Secretary of State Rice has acknowledged a communique from Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Levni which requests that all foreign aid payments and loans from the United States be made in Euros rather than in Dollars. Foreign Minister Levni cited the rapidly declining dollar and it's disfavor as a world currency as reasons for the request.



"In the spirit of Yom Kippur, the United States will not hold Israel to any agreements obligating them to accept Dollars as payment for their foreigh aid. We will translate our obligations into Euros or whatever currency that best fits Israel's needs" Secretary RIce said in the Friday, Sept 21 announcement.

"We need to place our Israeli obligations at the top of our national prioriy list. Israel should not suffer any inconvenience due to currency fluctuations" said Rice before heading off to Camp David.

A similar request from Egypt was declined last week.

FYI - the Euro is now worth about 1.4 US Dollars.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3689

And of course the US Govt doesn't want to insult the US taxpayers by sending Israel anything but the best currency available!

Otherwise this trying to pawn off loads of second rate American dollars to Israel is going to hurt the pride and patriotism of all those Americans who work hard in low paying jobs and expressly to provide plane loads of cash so that Israel can maintain itself in the style and comfort its become accustomed to!

I'm doubly sure that the US Congress and Senate would agree that providing anything less than the best for Israel is tantamount to Treason!

University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, arrested with pipe bombs near a North Carolina Navy base, is going to have his defense paid for by Egypt.

TAMPA, Fla. - Egypt’s government is paying for the legal representation of a college student who authorities say was found with pipe bombs near a Navy base, an attorney said Wednesday.

Attorney John Fitzgibbons told a judge he was in talks with the Egyptian embassy in Washington and likely will be hired to represent suspended University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed.

Ahmed el-Qawassni, an official in Egypt’s foreign ministry, said the government is closely monitoring the case and confirmed that an attorney is being hired for Mohamed, who was born in Kuwait to Egyptian parents.

“We are responsible for the sons of Egypt abroad with no exception,” el-Qawassni said.

Mohamed, 24, and another USF student, Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, are charged with carrying explosive materials across state lines.

Mohamed also is charged with distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. Authorities allege he made an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.

Cease all funding to all foreign interests.

They all use our 'aid' to murder.

Since it's been hidden, here's the screenshot I took of the link in the OP a couple of days ago. Note the tags circled in red: SATIRE and GOTCHA.

To put it in words of short syllables, what that means is that the writer was *not* making a factual claim but expressing an opinion in what was apparently intended to be a humorous manner. S/he might also have been aiming to provoke readers to think about the nature of US officialdom's relationship with an Israeli political faction.

Now, the IMPORTANT thing, also in short syllables:

THE CLAIMS THAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE ARE THE ONES WHICH NEED THE CLOSEST SCRUTINY. The truth of an assertion has NO causal relationship with whether or not it suits your worldview.

Unfortunately the human brain is wired in the opposite manner; we tend instinctively to believe that which confirms our preconceptions and to reject that which falsifies them. This is not a characteristic exclusive to "left" or "right"- there are fabricated "quotes" from the Founders purporting to prove that the USA was founded as a Christian nation which date back over twenty years and are still circulating in the far right subculture. That tendency to confirmation bias is the very bread and butter of the paranoid conspiracy theory industry, which endlessly recycles discredited claims. Since most of us never learn the basics of logic, the use of evidence and critical thinking, it doesn't matter how many times a false claim is debunked- there will always be a fresh supply of rubes who, in the words of Honest John Barlow, "won't know enough to do any smart checking".

That, and not some pathetic ideological point-scoring game, is the real lesson stories like this one have to teach us.