Fact Checker: Have the Palestinians received 'more aid than any group in history'?
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow May 8 at 3:00 AM “There’s a lot of impatience with the Palestinian issue. ... People have been funding this thing for a long time. They’ve gotten more aid than any group of people in history, and what we have to show for it is really not much at this point, unfortunately.”
But notice that Kushner framed it publicly as “more aid than any group of people in history” and then narrows it down to just development and humanitarian aid in the past quarter-century when directly queried. That’s because when it comes to all aid, Israel has received more aid than the Palestinians, even on a per-capita basis, according to U.S. government data.
We should note that both data sets show other countries received more per capita in aid in 2017 than the Palestinians, such as Syria , Tonga and Kiribati . But Kushner was clearly speaking over a period of time — as he put it, “more aid than any group of people in history.” Now, let’s compare the Palestinians with the Israelis. We should note the OECD data is reported on a calendar year basis while U.S. foreign aid is reported on a fiscal year basis. U.S. foreign aid includes economic and military assistance, while the OECD data reflects financial support to improve health, infrastructure, governance and so forth.
To some extent, however, aid money is fungible. Every dollar Israel receives for its military means one more dollar it can spend on internal development. So ignoring U.S. military aid to Israel provides an incomplete picture.
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