Israeli officials finally agreed to a record-large $38 billion US aid package last week, in an effort to avoid politicizing the aid process within the US ahead of the November election. This, however, appears not to be working, as a group of Senate Republicans have introduced another bill aiming to dramatically modify the agreement.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC) insisted that this is a “very dramatic moment” in US-Israeli relations, and that Congress should get to be involved. Graham had been trying to convince Israel to reject Obama’s deal and negotiate with the Republican Congress instead.
This bill would give Israel another $1.5 billion in the first year of the ten-year deal, and would remove the part of the agreement in which Israel promises not to lobby for more money for the duration of the package. This suggests that such extra aid packages could become an annual affair.
The Senate had demanded Obama give Israel a record-large deal, which indeed he did, but Graham is now claiming he was “nickel and diming” Israel. While the bill aims to give Israel legal cover to accept the extra money despite promising not to, it remains to be seen if Israel will do so.
American people stand up against this madness by the group of traitors to our country. Strait out treason. AMERICANS FIRST.
Former Supreme Commander of NATO and U.S. Secretary of State Gen. Alexander Haig (deceased) described Israel as “the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require even one US soldier, cannot be sunk, is the most cost-effective and battle-tested, located in a region which is critical to vital US interests. If there would not be an Israel, the US would have to deploy real aircraft carriers, along with tens of thousands of US soldiers, which would cost tens of billions of dollars annually, dragging the US unnecessarily into local, regional and global conflicts.”[6]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/107007/us-aid-israel-why-its-must-david-meir-levi
If there were no Israel there would be no problems in the ME…and we would not have to deploy any military. Haig has never been correct in his entire life. Just a useless warmonger. Israel is there costing us billions each year and we still spend over $80 on ME wars that never end. What a bunch of bs.
Evidence that if there were no Israel, there would not have been a Lebanon Civil War, a war between Egypt & Yemen, a war between Yemen & Saudi Arabia, Iran-Iraq War, etc.
Here’s a list of lots more ME wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_conflicts_in_the_Middle_East
“If there were no Israel there would be no problems in the ME”
Also, it would rain whiskey and snow cotton candy and everyone would would get a free pony.
Your lack of understanding about how US support for Israel is astounding and the history of this failed relationship since 1948. Esp the influence that little nation has on our Congress and President and War Dept. No place in the world is perfect but wherever the US plants its boots things go for bad to worse.
When was the last time Israel permitted the USAF to use its bases? Even to-day with crap flying all over the middle East there are NO US air installations, army installations either, in the blessed land of ZOG.
Evidence that Israel refused?
My my, how did we ever ever survive without the pain the ass.
Could Graham be more a piece of slime if he tried?
Is this a trick question?
Graham should stop ‘nickel and diming” an American people in dire economic straits in order to lavish funds on an Israeli government that yearly reduces it’s commitment to defense via both expenditures and mandatory service. What does AIPAC have on this guy?
These seven senators must value ethnic cash over their constituents’ interests. Five of these politicians are up for reelection. What dolts, Foreign aid has always been an election day loser. Most voters have always preferred to keep the money at home.
Graham is now claiming he was “nickel and diming” Israel…
Graham is another of the empty-suit scum bags in Congress
on AIPAC’s payroll. This loser had already sold what little balls
he had to his Zionist puppet-masters, in exchange for his 30
pieces of silver, and personal guest pass at Jeffrey Epstein’s
‘Sex Slave’ pedophile island paradise.
“Washington has shown interest in Israeli help in possible air and sea battles with Soviet forces in the eastern Mediterranean. The growing strength of the Soviet Navy and declining political reliability of Premier Andreas Papandreou’s anti-American regime in Greece has increased the importance of Israeli cooperation in this vital area…. The Israeli Air Force has had extensive combat experience over the Mediterranean and could play a dominant role in the area south of Turkey and east of Crete. A U.S. Navy study [DML: not available to the public] reportedly has concluded that Israel’s Air Force alone could destroy the entire Soviet Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. By one estimate, Israel could launch 20 times as many air attack sorties as an aircraft carrier air wing or 12 times as many air combat sorties. Even if only 10 percent of the Israeli Air Force were committed to sea control missions, Israel could project more air power than could a U.S. carrier in the eastern Mediterranean (author’s emphasis). …. The small Israeli Navy, meanwhile, is a modern force comprised of fast missile boats that pack considerable punch. .… Even if Israel sits out a military conflict with the Soviet Union, Jerusalem could make a major difference in the outcome by permitting U.S. warplanes to use Israeli air bases.”
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/9275.pdf and cf. alsohttp://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1986/07/americas-security-stake…
Israel is the primary reason we have so many interventions in that part of the world…to protect them. We have intervened in far too many nations…costing us trillions…and thousands of US lives not to mention Hundreds of thousands of Arab lives and refugees. All this crap is making no one any more secure…but is costing us far far too much. Enough of this wasted money. Utter bs.
