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Originally Posted by Shawnski
I think you need to provide your support for that.
As far as I understand from digging around, Israeli population is almost 8 million but gets $ 3 billion in aid, so about $375 per capita (which is light years ahead of Afghanistan, which apparently comes in second for countries at about ~ $78 per capita.
When you indicate Palestinians get about $500 mill in aid, with their population of 4 million, that yields ~ $125 per capita. Now I am not sure if this $500 million you speak of is in addition to the Israeli aid or not, but bottom line is that those numbers do not support your position.
Israel gets by far, the most per capita aid on the planet from the US.
Edit, I found a good link. Foreign aid requests for fiscal year 2015.
Israel, $3.1 billion
Gaza and West Bank, $441 million. |
That is aid just from the US though. Israel only gets aid from the US, but the Palestinians get aid from many sources.
Someone was making the argument that the only reason the Israelis are so well off is the aid. I was making the counter argument that Palestinians get more aid, and it hasn't helped them.