The latest in a long line of Israeli officials railing about the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon talked up the idea that it posed a major threat to Israel, and meant the nation has to prepare a military option against Iran, as though Israel hasn’t been doing that for decades.
More importantly, Ya’alon become the first Israeli official to publicly talk about the actual end-game in all of this for Israel, a massive “compensation” package by the US government to Israel to placate them after the Iran deal.
It’s been widely reported in Israeli media since mid-May that this was going to happen, and the day of the deal’s announcement, President Obama is said to have tried to engage Netanyahu on the phone about coming to a specific price on the payoff, something Netanyahu spurned at the time.
Ya’alon indicated that Israel can’t engage in talks about the deal yet because they need to “study” the situation with Iran and calculate how much extra money they need to prepare a war against Iran in the future. He suggested the talks would resume in “several months.”
The talks before the deal reportedly had the figure around $3.6-$3.7 billion, and officials say they expect that figure to grow when the talks resume. The Netanyahu government is gambling on the idea that more intense lobbying against the deal will eventually for the US to up the offer.
Boy, this little crap hole Israel cost america a lot!!!
Compensate the hole with a good size Lebanese cucumber!
This is outrageous! Israel should be off from all U.S. aid, which means that the U.S. congress must be vilified in every possible outlet, day after day after day until the public begin to recognize the insufferable cowardice and corruption of our representatives. Our congressmen and senators will do anything, support any breach of International law by Israel, any murder or brutality that they commit, pay any price in American blood for Israel's sake and spend huge amounts of U.S. taxpayer money to support Israel and allow them to continue their theft of Palestinian land and water and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
they never lay down one life in any wars fought by the Americans. and this is Americas best ally?
Better idea. Cut them off completely until they shape up and get with our program. Then resume only if they make reasonable policy changes, like the settlements. Allowing this, spending billions to enable this, is just insane.
You're half right. Cut them off alright, and everyone else on the teat, but for good. And demand the settlements stop not as a condition of continued aid but as a condition that we won't bomb them into oblivion otherwise. Of course a laundry list of other demands would have to follow to address the other atrocities they get away with because of our cover.
Sanctioning Israel is long over due!!!
Israel has cut it's defense budget. Its economy is booming. Constant raids on the US Treasury have nothing to do with Israel's 'security'. Stop the racketeering. Whatever happened to,the American motto: "Millions for defense, but not a penny for tribute"? Fire the connivers, the Schumers, Boxers and their ilk those who think they are Knesset members. The South Carolina that produced Robert Goodloe Harper 200 years ago has vomited up Lindsey Graham today. The Iran deal promotes piece and, as such, justifies a severe cut in the flow of toil and sweat from American workers. Again: Millions for defense, but not a penny for tribute.
Give the truly detestable what they have coming.
Obama (unwisely) offered – Netanyahoo thumbed his nose…so phuk-u. Cut them off and see how long it takes them to crawl and beg forgiveness…and them slam the door in their face. Let the Israeli citizens and taxpayers fund their own defense/offense department – for a change. We're (the US taxpayer) tired of being the phukee.
Racist, Jim Crow, apartheid Israel ,with it's nuclear weapons and a society rooted in "chosen" racial supremacy and ethnic cleansing the "untermensch"for ever increasing "lebenstraum", should be subject to the same sanctions and censure that it is unjustly trying to impose on Iran. Invasions, bombing, assassinations, checkpoints, beatings, humiliations, open air concentration camps, Jews only roads, Jews only towns, Jews only laws…. It is impossible to find any country in the world is more repugnant and despicable than Israel. Of course this is only made possible by Israel's massive subversion of American democracy with it's huge lobbying groups, Israel first billionaires, and a massive and treasonous and fifth column. It is well that more and more Americans are becoming as aware as the the rest of the world already is.
By the sound of this, Israel (as distinct from its lunatic American supporters) does not actually oppose the deal with Iran. It's simply trying to use it as leverage to get money out of the US. Israel will fight the deal to the last dollar, so to speak! Not very honourable, but since when was politics honourable? Behind all this may lurk Israel's economic difficulties.
"…they need to “study” the situation with Iran and calculate how much extra money they need to prepare a war against Iran in the future."
(I suspect that the above assertion is Jason's conclusion extrapolated from his source for this piece. I agree, and my comment continues Jason's logic.)
