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White House Favors Continued Military Aid for Israel


(Jerusalem Post) Janine Zacharia - The Bush administration has formally informed Israel it will request Congress to approve $2.16 billion in foreign military assistance for it as part of its fiscal year 2004 budget, a slight increase over the $2.1b. requested in 2003. The request follows a plan sketched out in the 1990s to boost military aid and phase out all economic assistance by 2008. In 2003, the U.S. asked Congress to approve $600 million in economic aid. The 2004 request should drop to $480m.
2002-11-22 00:00:00
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