Reports in the Israeli media, quoting Israeli officials familiar with the conversations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visiting Vice President Joe Biden suggest that the US VP has warned that the next aid package will be a significant increase over the previous one, but will be short of Israeli expectations.
The last deal saw the US giving Israel $3 billion annually over the course of a decade, with several one-off extra aid packages thrown in to subsidize Israeli wars and their costly missile defense schemes. Netanyahu was said to expect in excess of $5 billion annually in the new 10-year plan.
Exact figures aren’t being reported publicly, but the proposed US package is said to be meaningfully less than $5 billion, which is likely to add to the sense among Netanyahu’s government that the current administration is “anti-Israel” in some way.
Biden is trying to get Netanyahu to sign off on accepting the aid package, but getting the Israeli PM to accept $40+ billion in funding is harder than it sounds, and there is a sense among Israeli officials that if they hold out until after the election they can exact a much bigger amount from the next president elected.
The the exceptional nations, the world’s sole superpower need Bibi’s permission to lower the increase of his welfare check?
Why should it be larger than $0?
Not one penny. I know, dreaming.
We should be sending them a bill for supporting Israel when our support was morally and ethically immoral.
WASHINGTON POST — 16 ANTI-SANDERS PIECES IN 16 HOURS
(1) As Empire USA incarcerates 25% of all prisoners on earth, most all of the impoverished laboring-class and mostly for non violent crimes, Bernie could with an executive order free over half of them.
(2) Clinton is running for president of the Bush-Obama Administration, Sanders is running for something better.
(3) Sanders speaks the truth, so Washington Post calls it a “catchphrase.”
(4) Mental Health Patients to Washington Post: Don’t compare us to GOP candidates.
(5) Pro-war Clinton, she never had a more gentle and respectful opponent then Bernie.
(6) Washington Post Two Big Lies About the Global Economy: That because only the ruling elite have the intelligence to understand the global economy, only they should control it.
(7) The reasons why Bernie Sanders won all of his Democratic Debates, surely they are too numerous to mention.
(8) The deep south has an awkward moment with Bernie Sanders, as they think that the laboring-class should be kept impoverished for the purpose of economical slavery.
(9) Bernie Sanders says that the white upper-half of society does not realize that a ghetto is reserved for “white trash” and blacks.
(10) The Washington Post does not know that the upper-half of society owns 99% of guns as they own 99% of wealth. Well they, they should ask their rich ruling class owners.
(11) Our population is so fed up with the Washington Post and their ruling-class dictatorship, only Bernie Sanders would win against Trump.
(12) Only if Bernie was pro-war, could he be at peace with a war loving Hillary who overthrew the best governments that Honduras, Libya and Ukraine ever had.
(13) Ask the Washington Post and they will tell you, the banks to big to fail made $2 billion in political donation to Obama because they thought an Obama Administration would keep the big banks honest.
(14) Carpet bomber Ted Cruz, surely he has nothing in common with “CUT MILITRY SPENDING” Bernie.
(15) Washington Post refuses to talk about black people unless they can degrade the black community with labels like “assailant… gunman… felon…”
(16) The most anti-partisan and anti-establishment candidate for President, surely he is Bernie Sanders.
There should be no increase in aid to the apartheid state.
the Israelis are nothing short of parasites. Obama is the most pathetic character in this whole deal — he has some deep-seated need to be kicked in the butt and spat in the face. The sooner he is consigned to the dustbin of history, the better.