So let me see if I got this right. The Israelis demand — !!!??? — billions from the United States taxpayer to prepare a war that we — the United States and the rest of the Civilized world — on their behalf, just managed to avoid by completing a long and difficult negotiation aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons that they weren't even seeking to acquire in the first place.
Call me crazy (not) but it looks like Israel is out to destroy Iran. And to do so without regard to any reality-based justifications. I suspect this commitment to Iran's destruction stems from the Zionists' determination to dominate the Mideast as the single regional hegemon. Clearly, Iran stands in the way of that ambition, and must therefore be destroyed. Insert justification here touting Iran as the obligatory “existential threat”.
Truth be told, Zionism — paranoid, ambitious, aggressive Zionism — is the real existential threat to Israel.
Appalling. Why are they trying so hard to conform to racial stereotypes? GIVE MONEY PLOX?!! One would imagine that Moses would call in a few godly airstrikes to get the flock back on track again.
You can't make this stuff up– are we living in some parallel universe? It's time for us to start demanding monetary compensation from the creepy grifters running the Israeli state.
It is time to call for the dissolution of the Jewish state on Palestinian land. The Israelis have no more 'right to exist' on Palestinian soil than did apartheid South Africa.
I say, scrap the deal with Iran and also remove all sanctions against Iran. If Israel wants to take on Iran, let them, but with no aid what so ever from Uncle Sam!
Oy vey, the chutzpah- Israel- you want I should have another heart attack? I read the headline and I could plotz at this schnorrer! Go away, you pisher Ya'alon 😛
It's not just the senseless waste of money on Israel (and the Palestinians, whose board and lodging the US has been paying for for 60 years.) There's also the way in which the US is wasting missiles and bombs to help Iran retain its hold on Iraq, while providing money and weapons which end up supporting the Islamic State in its efforts to take over Syria (and of course Iraq.) The obvious solution is to copy Raygun Ron's strategy in Lebanon. For some reason (I suspect Saudi oil money) he allowed himself to be sucked into sending marines to Lebanon. But after the disaster, sanity prevailed and he abandoned the place. After about 15 years or so, the locals got sick of trying to murder people who had the bad manners to shoot back, and settled things amongst themselves. I'd therefore suggest that the logical strategy is to simply abandon the Middle East, and leave the locals alone to kill each other in peace. It's sometimes pointed out that the Middle East has lots of oil that America needs, but the Germans learned how to make oil 90 years ago, and the South Africans make it to this day. The US has more than enough coal to do this. If you believe in global warming, instead of the latest theory, global cooling, you could build nukes to replace the fossil fuel used to generate electricity, and use that coal and gas to make the oil. Adding submarine reactors to the coal refineries to provide the power and hydrogen would double the output of oil per ton of coal, or in other words reduce the amount of CO2 emitted in making the oil to zero.
US doesn't depend on Middle East oil.
US has created this mess in 1947. Arabs were then not killing each other .
Iran doesn't need US benevolence . US screwed Iran in 1953. British did in 1907
Britain and Russia did in 1940
You think that Americas best intention for Middle East has been foiled by its own stupidity. That is not the case. America bad intention has been foiled by its own stupidity .
What happened to " start up nation"?
Every time there is an opportunity of getting some more food stamps ,it shows up on the door blaming how bad the system has become .
USG only friend in Middle East is Israel, Israel is the only and has been the USA-British war and forceful friends toward Arab nationals or any other nationals in Middle East, these regimes and the neo liberals in Europe including Angela Markell and that Swedish king are the newest political and economical friends of Israel doing the same as USG and British government-NATO been doing in last 60 years, providing helping, supporting cop de etas one after another, their newest work is a modernized version in terrorism when ISIS was created, financed by Saudis, supplied by Erdogan Turkish NATO regime, while by USG the Ukraine crisis was paid for, while Angela Markell, in economical terms wants for Germany to rule the Europe, not yet the booths of German Hitlerism but with the idea in Neo Fascism, a economic system ruling Europe with interest in ruling all Europe and if they could they are willing to start another war with Russia.
Europe doesn't have anything any longer offering to its own or people that are seeking asylum, from Sweden to Italy and other country in Europe, the economical hardships implanted by the English, Swedish, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and etc are a social economic tools designed by European capitalism to give more political power to the Neo fascism, is a tool guidelines the feature of Europe. The burocratical system in place that managing these austerities speaks the langue of Neo fascism.
After reading all your comments
I have come to conclude that israel is not a nation it is a sophisticated terrorist organization.