c'mon israel only came into existence in 1948, on land that had been home to the 'palestinians' from when before popeye was a sailor! saying that the 'wars' were all the fault of the arabs might be technically true, but it just misses being logical (that a child caught stealing cookies is bad, even evil{?}and must be punished by lifetime on a chaingang also misses being logical)...Israel has never been served by out viciousness-ing the arabs, cuz too many of us see viciousness as disgraceful, especially if unecessary- history shows that Israel has been a terrible provacation, made worse by the constant glib media lying about it here in the west...AND remember rachel corey? i will not listen to any excuse for her pointless murder; israel kicked its own teeth out doing that one deed, imo (and believe me, i love israel and the Jewish people, but will not allow jackbboted thugs to have ANY say in the matter, NONE)
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World's Largest
Military Budgets:
($U.S. Billions)
United States 416.0
Russia* 65.0
China* 47.0
Japan 42.6
U.K. 38.4
France 29.5
Germany 24.9
Saudi Arabia 21.3
Italy 19.4
India 15.6
South Korea 14.1
Brazil* 10.7
Taiwan* 10.7
Israel 10.6
Spain 8.4
Australia 7.6
Canada 7.6
Netherlands 6.6
Turkey 5.8
Mexico 5.9
Kuwait* 3.9
Ukraine 5.0
Iran 4.8
Singapore 4.8
Sweden 4.5
Egypt* 4.4
Norway 3.8
Greece 3.5
Poland 3.5
Argentina* 3.3
U.A.E.* 3.1
Colombia* 2.9
Belgium 2.7
Pakistan* 2.6
Denmark 2.4
Vietnam 2.4
North Korea 2.1
Czech Republic 1.6
Iraq 1.4
Philippines 1.4
Portugal 1.3
Libya 1.2
Hungary 1.1
Syria 1.0
Cuba 0.8
Sudan 0.6
Yugoslavia 0.7
Luxembourg 0.2
Source:
www.cdi.org .
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