Ronald L. Waldron

Final Report Ronald L. Waldron

Since American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, the Council for the National Interest, a Washington DC-based lobbying organization, is organizing a campaign to call on Congress to demand that Israel end human rights violations. America has given Israel a total of $135 billion, in direct aid, and over $12 billion given in loans. Although Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East ? with a nuclear arsenal of at least 200 warheads -- it maintains a policy of ambiguity on the issue, neither admitting nor denying that it does posses atomic arms. The distinction is important, because the costs 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. Some of these ?indirect? costs would include the costs to U. S. manufacturers of the Arab boycott, the costs to U. S. companies and consumers of the Arab oil embargo and consequent soaring oil prices as a result of U. S. support for Israel, and the costs of U. S. unilateral economic sanctions on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Furthermore, this does not include the costs of the invasion and occupation of Iraq?hundreds of billions of dollars, more than 4,100 U. S. and allied fatalities and untold tens of thousands of Iraqi fatalities( 1.2 Million )?which is widely believed in Washington and almost universally believed in the Arab world, to have been undertaken for the benefit of Israel. 2.3 Million Iraqi citizens displaced. What has blind support for the Zionists by the US administration brought for the American people? It is regrettable that for the US administration, the interests of these occupiers supersedes the interests of the American people. What have the Zionists done for the American people that the US administration considers itself obliged to blindly support these infamous aggressors? Is it not because they have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of the banking, financial, cultural and media sect