US bribed Mubarak to support Israel

[Paxton25]

A political analyst says the United States paid massive aid to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to get his support for Israel in the cost of abandoning Palestinian human rights.

Israel is very connected to pretty much everything that goes on in the region in some way or another and is extremely connected to US policy in the Middle East, Alison Weir, Executive Director of If Americans Knew, told Press TV's US Desk on Saturday.

According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, US foreign assistance to Egypt has averaged just over $2 billion every year since 1979, when Egypt struck a peace treaty with Israel following the Camp David Peace Accords.

Every year, Mubarak has received $1.3 billion in form of military aid from the United States.

According to lists of arms sales notifications compiled by the Pentagon's Defense Security Assistance Agency, in the last decade alone, the Department of Defense has brokered over $11 billion in US arms offers to the Egyptian regime.

For the past 30 years, Egypt has, not only been a crucial US partner in the Middle East, but a linchpin in Washington's strategy for a future Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

PressTV - US bribed Mubarak to support Israel

 

[Suger is Sweet]

Definitely true. Add this to the billions American taxpayers are compelled to pay directly to Israel.

Why are we compelled to pay this heavy bill from Israel? What do Americans get out of it?

Nothing.

 

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Consider the alternatives.

 

[ACougar]

Consider the alternatives.

The alternative is a people getting to determine their own government, a fundamental human right. How much we like or dislike it runs a distant second to this liberty we should all support.

 

[brindisi]

A political analyst says the United States paid massive aid to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to get his support for Israel in the cost of abandoning Palestinian human rights.

Egypt was not bribed to do anything.

The peace agreement was signed by Egypt and Israel because it was in the interest of both parties. US aid has been made in order to draw Egypt close as an ally, thereby removing Soviet influence. It was a Cold War maneuver.

 

[Christos Anesti]

Press TV is an Iranian news agency owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Sometimes they have some interesting articles and reading them can give you insight from a different perspective that isn't often presented in our media but you do have to be carefully about putting your implicit trust in what you read there. At times it can be blatant propaganda.