Well..the extra 15 billion dollars..should go for medicine for the poor.
and if by chance there is any left over....
should go for medicine for the elderly.
And if that isn't enough....
All of it should.
I think we should give more money to Israel. $9B doesn't buy what it used to.
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Well..the extra 15 billion dollars..should go for medicine for the poor.
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"poor" in Israel? or poor of the world?
I just think the money would be well spent elsewhere.
Helping some starving people, providing medicines, preventing disease.
What would you do if you had 30 million/billion dollars to spend?
2000 Census reports 281,421,906 people living in the U.S.
Rounded = Two hundred eighty two million.
Estimated cost of war 80 billion.
80 billion. Not sure if I even know how to write that down. How many zero's is that?
80,000,000,000?
hmmm..
How much would that 80 billion dollars be divided among citizens? Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
What would you do if you had a billion dollars to spend? Even 30 million?
$9b in aid - still not enough, apparently, to some buy gas masks for ordinary civilians.
Palestinians ‘not given gas masks’, BBC, 20 March 2003
The Israeli army has not distributed gas masks to Palestinians in parts of the West Bank, despite a ruling by the Israeli High Court.
Around 60,000 Palestinians in the West Bank are under Israeli security and administrative control.
According to the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, Israel is obliged to give this equipment to people living in these areas.
The Israeli army says it is still assessing the situation and preparing to distribute protective kits, but is awaiting a final decision to go ahead.
Palestinians have criticised the decision, with cabinet minister Ghassan Khatib calling it racist and discriminatory. Israel had already distributed gas masks throughout Israel as aUS-led war on Iraq seemed imminent, ordering people to carry them at all times. Israelis have also been told to buy supplies and prepare sealed rooms in their homes.
During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Although the Israeli Government believes that there is only a small chance that Iraq will fire missiles this time, it says it must take precautions. Many people in Tel Aviv say they are so used to war that the extra threat has not made much difference to their lives. “This is not our war, we’ve been told the risk is almost non-existent,” Amir, a butcher in the city told French news agency AFP. “Some of us brought radios just in case, but it’s like following a football match.”
The Israeli army has now called up thousands of reservists. It says it is ready to use its anti-missile systems, developed with the US after the last Gulf War. It has two systems - the short-range Patriot and the longer-range Arrow, although BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the Arrow is so far untested in real combat situations.