Each day in 2012, Israel received $8,493,150.00 in aid from the United States. Palestine received $0 (click here for source, also elaborated on below).
The figure comes from the official 2012 U.S. Congressional Research Service report by Middle Eastern Affairs Specialist Jeremy M. Sharp. I'm sure the Palestinians are doing great now, what with all that aid and the extreme caution Israel exercises when deploying American-funded arms against Palestinian insurgents:
The figure comes from the official 2012 U.S. Congressional Research Service report by Middle Eastern Affairs Specialist Jeremy M. Sharp. I'm sure the Palestinians are doing great now, what with all that aid and the extreme caution Israel exercises when deploying American-funded arms against Palestinian insurgents:
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“Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain.”
- John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
For more, see "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
