The info on Wikileaks that was released this week is bringing out all kinds of discussion about the contents. The Militarization of the Middleast is one big one on some sites.
President Obama is preparing his budget request for FY2012. It's expected to include a record-breaking $3.075 billion in military aid to Israel. And a 30 Billion in Military aid between 2009-2018.
"Israel understands U.S. policy intentions to arm moderate Arab states in the region to counter the Iranian threat, and prefers such sales originate from the United States instead of other countries like Russia or China
The Obama administration's record-breaking $60 billion sale of fighter planes and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia, announced just last month. (link)
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Did you know that there are likely more Christians in Egypt than the total population of Israel? Population for Israel is 7.5 million, of those, 5.7 are Jewish. Population figures for Egypt are less accurate, the government claims only 5-8% of their 80 million people are Christian while the Coptic Church estimates 10-20%. Even at 8% estimated by the Egyptian government that is 6.4 million Christians. I found this very surprising.
I didn't know that. Interesting. Though I have been hearing quite a bit about the muslim attacks on Christians in Iraq.
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