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Excerpt: "Burns said the new aid to Israel, which currently receives $2.4 billion in annual military grants, would not be conditioned on diplomatic progress or concessions though "one of the major priorities for our government ... will be to help push forward a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians."

The United States, Burns said, considers "this $30 billion in assistance to Israel to be an investment in peace, in long-term peace -- peace cannot be made without strength."

Israel overhauled its armed forces since suffering surprise setbacks in last year's war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas."

I nearly laid a golden egg after reading this bit. We are giving them 30billion with no diplomatic conditions or concessions?

I've always been a somewhat angry person, i dont know maybe my mother didnt hold me enough but this is killing me.

We should be selling military equipment to Israel not giving it to them. This is just more and more bad foriegn policy by Bush and his admin. No money, no aid to anyone rebuild New Orleans first then we can send some crumbs to starving children all over the world and sing cumbayya (or however you spell it).

So does this mean we will be sending 30 billion to Abbas? Or is this 30Billion an aid a down payment on the intended results of a Israeli military strike on Iran?