A new bill moving quickly through the House Armed Services Committee is set to add another $680 million to the billions in annual military aid the US government provides to Israel, with the funding earmarked for paying for more of the “Iron Dome” defensive missiles.
The “Iron Dome” system, a very short range defensive missile system, was initially defunded by the Israeli military in 2010 as too expensive and not very reliable. The US subsequently footed the entire bill to deploy the missiles in Israel, citing Iran as the justification even though the missiles are only designed to tackle very small, short-range rockets, and not the long-range missiles that would be in use in a war with Iran.
Pentagon officials are pushing the funding, saying the Iron Dome system was a great success in the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip, and “saved many lives.” Israeli officials reported that the system was almost entirely useless, and blamed a “malfunction” for the extremely low interception rate. Since the rockets it missed did little damage and killed no one, the claim of “many lives” saved seems an exaggeration.
But instead of taking the $200 million program as a “live and learn” failure, officials are now arguing that the $680 million escalation of the scheme would be a way to double down, and increase the coverage of the hugely expensive missiles in southern Israel, as they continued to find a way to shoot down the trivially cheap but mostly useless rockets that come out of Gaza during clashes.
In a word, bullsh*t! How about "Congress" boost aid to these United States of Amerika and 'we the people'.
Can't do that! There is not enough to go around and our new motto is " Israel first, always."
Why?
Just ask the boys in the back rooms
To do that, it's necessary for the US citizens to go out and force the government à la Égyptienne, and that is not small business. Ane even so, the outcome is not guaranteed.
When the hell will Knesset West–er, the U.S. Congress–start thinking of America's interests instead of Israel's?
Palestine is occupied by the Jewish state. Wiemar Germany was occupied economically and politically by excesses of its monied Jewish minority. America is similarly occupied right now. Our entire electoral system has been corrupted by Netanyahu's Israel, AIPAC, Israel Firsters and ingenious distribution of enormous amounts of Jewish money. Our representative democracy is nearly defeated and the destruction of America as we know it well underway. With both urgency and justice, the treasonous must be stopped. The Government of the United States must again serve American interests, not the Jewish state's grandiose aspirations of invulnerability and racist empire.
What the hell is going on here! As if they need a dime.
Watching these clowns at "work," it's surprising that the American public gives them even a 9% approval rating. NONE of them is worth a warm bucket of spit.
I want to start a USA movement of concerned tax payers who do not want to give one more nickel to the State of Israel as long as they continue to occupy Palestinian lands. We can start by withholding our federal taxes, even it means going to jail. The Zionists in our Congress will never vote for the benefit of Americans first and Israel second. How these people got elected is another matter but they certainly are not implementing the will of the Americans I know.
Do they ever pay for anything at all? The victim card – still playable, even after all these years…
Instead of investing more in the "Iron Dome" boondoggle, the US government should pay attention to the news: they'll get more reliable service from hookers in Cartagena.