In addition, there is the more than $1.5 billion in private U.S. funds that go to Israel annually in the form of $1 billion in private tax-deductible donations and $500 million in Israeli bonds.

Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes.

With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries.

That's absolutely crazy money to prop up an illegal state while they the hypocrites USA, rob other innocent indigenous people in other places in the world.Selective aid & filthy immoral low lifes exchanges of arms for death and repression to illegal occupiers of those indigenous peoples.What Mel Gibson said on the piss when arrested in US for drink driving was nothing compared to what a lot of straight talking people should be saying about this waste of money.

Without this - and the amount of money that Germany pays to Israel, incl. modernst weapons, like submarines, tanks, etc, that Israel gets as a gift from Germany - would not be war - neither in Afghanistan, nor Somalia, nor Irak.
What may the weapon industrie of both countries work for? USA will have millions of unemployeds at the moment! Germany lesser, but with the whole tail that hang on every worker in weapon-industrie, certainly 2 or 3 millions! This will be the worst case!
4 days before 9/11 Lockheed announced the need to fire until 70.000 workers! Remember ? The cold war was the finest for them! They do all, to get a new one!