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Celestine Bohlen @ Bloomberg -- Israel will get $2.7 billion in military aid from the U.S. this year -- or 18 percent of Israel’s military budget. By 2013, that will lock into an annual level of $3.15 billion for five years. It also has almost $4 billion outstanding in available U.S. loan guarantees. That makes Israel the largest recipient of U.S. aid in the world, if you don’t count Iraq and Afghanistan.

Да как же можно не считать Ирак и Афганистан?! Их надо приплюсовывать!

Date: 2010-03-31 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_moss/
И Египет, и Иорданию

Date: 2010-03-31 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tek-cat.livejournal.com
однако, дела не ак плохи. раздаем денежку!

Date: 2010-03-31 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com
И округ Колумбию, Вирджинию и Мериленд.

Date: 2010-04-05 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yosefk.livejournal.com
Actually, of every $1G nominally given to Israel by the US government, $250M are effectively transferred to Israel itself and $750M are transferred to the US corporations from which Israel is allowed to buy stuff with the money at 4x the market price.

Date: 2010-04-05 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com
Это называется "давайте вынем руки друг у друга из карманов".

Date: 2010-04-05 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yosefk.livejournal.com
По мне так чем скорей, тем лучше.