The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speeding to conclude the $4.2 billion Foreign Security Assistance Bill for the Middle East, lopped off, at least for this year, a $38 million water project for Jordan, reducing aid to that country to $60 million. At the same time, it cut the allocation to Syria by $15 million, reducing it from $60-$45 million. Those totals have been approved by the House.
The Senate committee also cut $6.1 million from the U.S. support mission in Sinai on the assumption that the mission will serve for only six months, not a full year beginning next Oct. 1 . The shorter time is based on the premise that Israel and Egypt will maintain the pace of Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai under the terms of their peace treaty.
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