Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Mark Stapleton]

Once again Mark... you might check into your quoted numbers or at least offer a source for the "data" you present...

The amount of funds increases during JFK's tenure from and what happens in the first couple LBJ years???

So while Israel is dealing with Dimona and the Arabs... Aid to Israel FALLS - it is not until 1971 that Aid to Israel topples $300M and not until Ford does the Dam break.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...rael1.html

So please Mark... SUPPORT YOUR POSTS WITH SOME DATA... or a link, or a source... something other thatn "you say so"

Why can't I just support my posts with your data? How about this.....

The table of US aid to Israel you posted is from the CRS Report, so it's reliable. Well done.

And in one respect I was wrong. A look at the table shows that combined US foreign and military aid to Israel in FY 1966 was $216 million, not $300 million. Apologies for that error. However, a closer look at the numbers tends to support my argument rather than your dismissal of it.

JFK was inaugurated in 1961. Hence, his three fiscal budget years were 62, 63 and 1964. LBJ's were 65, 66, 67, 68 and 1969.

Foreign aid to Israel, the first column on the left, reveals a total of $217 during the Kennedy administration and $481 during LBJ's years. This averages out at $72 million per year under JFK and $96 million per year under LBJ. This is an increase of 33%. Significant but not enough to sustain my argument.

However when you analyse the next column, under the heading military aid to Israel, a different picture emerges.

The total during the JFK years comes to $26.5, an average of about $9 million per year. This was his sale of Hawk antitank missiles to Israel in 1962/63, the first major arms sale to Israel. It was a defensive weapon. The combined total during the LBJ years was $219 million, an average of $44 million per year, a fivefold increase in military aid to Israel compared to the Kennedy years!

Another thing LBJ pioneered was the concept of Qualitative Military Edge (QME). This was the concept that US aid to Israel must try to ensure their ally has a qualitative edge on their regional neighbours.

http://www.meforum.org/1824/augmenting-i...itary-edge