Thursday, November 27, 2003
Following on from this morning's story about Israel being short for a few bob, US cuts Israeli loan guarantees. Expect the usual suspects from Bush's team to claim this is them getting tough on Israel and be sure to note this is bollocks. They've cut $290 mil from a $9 bill package. The deduction was AGREED between the two sides beforehand ("How about we deduct a symbolic $300 million?" "No, too much." "$290 million?" "Oh, all right") and the Israelis are even saying themselves that "The fact is they aren't putting any political pressure on us to do anything on the substantive issues of the political process", so America still aren't taking seriously the task of bringing peace to the Middle East any other way than by Israel doing whatever it feels like to the Palestinians.
