And see how that turned out? We didn't like any of those replacement regimes enough to help them much, and at present we're locked in warfare with one of those regimes because we think another one we shepherded into being in the past decade might do better. Still hoping that. It ain't cheap when dollars for such enterprises start to flow. How to stop them flowing remains a mystery to us all.

The USA since 2004 has given the following amount in all aid per person to Israel and to the Palestinians. To Israelis $2,429 per person. To the Palestinians $732 per person. The disparity in living standards between the two peoples is shocking and immense. And it is due to the oppression of the Palestinians by Israel without a scintilla of doubt. I can get the per capita income for the two groups from the CIA website if you would like or you can find it for yourself.

To make sure it is seen I will give the per capita income for Israel and for the Palestinian area (Gaza and West Bank) from the CIA website:

Israel: $29,500 per person
Palestinian area: $2,900 per person

or less that one tenth of that of Israel.

I googled your text in this long reply to ellerveira to see where you picked up this information. You have yet again, without attribution, cut and pasted an article that has already been cut and pasted into numerous neocon and hasbara sites. The point of these articles, however, do not even claim that Palestinians are the largest per capita recipients of US aid -- rather they maintain that these donations are larger then rest of the Palestinian economy.

Your assertion prefacing your plagiarized piece is totally incorrect. You dear marine, are a liar.

I have learned to pretty much ignore US Marine. He is not objective at all and his info is often just invented.

http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/07/top-ten-us-foreign-aid-recipients.html

"Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain.”

- John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"

I recall some twenty odd years ago reading a piece somewhere about a survey of US students’ finances in which, when asked to list their assets, many had included the limits on their credit cards. I thought at the time, how very different go public from their parents’ let alone grandparents’ attitudes to debt. Those students are presumably largely the generation in the thick of today’s financial morass. Perhaps those growing up in the uncertainties of today will revert to a more coherent set of principles. Of course, financial gurus say that would bring the card castle down; but they would, wouldn't they?