With US-Israeli relations at their lowest level in years, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has announced Israel is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal to buy six V-22 Osprey warplanes from the United States.
Though the reasoning behind the decision has not been made public, there is considerable speculation that the cancellation is Ya’alon retaliating for his high-profile snubbing during a visit to Washington last week.
To the extent that officials are commenting at all, they are downplaying that, and saying they’re just reexamining their security needs right now after the summer Gaza War.
That seems unlikely, however, as such weapons are generally provided as part of the massive US military aid budget, and Israel is rarely too picky about its access to the high-end weaponry that the US is providing them.
Breaking up is hard to do.
Congress should deduct an amount equal to the purchase price from the US aid package to to Israel to remind the tin cup rattling Israelis: Beggars can't be choosers.
Now, give back the (welfare check) you got from the
US taxpayers this year.
Good, that will save US taxpayers a few hundred million.
Illusion of good —- hiding intent to do misery
Pure theatrics if you ask me, for the corporate rich hand pick most of the politicians in both USA and Israel, cherish the trading of war materials for Middle-East oil as their greatest money maker and the ongoing feud between Obama and a certain “chickenshit” politician is nothing more then an illusion of sincerity hiding a criminal intent to inflict misery for profit.
Good. Those planes were part of a package to enable an attack on Iran.
And right now, Israeli pilots- and ground troops- are breathing a sigh of relief that they won't be assigned to those deathtraps.
Lets hope this is the beginning of a US withdrawal from the terrorist state of Israel. They have never been an ally, or grateful for all of the protections given to them by the US. Let them go it alone and sink into the abyss where they belong.