Recent U.S. military aid and arms sales to Iraq are fueling concern in Israel amid intelligence reports that Baghdad is increasingly allied with Iran and could pose some sort of a threat.
Over the next three years, Iraq is set to receive 36 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. – reportedly of “the same configuration” as F-16s Israel received from Lockheed – as part of an $85 billion rearmament plan for oil-rich Iraq that the Obama administration approved in 2011.
The U.S. spent almost a decade fighting an aggressive war and occupation in order to install a regime more to its liking in Iraq. That Israel is now afraid of Baghdad’s military is a monument to the failure of U.S. intervention in the region.
It’s not clear whether the Obama administration has taken heed of Israel’s concerns about Iraq’s military capacity, but Washington’s arms sales to Middle East allies like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and others has typically taken into account the blind, excessive American commitment to Israeli military superiority.
Rather than posing any threat to Israel, Washington’s military support to Iraq is meant to give the U.S. leverage on key issues like Iran, Syria, control and development of Iraqi oil, and broader influence in the region. The real concern is what it means for the citizens of Iraq to be arming the brutal, corrupt dictatorship to the teeth.
Israel is always afraid, should not be countries in region afraid of Israels undeclared arsenal of WMD and their latest state of art weapons?
"Over the next three years, Iraq is set to receive 36 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. – reportedly of “the same configuration” as F-16s Israel received from Lockheed – as part of an $85 billion rearmament plan for oil-rich Iraq that the Obama administration approved in 2011”.
Here is US interests in the world, beside stealing the peoples wealth by the Oil companies, the minority 1% – 5% people is happy to announce that they don't care who is in charge or named as president, they will sell their war machinery to any one who can pay, but off course, some senators and other "peoples paid staff" needs to prove the deal, but off course the president also needs to approve the deal.
SO more war is better then less war, more wars is more profitable then less war, more wars create more jobs where president or those who are in “political business” can say that their "job creation" rate is improving for now, then again less war is no god for creating jobs nor there is enough profit for 1% 5% which owns these “Job creating factory”. One more thing, these people are also involved in killing people, but thats another issue for another time.
And how are they paying for those planes? Let me guess…our own money? American foreign policy is a hodgepodge of external interests: israel and the weapons industry. I guess in some rare events those two could be incompatible. None of it of course has anything to with America's interests, but that expected, DC works for special interests, not for the people.
israel need not worry. Arabs and Muslims prefer to kill each other than someone else. The first victims of the F16 attacks will probably be Iraqis.
Quick, lets launch another war on Iraq so Israelis can sleep in peace.
The Israelis are trying to justify an immediate attack now before the Iraqis receive the planes and build up experience in using them.
Israel hates to attack a nation which can defend itself. The entire purpose of people like J. Pollard was to keep the US defense policy under control. What is a nation who only likes to attack old ladies and children going to do now that they might actually face an enemy with just out dated military equipment. Who would have figured this would happen when they got the usa to start the Iraq fiasco. Maybe they should hold off pushing the USA into more wars for their profit. Israel will miss the good old days of being able to use arab neighborhoods in Lebanon for bombing training.
Darn – looks like the US will have to bomb Iraq into the stone age again to appease Israel.
Our beloved “Military Industrial Complex” — In its finest hour
What Israel was created for and what the Palestine occupation is all about — the trading of Middle-East oil for war materials made in USA.
Israel is afraid of little girls with sticks and pebbles ! It's their psycho-warfare technique.
I'm sure another gift of several hundred million dollars will help to assuage their fears. They never tire of extorting cash from their American lickspittles.
"Israel seeks automatic US aid: Author"
Israel has requested USD 700 million from the United States for its Iron Dome missile system amongst other projects, saying it needs the funds to protect itself from missile bombardments.
Press TV has interviewed Ralph Schoenman, the author of the Hidden History of Zionism. from Berkeley who talks about Israel’s war preparations and US President Barack Obama’s needs to keep Tel Aviv satisfied to win the country’s upcoming election.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235001.html
What I fear the most is the total imbalance that now exists betweeen the US-armed Israeli military and those of the surrounding Arab countries. Israel has no qualms about entering another sovereign state and bombing anything that they deem suspicious. This flies in the face of all international laws. Until soverieignty means something to Israel, the Arab world should be looking to arm themselves against Zionist agression as best they can.
One must hope that Iraq is also getting arms from Russia, and China including anti-aircraft batteries. Should Israel attack, it would be wonderful to see IDF terrorists dropping from the sky in droves…
Israel is not afaid, it is their way of saying, if the Us SELLs weapons to any Arab country, the US must increase it's free support of Israel. Good lord, can't you see that?
Seeing that Israel was all for the Iraq war, I would say this is a case of getting exactly what you deserve. Before they had Iran and Iraq to balance each other off. Now they are allies against Israel. Oh, how Yahweh can be so cruel!
if the isrealis push this, they may find they didn't have as much influence in Washington as they thought and might find to their cost that they really are a junior partner in some much bigger fish's plans
Israel Afraid…ha that's all you needed to read to know more Arab blood would be spilled.
Even the most casually observing man or Martian can see Israel needs to be destroyed and those whining, barking dogs shut up forever.
I strongly recommend reading: 'Zionism,Militarism and the decline of American power' by James F. Petras. The Amazon Kindle version is US$ 11.05. (One reviewer commented: "Crawl to your nearest bookseller' and. 'If you cannot get it steal it'
Israel is afraid of everyone ..
they are the only bully ..
No Competition !!
anit war is a neo nazi site
Says the troll with jibberish for a name. Oh the irony.
Any jets that the us provides to iraq will have identifiers and overrides that the us will make available to israel. Knowing those override codes israel (or anyone else who knew them) would be able to easily evade their radars and waspons. Those jets would be sitting ducks as transponders on those planes, that can be activated by anyone who knows the codes, will "paint" the plane as a target for any missiles.
This is nothing more than a cover story.
Those US provided planes are nothing more than modern day trojan horses. I am surprised that iraq woud even accept them. Then again, Saudi Arabia has been accepting them for years!
I suspect that israel , just by turning a switch, can know at any moment where every jet provided by the us to an middle east country is located.
Ditto for tanks and any other significant piece of military equipment provided by the us to a middle eastern country.
The US has assured Israel that Israel will always have military superiority. The above is just one way in which that is implemented.
Here we go again! Israel should borrow tunnels in the dessert and go underground already and become the Morlocks that they're destined to be.