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4 | Cooperation on Soft Security Challenges DURING THE COLD WAR,
compared to that of the United States (roughly $14.5 trillion GDP for a population of nearly 315 million). Yet Israel contributes disproportionately to the U.S. economy. Total two-way trade was over $37 billion in 2011 (with Israeli imports of U.S. goods accounting for some $14 billion of this total). This puts Israel in the same league as advanced European economic partners like Switzerland or Belgium— and way ahead of Spain, with a population six times as large as Israel’s. 9 Furthermore, Israel, with about 3 percent of the population of the Middle East, accounts for nearly 25 percent of U.S. exports to the region. And in five of the past seven years, U.S. exports to Israel surpassed exports to Saudi Arabia, which enjoys huge surpluses from high global oil How the United States Benefits from Its Alliance with Israel prices and has more than three times Israel’s population. 10 (Figs. 2a-d) The figures on Israeli investments in and loans to the U.S. economy, in both the public and private sectors, are similarly out of proportion to Israel’s relatively small size. In 2009, during the depth of the global recession, Israel was among the top twenty international direct investors in the United States, to the tune of just over $7 billion. 11 And as of early 2012, Israel had effectively loaned the U.S. government some $23 billion, in the form of U.S. Treasury bills—about as much official U.S. debt as held by a number of larger, traditional U.S. allies such as Spain, Italy, Australia, and the Netherlands. 12 U.S. EXPORTS TO ISRAEL (2011) U.S. EXPORTS TO SAUDI ARABIA (2011) 0.77 3.64 1.03 1.23 1.92 $ billion 6.13 U.S. IMPORTS FROM ISRAEL (2011) 0.97 2.11 3.62 6.77 $ billion 9.56 Miscellaneous manufactured commodities Computer and electronic products Transportation equipment Machinery, except electrical Chemicals All others Total: 14.72 billion Miscellaneous manufactured commodities Chemicals Computer & electronic products Machinery, except electrical All others Total: 23.03 billion 0.89 0.93 0.94 0.31 0.13 0.25 The WashingTon insTiTuTe for near easT Policy 31 4.42 2.64 $ billion 45.85 $ billion 4.95 Transportation equipment Machinery, except electrical Chemicals Computer & electronic products All others Total: 13.82 billion U.S. IMPORTS FROM SAUDI ARABIA (2011) Oil & gas Chemicals Petroleum & coal products Primary metal mfg All others Total: 47.48 billion
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