What does the ME conflict mean to Americans?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability in the Middle East region and perhaps the entire world, but America’s blind support to the Jewish state and its brutal policy against the Palestinians is aggravating the situation and ruining any international efforts aimed at ending this long standing conflict.

According to what’s being reported by the media, Israel receives some billion every year from the United States in the form of economic aid- But that is nothing but the tip of the iceberg. The American economy is suffering severe losses as a result of the generous aid the U.S. government gives Israel on a yearly basis.

The billions of dollars the Jewish state receives from Washington are being kept secret not to irk the American public already angry over its leader’s continuous failures and persistence to stay in Iraq.

American taxpayers have been required over the past decades to provide the Jewish state with money more than four times the U.S. spent to go to the moon.

What the press, specially the U.S. press avoids mentioning, is the true figures of aid money Bush’s admin sends Israel every year. What is also intentionally kept in the dark is the fact that the U.S.’s continuous and persistent support for Israel is extremely damaging to the U.S. interests.

Washington’s support for Israel, responsible for the tension and unrest that has plagued the Middle East region over the past years, interferes with the U.S. diplomatic ties with many of the Arab states, mostly oil-producing countries.

Support for the Jewish state has also proved to be one of the key reasons of the damaged ties and heated situation between the U.S. and the Muslims, who represent 1.2 billion people of the world consumers; which removes much-needed money from domestic American requirements.

The American taxpayers’ money, instead of being used domestically or help promoting real democracy and solve international disputes, is being sent aboard in support of a system of discrimination that contradicts what used to be the American principles of equality and democracy.

“The indirect or consequential losses suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel,” Shirl McArthur wrote in the May 2003 issue of Washington Report.