As reports continue to fly about the ever-worsening relationship between the Obama Administration and Israel’s Netanyahu government, it is business as usual for the nations’ defense establishments, which today reached an agreement on a $210 million arms deal.
The deal will involve the delivery of three C-130J “Super Hercules” airplanes, which were manufactured specifically for Israel. The actual contract will not be signed until April according to officials.
Israel’s air force will take delivery of the planes in 2013, but they won’t actually pay for them. The entire cost of them will be covered by the US as part of its annual military aid to Israel.
The deal is just a drop in the bucket compared to the upcoming F-35 warplane deal, which is estimated to be worth over $3 billion. Israel is not expected to see any F-35 deliveries until 2014.
I wish I could go to a car showroom and take possession of a luxury car and not actually have to pay for it.
The American taxpayer gets a raw deal again.
The drone could now replace the Statue of Liberty as the symbol of America – Distant, deadly and costly.
"The Dealer" furnishing its junkies with their drugs.
Our new moto…more, more, more.
USA AND ISRAEL PLAYING A GAME AND SPITING INTO THE WORLD EYES.
And this is why no funding cuts on Israel will be forth coming from the O's administration.
He may not like Israel and it standing in the way of his second nobel peace prize for solving the ME mess, but US Defense contractors like them and the $ is guaranteed. Congress likes them too not only because of the AIPAC $ but because of these contracts which keep constiutents in their home districts working, fat and happy.
The defense argument that the politicians must tax US citizens in order to give Israel military armaments which will keep our defense contractors developing more weapons. There happens to be a better way — SELL to a far larger market –the Asian, Arab and Persion nations. We will not have to give money to any of them in order to buy US drones, airplanes and weapons. After all, Israel uses the US technology to build and sell to these nations to which the US has promised the Israelis it will not sell weapons. US constituents can be kept workiing, fat and happy,
Don't kid yourselves! Admit it-}sreal is America's private run military base.
So what's wrong with updating the much needed arms supplies,those Arabs are getting wise :^/
You keep spouting this utterly nonsensical drivel. How does it benefit "America" to steal Arab land and perpetrate a genocidal ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population?
Maybe the problem is semantical? Please explain exactly what you mean by "America".
America = the elected Government, the non-elected governemnt, the Armed Forces, the Business community, McDonalds, Disney World, American Idol and Nelson_2008.
You want to answer for him? Then answer this too: How does the stealing of Arab land and genocidal ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population benefit any of the entities you mentioned?
We should give them one nutron bomb 800 feet over Tel-Aviv!
As much as I oppose violence and war, "all options must be kept on the table."
clearly these deals should be canceled pending israeli compliance with the US position on settlements
Won't happen, the Defense Industry would be up in arms and Congress would be up in arms. $ talks and the Israeli's $ is guaranteed. After all it used to be in your wallet.
The "Defense" "industry" doesn't need Israel. What's a couple billion a year compared to hundreds of billions? There will always be a supply of manufactured "enemies" lurking in the shadows, and we will always have a "need" for expensive, ever-more-intricate, and totally useless weapon systems.
I don't know what business you're in but one does not cut off a excellent, long time, repeat client with a GUARANTEED couple of Billion dollars portfolio.
The point of making money is to make more of it not less. Businesses NEED all the contracts they can get.
That portfolio is composed of our tax payer dollars. Almost every industry other that the war industry has been outsourced. What happens then, everything is falling into decrepitude, the infrastructure and the population. But who cares, the rich get richer.
Ok, the point apparently escapes you. They'll get the money (from the taxpayers and/or the Chinese suckers) anyway, with or without Israel.
I have tried to registrer a "thumb up" for radii's comments. However, it registered as a negative. All aid to Israel should be stopped — the US is borrowing the money given to Israel. The US taxpayers receive a slap in the face and subjugation to Israel's agressions for their sacrifices. This money should be used to reduce US debts. Please be aware that many comments are wiped out before they can be sent.
isn't that what it takes to drop a bunker buster,,,oo,speaking of which,just the other day i were/was just leaving the bunker and i noticed the smell of sulpher,OO,just now/live-?
Israel has no need of F-35s. F-16s are more than adequate for dropping cluster bombs and white phosphorus on the defenseless of Lebanon and Gaza. But how long after the first delivery will the the technology be transferred to the PRC? That ought to bring in a shekel or two..
We need to withdraw all support for racist, thuggish, apartheid Israel, and impose the same crippling sanctions they are so eager to place on Iran.
I've got an idea, we should write a book which states that God chose us as His people and promised us all the land in the western hemisphere, north of the tropic of cancer and we'll call ourselves the Liberites. Then 3000 years from now, our "descendants" can come back and claim the land from whoever happens to be living there, killing or threatening all the neighbors while they defy all treaties and agreements.
More free American arms to the MURDERERS in Israel – isn't that great for our public relations in the Arab world? Certainly there will be NO 'blowback' from the deal as Israel murders more Palestinians with our American supplied weapons – right? – you think?
This is so disgusting. China and Japan owns our debt and israhell owns our government. Antiwar.com also posted a story today from Harretz that reported nearly 300 US Congress members declare commitment to 'unbreakable' U.S.-Israel bond. Only three names were given in the report.
The BBC reported two IDF soldiers KIA and two wounded tonight in Gaza.
Yeah, Obama and Benny have a lover's tiff but that doesn't stop America from selling its arms all over the world or, in Israel's case, giving them to the racist State.
The American Eagle has three legs: one for walking on one side of the street, one leg for the middle of the street, and one for walking on the 'right' side of the street (where the capitalists and militarists are).
One day, America is going to get its legs in a tangle and the Eagle will fall in a heap and break its neck.