Zionist Nationalist wrote:Israel isnt receiving any form of aid for its economy
the US gave Israel loans and many businessman invested in Israel but those are private people
That contributes to the GDP. Do you not know economics 101?
and before you post any further bullshit provide sources
For most of its existence, Israel has been the world's foremost recipient of aid. I quote The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation, by Shir Hever. One of his main theses in the book is that the Israeli economy is reliant on international aid to Palestine:
Much of the demand for Israeli consumer goods is funded directly by aid. The OPT is Israel's second largest export market (after the US), with exports worth US$ 2.3 billion in 2007 (ICBS, 2008a). Because Israeli trucks can usually cross the checkpoints on their way to supply Palestinian stores (or they can deliver their cargo in the back-to-back method5), Palestinians often find it easier to import from Israel than from a nearby Palestinian community. Israeli companies also supply goods (mostly food) to the international aid agencies to be supplied to the Palestinians. Because of the Paris Protocols, importing cheaper food from nearby countries could be even more expensive, because then the agencies would have to pay customs. Buying food from Israeli companies exempts the aid agencies from paying customs. Altogether, a UN worker has estimated that 45% of the aid to the OPT flows back to the Israeli market (Karmi, 2005). This estimate, however, must be taken with a pinch of salt, because without a central bank... It is more probable that this figure is a gross underestimation.
P.38:
Whenever Palestinians import goods using this foreign aid, they must either buy from Israeli companies or buy from international companies and pay customs to the Israeli government. Even when goods from Jordan or Egypt might be available at cheaper prices, Israeli administrative hurdles to the movement of goods and customs force Palestinians to buy the more expensive Israeli products.
p.39
Israel confiscates moneys that were due to the Palestinian Authority6 to pay for the costs of utilities, which sometiems are provided to the Palestinians at a higher cost than the price paid by Israelis for the same services (World Bank, 2004a; Rubinstein, 2004).
pages 29-34. Notes:
prior to the 2nd intifada Israel was receiving more humanitarian aid than Palestine OPT (p.29)
all aid to OPT goes through Israeli customs p.22
foreign aid to Israel is from: the US (mostly military aid), Jewish communities worldwide, compensation payments for the holocaust
US aid accumulating since 1949, "it consists of grants, loans (usually with preferred loan conditions), loan guarantees, and other forms of assistance (Clyde, 2002). Most of the aid comes in the form of military assistance, but Israel is the only country given a permit by the United States to use portions of the grant money to purchase military equipment from local industry (Yom, 2008)."
"If interest is added to the calculation, the total aid that Israel received from the US from 1973 to 2008 is over US$200 billion, about 3 times the current annual budget of the Israeli government." P.33
compensation from Germany an average of US $732 million annually p.33
"Israel was the biggest recipient of foreign aid in the world until 2003, when it was overtaken by Iraq. In 2005 it was also overtaken by Nigeria. What is most surprising is that Israel receives more per capita aid than the Palestinians, refuting the myth that Palestinians are the highest recipients of per capita aid." P.34
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