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**Lillie_Steins** · 02-08-2011, 12:35 PM

I'm not sure. Loan guarantees are still construed as 'aid' and for what it's worth, there's rarely a great deal of pressure to pay them back. So it winds up being a de facto aid program. I'd rather the US bought Israeli sovereign debt bond issues.

02-08-2011, 12:35 PM	#3
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	I'm not sure. Loan guarantees are still construed as 'aid' and for what it's worth, there's rarely a great deal of pressure to pay them back. So it winds up being a de facto aid program. I'd rather the US bought Israeli sovereign debt bond issues.
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