Israelis earn an average per capita income of $34,990 -- more than three-and-a-half times what its neighbors in Lebanon earn and almost 19 times more than Syrians take home each year -- yet the country continues to receive billions in U.S. aid.
You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-receives-3-1b-in-us-aid-while-the-middle-easts-poor-struggle-to-survive/210438/
Meanwhile, 51% of all US workers earn less than $30,000 per year:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/goodbye-middle-class-51-percent-of-all-american-workers-make-less-than-30000-dollars-a-year
I think perhaps they should be paying us.
Update - Nope. Let's give them even more:
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/10/21/us-plans-1-billion-annual-hike-in-israel-military-aid/
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