Scheduled to arrive in Israel on Monday, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is warning Israel that they risk becoming more and more isolated if they don’t take moves to improve their diplomatic standing.
“The question you have to ask is: ‘Is it enough to maintain a military edge if you are isolating yourself in the diplomatic arena?'” Panetta asked, adding that the focus of his visit would be assuring Israel that the US would continue pouring massive military aid into the nation.
He said the goal was the assure Israel that there was room to “take risks for peace” with the Palestinian Authority, though there appears to be very little interest in the Israeli government to actually do so, and the government is said to be demanding major changes in the Quartet peace proposal.
Those changes will center on removing any mention of settlement freezes and would demand Quartet assurances that the Palestinian Authority would have to meet several conditions for the “talks without preconditions” to happen. Though the Palestinian Authority was unlikely to agree to additional talks without the freeze in the first place, the further demands seem aimed more at ensuring that the PA cannot possibly accept the Quartet deal than at getting better terms.
Until such time as we clean the israel-first traitors out of our government, politics, media, justice system, ….. the US will continue to be bled for the benefit of a foreign country. The DIRECT price of our "support" now exceeds $700,000 per Israeli – without even including things like "free trade" agreements that are a conduit for massive theft of American technology. The indirect price in terms of sacrificing our leadership in the world due to our blatant hypocrisy may be even greater.
Panetta is a patsy of the israel lobby (as is Obama).
Your figure of $700,000 is way too low. You are counting the arab citizens of israel who are considered cockroaches and they really do not benefit for the excess aids that our government provides. The 1/3 of the Population of Israel are orthodox whic are paid to read the bible and never required to hold a job.. Our congress gives trillions to the nation of Israel and then the elected official of Israel gives our elected offcials billions in return. Every gains except the SUA taxpayers.
If one were to look up "self-assisted national suicide" in a political dictionary, I'm sure the top entry would include a map of Israel (wait, Israel has no real 'map' since it refuses to define its own borders) and a description of the current Israeli government policies.
"A nation which refuses to maintain defined borders yet agitates for security, both at the expense of other nations, deserves neither borders nor security." – Me.
The UN in creating Zionist Israel, by this law condemned the world to a lawless state of anarchy.
LAW OF ANARCHY
(1) Land ownership is abolished as Israel has taken by force 90 percent of Palestine.
(2) Slavery is legal as Israel has all the indigenous natives of Palestine enslaved.
(3) War is legalized plunder, Israel plundered Palestine, USA plundered Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO now plunders Libya.
(4) Deadly force now rules the world.
The Israelis are not interested in sitting down to any "peace talks" until they have finished building (expanding) their settlements to the point where (they will say…) they can't undo the settlements and therefore must redraw the boundary lines to include the new settlements. If they stall long enough, as I believe they intend, the Palestinians will be able to lay claim to a couple of water holes (polluted, of course) somewhere out in the far reaches of the territories. The ploy is no longer subtle, as it used to be. And the USG knows what the Israelis are doing – which might explain why there has been little real impetus from Obama/Congress for the Israelis to get serious about the peace talks. And as it is with the 2 occupations currently underway, the American people are tired of hearing about it and really don't care anymore, if they ever did.
"…Panetta asked, adding that the focus of his visit would be assuring Israel that the US would continue pouring massive military aid into the nation."
And that's all that matters!
And just why does our defense secretary have to rush to israel?
A slave rushes to serve his master, lest he be punished. That's why.