The US government provided $5.9 billion in foreign military assistance last year from American taxpayers’ money, according to a new report by the US State Department.
Israel with $3.1 billion, and Egypt with $1.3 billion, received about 75 percent of all US foreign military aid handed out by Washington in 2014, according to the government’s Foreign Assistance report.
Iraq and Jordan with $300 million and Pakistan with $280 million were next largest recipients of foreign military financing.
The $5.9 billion for military funding represents 17 percent of the roughly $35 billion the US spent on total foreign aid last year, according to the report.
Israel and Egypt were also the largest recipients of US economic aid with $3.1 billion and $1.5 billion respectively.
Afghanistan received $1.1 billion, Jordan $1 billion and Pakistan $933 million.
Despite Israel’s procurement of $6.2 billion in total annual aid from the US, the Zionist regime is seeking a new 10-year agreement worth $5 billion in annual military aid with Washington.
This is a significant increase from the $3.1 billion it has received yearly since a 2007 agreement with the George W. Bush administration that expires in 2017.
The aid package is separate from the annual US funding of nearly $500 million which is spent on Israel’s missile programs in recent years. It is also on top of US warfare equipment held in Israel, valued at $1.2 billion.
US military assistance to Israel has amounted to $124.3 billion since it began in 1962, according to a recent congressional report.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/11/437259/US-Foreign-Assistance-report
No doubt I’ll be preaching to the choir here, but the actual amount of US taxpayer funding that goes to Israel is orders of magnitude higher than the stated “official” amount.
Consider the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. It was never about stealing oil (which would have still been a murderous crime), and it sure as hell wasn’t about WMDs. It was about neutralizing a country that was viewed as an obstacle to Israeli hegemony. This disaster alone cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Indeed, the entire “War on Terror” has always been directed toward advancing the neocon/PNAC agenda: strengthening Israel by maintaining perpetual conflict between the West and the Muslim world. The total cost of this charade is already in the TRILLIONS of dollars, and it continues to rise. This is to say nothing of all the lost lives (both American and foreign), lost liberties, and lost moral standing due to the “War on Terror.” The only parties that have anything to gain are the Israelis and the “defense” industry.
Just imagine if all that money went to help our people and VETERANS, and the joos want more…