Financial Aid - The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving one-third of total US aid to foreign countries, even though Israel’s population comprises just .001% of the world’s population and has one the world’s higher per capita incomes *. [* Per capita annual income is over $20,000 in Isreal, compared to $700 per capita in Gaza for example.]
Military Aid - The United States provides direct and indirect military aid to Israel – totaling more than it gives to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean put together, whose combined total population is well over a billion.
Charitable Aid - Private donations to American charities initially constituted one quarter of Israel’s budget. Today, it is estimated that these tax-deductible donations exceed $1.5 billion per year. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax deductible contributions to a foreign government [Israel] does not exist for any other country.
[Washington Report on the Middle East]
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