Dobbs: Not so smart when it comes to the Middle East

"A nation which has women and children sleeping in alleys and eating out of trash bins has no business sending tax dollars to a foreign nation. Israel has cost the United States four times the entire cost of the Apollo Moon Program. And is about to cost us far more." /What Really Happened/

Dobbs: "Not so smart when it comes to the Middle East"
While the United States provides about $2.5 billion in military and economic aid to Israel each year, U.S. aid to Lebanon amounts to no more than $40 million. This despite the fact that the per capita GDP of Israel is among the highest in the world at $24,600, nearly four times as high as Lebanon's GDP per capita of $6,200.

Lebanon's lack of wealth is matched by the Palestinians -- three out of every four Palestinians live below the poverty line. Yet the vast majority of our giving in the region flows to Israel. This kind of geopolitical inconsistency and shortsightedness has contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict that the Western world seems content to allow to perpetuate endlessly.
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