The helps and services provided by the US for Israel (1)

Since the era of Theodore Herzl to the time of Ben-Gurion, the Zionist leaders constantly saw that they were in need of a strong government that puts them under its own auspices.
Before World War II, Zionism was taking advantage of the countless blessings of Great Britain backed step by step to achieve their goals and objectives. Since then, the United States replaced Britain due to the new circumstances.
This replacement was done for several reasons:
1. The presence of four million Jewish immigrants in America.
2. The growth and increase in the influence of the Zionist Jews in economic areas and also the mass media in the United States.
3- The growth in the conservative evangelical church movement which, by providing a political interpretation of the prophecies of the Old Testament, had formed a bond and relationship between the reappearance of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel. This was one of the major causes of the Christian Zionist movement.
4. Supplying the interests and welfare of the United States in the Middle East.
In this regard, the policies and interests of the United States of America and Israel depended so much on each other and were so intertwined that Jerry Falwell who was one of the precursors and advocates of the Christian Zionist movement openly declared that:
The Lord will surely protect the United States of America, because the United States supports Israel.
From the very beginning, the Zionists knew that in the US, the American Congress holds the key to the reservoirs of the country and if they made an effort to persuade the members of the Congress, then they could provide the context and the grounds for receiving the largest aids for Israel.
On the one hand, appeal to the members of the Congress required the reasons and justifications that were necessary for the matter and, on the other hand, it required a great deal of organized and systematic action.
The Jews in America, with an emphasis on human motivations and emotions, were first calling for the congressional approval of the state of Israel, but soon they realized that this tactic will not be very effective in the long term. Thus, after the 1967 war in the Middle East, they changed their style of describing this war and made a legendary case of this war and likened the Israeli army and troops to that of David in the new era.
During the next steps, these justifications found more consistency and were more mature. To convince the members of the US Congress, they insisted on the matter that Israel could be a strong ally of the United States of America and an obstacle against the Soviet Union and the influence of the Arab Extremist organizations in the regions of the Middle East due to its military victories and a well-trained army. On the other hand, this regime can protect the oil wells and the areas in the Persian Gulf in favor of the United States and can provide a reliable source of intelligence from this region.
Since the beginning of the Zionist regime, this regime has always been able to maintain its existence by the generous and successive economic assistance coming from the United States.
The dependence of Israel on the comprehensive support of the United States is so fundamental and vital for this regime that the economic experts and the political observers of the West emphasize that if the support of the United States of America to Israel should stop and the United States stops supporting the regime, the fate of Israel is nothing but bankruptcy and destruction.
A brief overview of the official aid received by Israel from the United States since its being founded and the rise it has experienced can reveal some aspects of this case to some degree.
The unreturned donations of the Americans to Israel in the fifties (1950-1959) was about four billion and 35 million (000/000/035/4) dollars.
In addition to the tax reduction and the refund of the received tariffs from the Jews to their own effects as well as the aid collected and donated by and pro-Israeli American associations and organizations to the benefit of the regime, during this time, the expenditures of the United States has amounted to $ 369 million as loan and 35 million, ten million dollars in technical assistance and scientific equipment to the regime and it has also paid $ 95 million in investment.
On the other hand, Mr. Pinhas Sapir, the former finance minister of Israel, at the 'Conference on Jewish millionaires which was held in Jerusalem in the ninth and tenth of August 1967, revealed that during the years 1949- 1966, Israel has received seven billion dollars (The text of the speech given by Sapir in Israel is published in the Economist magazine dated September 1967, Volume 23, Number 9).
To assess this figure, it is sufficient to note that, according to the Marshall Plan, the assistance provided to all the countries of Western Europe in the years from 1948- 1954 was only thirteen billion dollars; this means the Israeli government and of course at a time which was longer, and also at a time when it had a population less than two million people, has received more help than half of what had been received as help by two hundred million Europeans. In other words, what the Israelis had received annually has been one hundred times more than what the Europeans had received.
Richard Curtis, who is a retired expert and a former official from the United States Department of State, says in a report:
During 46 years, from 1949 to 1995, the taxpayers in the United States of America have paid the amount of 5/62 billions of dollars to Israel. In other words, our financial aid to one of the smallest states of the world, that has a population smaller than the population of Honk Kong, has been equal to the total aid provided for the sub-Saharan countries of Africa and Latin America and the nations of the Caribbean Sea. Furthermore, the economic aid per capita per one resident of this country is about forty dollars, but for the people of Israel it has been 10.775 dollars!
Curtis adds:
The amount which is mentioned includes only the official foreign aid ... but other than that, there is a huge amount of aid that is never reported and the tables showing the financial aids of the United States and the foreign assistance to countries.
... If these additional gifts, donations, and funds from America to Israel are added to the aids provided by some government agencies, if this is added later to the previous amounts, then, we have paid over $ 83 billion dollars which means each year for every Israeli citizen, we have paid 14 thousand dollars.
Needless to say, the above assistance has been provided continuously on condition that the area is in a relatively calm and normal situation; but if the situation becomes tense and critical in the region and something threatens the Israel's existence and security, then, the aids of States United also exit the normal routine and takes on a different situation. For example, after the Six Day War (June 1967), Israel took advantage of the American military aid to the amount of two billion dollars a year so that it can maintain its military superiority over the Arabic countries.
During the same war, while the flood of different weapons was flowing into Israel, the Israeli Radio announced that 1,500 American-Israeli volunteers are on their way to Israel to mend those tractors and agricultural machinery whose drivers have been sent to war front.
It was later known that these volunteers are the American and British pilots and military expert affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). They came to serve in the Israeli Air Force. The Zionist Regime paid each one of them a monthly salary about 10 thousand dollars.
