More American aid to Israel

An American report submitted to the US Congress said that the government of the US President George Bush allotted during the current fiscal year a sum of USD 2.6 billion as military aid for Israel, USD 720 million as economic aids and USD 600 million to settle the new Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories.

According to Monte Carlo radio, the report said that since 1983 the US has deals with Israel in various military areas, besides the US takes part with Israel in military maneuvers, and developing new weapons.

The report indicated that the US ensured for Israel a sum of USD 625 million to develop and use anti- missile "Arow missiles"; USD 1.3 billion to produce Lavy plane and USD 200 million for Meirkava tanks, while a sum of USD 130 million will be allocated to achieving an anti- missile Laser network system.

The report also said that the US is Israel's first partner in the economic field besides that the volume of trade exchange in 2000 reached USD 20.8 billion.