to our national debt at the time of the money's printing. Every dollar distributed outside of the United States, whether by the FED or the US Government, has been printed at the expense of the US citizenry.
Now, because of the intentional destruction and/or hampering of oversight bodies that resulted from wide-sweeping deregulation policies beginning in the late 90's and continuing through to today, it's currently difficult for the public to measure the impact of US foreign aid (including those so-called "bank loans" you claim shouldn't count); but
as of 1997, when the grand total of non-adjusted aid to Israel reportedly stood at just under $85,000,000,000, the interest costs borne by the US (not the Israelis) was just under $50,000,000,000, making the total cost to the US citizenry just under $135,000,000,000!
If Sharp's
conservative numbers are to be believed, we've only stacked another $36,000,000,000 (not accounting for inflation
or interest to the American People) on top of those 1997 figures.
...Maybe you should ask the muslim in charge why he has increased Americas debt 3 fold to $17 TRILLION DOLLARS Not a thing to do with Israel is it, [...]
Well, I suppose if we didn't count *6 years worth of all direct and some indirect aid, as well as the interest borne by the American People as a result of that aid, then Israel wouldn't have had anything to do with it.
*Yes, I can include a significant portion of fiscal 2014, because allocated monetary aid to Israel is given in lump sums toward the beginning of each new fiscal year (more special treatment).
Well you cant single out one small part and claim that it is a LIE while relying on the rest to bolster your position.
But this shows that you are indeed LYING .........
In 1992, Israel received $10 billion in loan guarantees from the American government to help the nation rebuild after its economy took a major hit following the Gulf War. Israel repaid every loan it withdrew and the United States was never called on to fulfill it guarantor obligations. Likewise, Israel has never defaulted against the loan guarantees put in place in 2003.
So Israel has paid back all of its loans from the USA, including the interest leveed, and has actually helped the US economy in the process. So why has Americas International debt risen to close on $20 TRILLION and is still rising............
First of all, aren't you going to complain about the bias of my source there?
Selective bitching about source bias is a sign that
you're disingenuous in your approach.
That aside, the statement, "Israel repaid every loan it withdrew and the United States was never called on to fulfill it guarantor obligations." [sic], is in reference to loans taken out by Israel from institutions
other than the US Government, for which the American People essentially co-signed (for the most part without their knowledge or consent) and assumed all of the risk in place of Israel's lenders. It has nothing to do with the repayment of US loans granted by the FED on behalf of the US citizenry to Israel.
Toward addressing
the spirit of your misguided question, though, as noted by WRMEA contributing author Richard H. Curtiss:
[...]Further, friends of Israel never tire of saying that Israel has never defaulted on repayment of a U.S. government loan. It would be equally accurate to say Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government loan. The truth of the matter is complex, and designed to be so by those who seek to conceal it from the U.S. taxpayer.
Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants, cooperating members of Congress exempted Israel from the U.S. oversight that would have accompanied grants. On other loans, Israel was expected to pay the interest and eventually to begin repaying the principal. But the so-called Cranston Amendment, which has been attached by Congress to every foreign aid appropriation since 1983, provides that economic aid to Israel will never dip below the amount Israel is required to pay on its outstanding loans. In short, whether U.S. aid is extended as grants or loans to Israel, it never returns to the Treasury.[...]
Smoke, mirrors, and intentionally misleading language have been the tools of the trade for Zionist-based special interest groups all along; which explains the tactics and widespread misapprehensions among Zionist apologists like you, Phoenall.