I know we intervened to help Kuwait,
but where have we intervened to protect Israel?
We went after IRaq (had noting to do with 9/11 to protect Israel. We support Israel in the 1967 war. Thats why we give them billions every year in military help to protect them from their neighbors. Congress is bought and sold by the Israeli lobby. No politician would think about opposing Israel. Thats why we are upping the amount now…If Israel was attacking today by a massive army would the US sit back…nope. And yet when Israel attacked our navy ship the Liberty no AMerican politician made it an issue and we lost 30 US sailors to their attack…as I said we are bought ….
“U.S. Navy study [DML: not available to the public] reportedly has concluded that Israel’s Air Force alone could destroy the entire Soviet Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean.”
“Soviets”? An older study I take it, or was it a typo?
And the Russians would just stand around with their thumb up their backsides for this?
Get real. Israeli nukes can’t reach Russia, but Russian nukes can — and would — obliterate Israel before the first Israeli plane took off on such an attack.
C’mon. Give the Israelis credit at the very least for knowing better than to commit suicide-by-Putin.
Israeli nukes can reach Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
I stand corrected. Though Israel would be obliterated just the same if they dared attack Russia.
When will the people of South Carolina wake up, and stop returning old “light in his loafers” to the senate.
It’s time to start slapping COMMERCIAL LIENS on traitors like Graham. He and the rest of the corporate fakers in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC took an oath to support the Constitution and that means to ” … promote the general welfare … “. How does giving Israel all that money every year promote the general welfare of the people in this country? How does this promote OUR welfare? By causing more war in the Middle East which creates a tidal wave of more war refugees?
These people in our corporate government are either insane or they just don’t give a damn about this country or THE OATH OF OFFICE they took (a contractual agreement between themselves and the people they swore to represent)! Time to hit them with COMMERCIAL LIENS … the election process doesn’t work for the welfare of we, the people; that should be obvious. lien.fomtl.com It must be done correctly or it can backfire: http://mind-trek.com/practicl/comliens.htm
Israel’s military research and development complex has pioneered many cutting-edge technologies that are transforming the face of modern war, including cyberweapons, unmanned vehicles (such as land robots and aerial drones), sensors and electronic warfare systems, and advanced defenses for military vehicles.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/friends-with-benefits-why-the-u.s.-israeli-alliance-is-good-for-america
Yup transforming the face of modern war…making the whole middle east unlivable…a total disaster for the people that live there…refugees fleeing their homes..cities destroyed…and trillions of US dollars flushed down the drain…destroying our economy and nation. Waste waste waste.
Arabs are killing Arabs.
Muslims are killing Muslims.
Don’t blame Israel
The Hutus committed genocide against the Tutsis using machetes.
If you take away modern weapons, people will kill each other with sticks & stones.
This cannot justify the subversion of the US govt.
And the Washington Institute is an AIPAC spinoff, and like AIPAC another agent of a foreign power.
“Treason never prospers. What’s the reason? For when treason prospers, none dare call it treason.”
All the aid we give Israel comes right back to the US stimulating our economy.
Horse hockey.
Nearly 50% of that aid is economic, not military:
http://www.wrmea.org/1997-december/the-cost-of-israel-to-u.s.-taxpayers-true-lies-about-u.s.-aid-to-israel.html
Furthermore, we don’t need an economy stimulated by war profiteering. We need one with long-term viability, one that won’t make us a persistent target of an ever-increasing number of hostile parties.
That’s the “advantage” of our alliance with Israel.
Exactly, Johnson. Much of the police state technology being used against Americans in the USA was developed and tested out on Palestinians by the Israeli government. This relationship is the ultimate in lose-lose. Only the military / police state industry benefits.
Hmm, and here I thought we had budget problems, apparently it just depends on who is asking.
He should wear an Israeli flag on his lapel instead of an American flag, and always wear the yarmulke. Does he only eat kosher food in the Senate cafeteria?
Illegal American Aid to Israel Breakdown https://theglobalinsight.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/illegal-american-aid-to-israel-breakdown/
How’s this work? America has so much excess cash that instead of giving the taxpayer a rollback, the GOP wants to give the break to Israel? Feckin’ A it’s a crucial moment Lindsay, and you’ve lost it
OK, so the Israelis made 700 modifications to the F-15, and you have posted this exact same comment 700 times now.
Curiously, none of the bazillion iterations of your comment mention that the Israelis passed on the sensitive US technologies built into the F-15 to the Chinese even though they agreed before receiving the planes to not do so.
Also curiously, all bazillion iterations of the comment put the word “Mossad” — which is in fact an actual word, not an acronym — in ALL CAPS. Why is that? Do you have any idea at all what the Mossad actually is, or do you just get paid per cut and paste?