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...rival Labor leader and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he still had a chance of reaching an alliance with religious parties...
American taxpayers have unwittingly been funding the process all along. Since 1967 when Israel first occupied the Arab territories, the United States has given Israel more than $45 billion in aid. This year alone, Israel is receiving more than $3 billion, almost one-half of all U.S. foreign aid, at a rate of almost $8 million a day. Aid to Israel has always been supported under the assumption that it was a moral imperative: Israel needed our tax dollars to promote democracy and to defend itself from hostile neighbors...
...more importantly, it expresses an understanding that American foreign policy must be readjusted to facilitate that goal. America must refuse to pay for an occupation which not only frustrates hopes of Palestinian nationalism, but also erodes Israeli democracy and encourages the growth of racism. For as long as Israel continues to deny fundamental rights to the non-Jewish population of the West Bank and Gaza, Americans cannot in good conscience claim that Israel is a democracy. Nor can we sit silently and continue to financially enable the human rights violations that America has so proudly attempted to eradicate the world...
Those who oppose Question 5 occasionally argue that a foreign policy issue has no business being on the Cambridge ballot. Of course, it does. The residents of Cambridge are very much involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The tax dollars of Cambridge residents, too, are given away to Israel each year. As American citizens, we, the people of Cambridge, have not only the right to express our opinion about the misuse of our tax dollars--we also have that responsibility. It is true that Israel, as an independent country, cannot be forced to cease its human rights violations. However...
...Base, America's biggest overseas bases. Unhappy with the annual $181 million the U.S. had been paying, Manila initially demanded $2.3 billion in yearly compensation. The U.S. countered with a first offer of $360 million but later added to the package. After signing the pact in Washington last week, Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus maintained that the U.S. had come close to meeting Manila's minimum demands in a "creative" three-part package that consists of $481 million a year in cash and direct assistance, as well as $355 million in "soft" loans and financial guarantees. The beauty part, according...