In addition to the billions in annual military aid the US already throws at Israel as a matter of course, the House of Representatives has added another $600 million in the pot, this time for missile defense subsidies.
Israel has several major missile defense systems, which by and large the IDF has decided are simply not cost effective. When such programs get defunded by Israel’s own government, the US seems eager to bankroll them.
The subsidies are part of the Qualitative Military Edge (QME) policy, which US hawks reiterated in the latest military spending bill as a pledge to “take all necessary steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent capability to remove existential threats to its security.” Ironically, many of the QME bumps to Israel aid come as a direct result of US weapons sales to other nations in the region.
The amount approved by Congress is over double the $270 million sought by the Missile Defense Agency for funding to Israel, and is in keeping with long-standing Congressional efforts to paint themselves as pro-Israel by giving them ridiculous amounts of money.
BILLIONS for Isreal – BUT NO MONEY FOR VA.
I bet Isreali veterens are treated MUCH better than US veterans..
WHOSE MONEY IS IT ANYWAY? Does the Isreali taxpayers fund America?
Yet the American Taxpayers LAVISH billiions into Isreali coffers.
From what I understand, retired Israeli officers are treated very well indeed. Of course, that is why they are Israeli – if and when being Israeli does not come also with a comfortable standard of living, then you will see the place emptied out of people heading back to the West for a higher standard of living. That is the essential problem for Israel – how do you deliver a Westernized income for Westernized people in a poor region of the World? It was a problem for all colonial empires. Hence, all of the aid from America and the dire results if it ever stops.
Hava nagila, baby!
Vampires will never pull their fangs out of a victims neck until they are drained completely of the last drop of blood.
Given israel's arsenal, just what exactly are their existential threats? The USA, Russia, and China combined? Aliens? Dr. Evil?
Israel's 'existential threat' is the past (the Holocaust, 2000 years of oppression, prejudice etc.) They are afraid that the past will come back to life to hunt them down and drag them back into it. They are even ready to destroy the entire planet (Samson Option) to escape from it.
please post a link where i can find out about this "2000 years of oppression."
there have been thousands of social/political/ethnic/religious groups that have been totally wiped out and not a record or memory of their existence remains.
on the other hand you have a group that has flourished all over the world, and now possess one of the top five largest nuclear arsenals.
It's in their literature, which they claim is history.
But didn't you know that what makes israel different from all the other people that have ever been? They have a "right to exist." No one else has that.
I wouldn't give them a cent. This is a crime!
Our schools are failing. Our roads, bridges and infrastructure are crumbling. Our veterans go homeless. Our country is all but insolvent. But whatever parasitical, brutal, racist, expansionist, grasping, manipulative, apartheid Israel needs, they get from a completely bought and paid for congress and US government. Our whorish government betrays our needs for those for Israel and her traitorous fifth column in the US continually. We, the American People, have got to put an end to this. Enough is enough!
Will someone please post the names of the traitors in the House of Mis-Representatives for all to see? It's time for the people of this country to say "NO MORE." It's high time for us to take care of our own and put America First, Second and Third.
ok. what's wrong with it?
Can someone explain to me why these traitors in the House of Representatives, who provide Israel with virtually unlimited funds "on demand" no less, keep getting reelected? Is there absolutely NO way to introduce term limits in our Congress? Is the American electorate so dense, misinformed, mentally constipated and preoccupied with mindless sports and inane TV shows, that they do not recognize what
these self-serving, corrupt vultures are doing to our country and our economic well being?
Our system is not working and needs to be overhauled starting today!
Qualitative edge? I think they have a head and shoulders qualitative edge over the Palestinians, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran, even if all 4 of these entities attacked Israel at the same time. How many 4th or 5th generation fighter aircraft do any of these political entities have? A big fat zero. My god doesn't Iran still have Nixon/Ford era F-4s in service? A total joke.
The supposed opressed are opressing go figure.
And the irony is that most recent VA hospital stays are by our American heroes maimed fighting wars for Israel. Absolutely inexcusable!
Give same money to Palestine and see what happens to the criminal sionist parking lot called isis-ra-el.