Doesn USAID give more money to the Palestinians than many Arab countries? How can you claim that the United States is biased towards Israel when it provides plenty of aid to Egypt as well?
Since 1993, USAID has given $1.7 billion dollars to the Palestinians through humanitarian programs; in the same period, however, it has given an estimated $28 billion dollars ($2 billion a year) in mostly military funding to Israel. Israel takes in 30% of all American foreign aid – a disproportionately large amount for its population, more than all of Africa and South America combined. America has essentially given Israel a blank check and free reign – please see the Federation of American Scientists report here and the official numbers from the State Department here. U.S. aid to Egypt is pegged at 2/3 of the aid to Israel in recognition of the signing of the Camp David peace accords in 1979, which were hailed as a diplomatic coup at the time as it took Egypt “off the block” of Soviet influence. While the money has done little besides serve as an incentive for ensuring peace between Egypt and Israel, the difference between the aid to Egypt and Israel is that the former does not use its