Two weeks after the Six-Day War, the Israeli finance minister announced that between the years 1949- 1966, the larger collections in the form of financial aid that was received by the regime was more than seven billion dollars.
George Chorem that is one of the foremost experts in the Israeli financial policy describes and analyzes the Israeli economy assistance as such in his book “The Economy of Israel”. (The figures are in million dollars):
1. The assistance form the Zionist organizations of the world, especially the United States of America 1500
2. The United States Government unreturned grants 315
3. Compensation paid by the West Germany government (10) 1875
4. Loans and investments in 2500
5. Assistance provided by certain individuals to Israel, 835
Total 7025
After the 1973 war between Egypt and Israel and the ceasefire which was maintained in the region, the United States of America, in 1975, signed a treaty with Israel and vowed to supply the oil resources and military equipment required by this regime and also vowed to use the veto right against any resolution issued by the Security Council against Israel.
In this treaty, the Unites States of America is committed to the Israel's security and has vowed to resist any possible violation of any of the provisions of the ceasefire agreement by Egypt along with the Israeli government.
On the other hand, in 1979, after signing the peace treaty with Egypt, in exchange for the evacuation of two air bases by Israel in Sinai, the United States was committed to take over the building of two air bases in the Negev desert for this regime.
Israel enjoys the rights and privileges in the United States in international relations and institutions which is not considered normal.
During the Israeli military invasion in 1982 to south Lebanon, the hordes of tanks and armored personnel carriers were under the command of Ariel Sharon and this led to the killing and wounding of two hundred thousand Lebanese and Palestinians, who were mostly civilians, and many of the US forces fought alongside the Israeli army dressed as Israeli soldiers.
Israel Shahak, the Jewish writer says: "Israel is the only state in the world that American citizens can obtain a license from the government of America, as a volunteer, to serve in the Israeli army.
Under President Clinton, these aids took a new form and in addition to the ongoing funding, equipping and strengthening the Zionist regime was also considered. On the thirteenth of April 1994, Frederick Smith, the assistant secretary of defense in the United States, in a report to the US Congress, explained about the country's last major contributions and gifts to Israel.
Smith said: the Clinton’s administration had decided on giving annually 25 F-15 I warplanes and provide more advanced military equipment worth two billion and four hundred million dollars ... he said that this aid is given to provide the political interests and the national security of the United States.
Smith added that these war plane with the highest technology and the ability to fly in any weather conditions give this the possibility to Israel to aim targets with a depth of 1500 km.
He said Israel hoped to achieve these two aircrafts, but the US Department of Defense decided to increase this number of the warplanes to 25 because of concerns caused by the war in the Middle East.
Smith also announced that Israel in the near future, without going through any economic pressure, will receive fifty combat aircrafts of the type Falcon (F-16) from Washington.
In describing the above sentence he has said: The American Department of Defense has assigned to each of these planes a very low price and wants to sell each of the fighter jets only for five million dollars to Israel, while each of these fighter jets have been sold for about forty million dollars per aircraft sold to Turkey and that is the total cost of making each of the aircrafts.
Smith continues in his report that:
The commitment of the United States of America to Israel's security has been since long ago, the solid foundation of our policy towards the Middle East and is the premier technology transfer has been another vital element in our ongoing commitment to excellence and our commitment to Israel and we fulfill such a commitment by modernizing and selling weapons to Israel and also with mass research and assistance provided.
The authors of the book which is called “The strategic estimate” based on official sources declared in the US have released a relatively detailed table, which is broken down by the year and type of aid (military, economic / loans, grants) and have tried to show that within fifty years, between 1949- 1999 Israel has received approximately eighty billion dollars in aid from the United States of America and about $ 53 billion and 474 million of that loan was granted unreturned.
Senator Robert Byrd, the former leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, in early 1992, for the first time, revealed some of the least known details of the United States aids and assistance to Israel unveiled.
Paul Findley who has mentioned some parts of the revealed facts, quoted him and said:
... In 1985 to deal with the economic crisis in Israel, all the military and economic aid supplied to Israel which were apparently in loans were later turned into unreturned grants to help Israel and by passing a supplementary help amounting to 1.5 billion dollars, the total of grants in 1985 reached the 4.1 billion dollars in aid.
Baird says:
Unlike other countries that receive military aid from the United States, Israel does not have all the funds received which are spent on military items. (18)
Paul Findley wrote in explaining how the aids are given:
"For many years, Israel has paid the debts arising from the loans to grants received by the US through the Treasury of the United States. Since 1985, the America aid to Israel are in the form of unreturned grants, and this means that even a cent of this aid has not been repaid. Paying the interest and the principal on loans which were received before 1985 were in fact done by the money obtained from the tax revenues. This strange method was enacted in 1982 by the proposal of the Democratic Senator Alan Cranston as a resolution. This measure, which was later called and became known the "Cranston Amendment" stipulates that economic assistance to Israel every year must be equal to the repayment of Israel (the genuine amount of the loan and the interest). As a result of this amendment, Israel is always guaranteed to perform its financial obligations to America and will receive the necessary help.
James Baker, the Secretary of State at that time, when testifying before the Senate, while he was playing with words, said that:
The Cranston Amendment has made it possible for us to be always able to pay the Israeli debt by the sum that we have allocated for this purpose in the country.
In fact, Congress has always put its money over the obligations of Israel and no other country in the world has had such an advantage.
A fixed and immutable principle in the current policies of the United States is that Israel should be fundamentally strengthened and the economic aid to the regime must continue.
Paul Findley wrote:
Even if a considerable part of the annual American budget has to be reduced and limited in its scope, still the special assistance to Israel will increase year by year.