Congress pushed through the US-Israeli Strategic Partnership Act this week, a bill which creates a new class of special ally within the law called a “major strategic partner,” which only Israel will occupy.
Israel had officially been a “major non-NATO ally” since 1989, a position which included 15 nations in total and which entitles them to myriad benefits including priority delivery of arms purchases.
But with Ukraine, Georgia, and even Moldova being pushed as new “major non-NATO allies” the list was getting pretty watered down, so Congress has created a whole new class above that just for Israel.
The new class increases the amount of “emergency” US weaponry stashed in Israel, just months after Israel controversially raided that stockpile for the Gaza War, and provides guaranteed access to myriad other technologies.
Despite all it entitles Israel to, the bill is still considered “watered down” because it removed certain clauses seeking to grant Israeli visa-free travel rights without giving Americans reciprocal rights.
Sigh…
The monthly israel-love bill by israeli congresspeople. Don't they get tired of this bullcrap?
Our corrupt congress just does what its paymasters tell it to do.
Something tells me that Ros-Lehtinen, Boxer and some others would be happy to do this crap free of charge.
Isn´t this interesting, Israel becomes a major stategic partner, but as far as I know, still refuses to sign a mutual defense treaty with the USA.
That's because it would have to legally define its borders and it isn't done yet stealing Palestine.
Or, perhaps, also wants to leave open the option of sinking US ships?
I hope this garbage gets broadcast to the public- I'm pretty sure with so much anti-Israel sentiment on the rise, this sort of nonsense does not reflect the will of the people. Those who voted for this should be identified and called out at every opportunity.
It passed by unanimous voice vote. https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/sena… Interesting that they had to amend their own rules to do that, no one wanted to go "on the record", but the bill had 80 out of a possible 100 co-sponsors, so tracking down the guilty isn't hard. It's all of them.
Special kind of ally – yeah, the backstabbing kind…
So funny as it is illegal to even have a treaty with Israel under US law! It has no defined borders and as such there cannot be a treaty!
Our little puppet Israel — The American Foreign Legend
If our Empire was not in the business of trading war materials for oil, the need to terrorize the Middle-East for this purpose was not essential to our economy, in what way would such a partner in crime be an ally to us?
Our military base called Israel, our little puppet state that takes all the heat for the corruption orchestrated by our corporate rich, surely it should be called the American Foreign Legend and all the war materials we give it funded out of the defense budget.
…time for a signing statement.
Congress definitely drew ahead of the Pentagon in the race to be America's most easily identified corrupt body with this one–
Hmmmm. Maybe a good reason to not give them the war powers they want to take from Obama. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Israel is the Pimp, the U.S. Congress is their crack ho
The US govt is owned by the Zionists.
Would never have happened without AIPAC and the Kongress controlled and bought by them.
There is a simple solution to this problem. Pass an amendment to the constitution which declares two things: 1. All federal elections are to be publically funded; and 2. All federally elected officials can only serve two terms during their lifetime in any role, and cannot come back to work for the govt. as contractors, etc.
Once those two things are in place, the next step is to repeal the Federal Reserve Act and all its antecedents.
Antiwar progress in reverse. The reason why there is very little hope that the antiwar mentality is seeping into the average American's brain. We are the very few.
An alliance should be a mutual, two-way, deal.
This is a contract for indentured servitude.
No prizes for guessing who is the servant.
WTF, why don't they just annex the US to Israel and get it over with.
The Congress of the United States can't be serious, can it?
Israel, “special type of ally”?
Better than South Korea, Great Britain and others of the UN Nations that fought during the Korean war?
Better than South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Philippines and others that fought during the Vietnam war?
How about the Invasion of Grenada where the Organization of American States fought alongside U.S. military forces?
How about the Invasion of Panama where the Panamanian Opposition fought alongside U.S. military forces?
Better than Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and France during the Persian Gulf War? Oh, Israel's IDF wanted to engage in battle but Washington said, "No". How convenient.
More stupid wars followed: United Task Force verses United Somali Congress, Bosnian War of 1993, Kosovo War, Afghan and Iraq Wars after 9/11, Libyan Intervention in 2011 and lastly the latest military fiasco where the U.S. military is back in Iraq fighting ISIS/ISIL.
Many, many of the above sovereign nations shed or will continue to bleed their soldier’s blood along with United States military personnel in these historical and contemporary battles.
Where was Israel in all these conflicts, you know, America's ally, huh? Not one battalion, not one company, not one platoon, not one squad, not one soldier even as a token gesture of support from America's “special” ally. Not one loss of life from the IDF army for our country. Nothing.
The reality is the Israeli Defense Forces have NEVER fought alongside the U.S. armed forces in any military battle since they became a country in 1948. Not one drop of IDF blood has been shed for America.
But I’ll tell you what they are good at: killing Americans. Recall June 8, 1967 and the murder of 34 American sailors and Marines and the wounding of over 170 of U.S.S. Liberty personnel and the nearly sinking of the ship by Israeli torpedo boats and fighter aircraft dropping napalm on the deck of the severely damaged vessel. The shooting at defenseless sailors trying to escape in rubber rafts; a war crime in itself. How did that happen? Because the U.S. Congress and the Executive are controlled by the Zionist lobby in Washington with money, blood money.
We have in a U.S. federal prison one of their espionage agents, Jonathan Pollard who sold out the United States to the Soviets during the cold war and caused more damage to the security of our nation than any spy in American history. They’re nothing more than a gang of poltroons and cravens who think nothing of stabbing us in the back at every opportunity.
However Israel is great at slaughtering the defenseless and occupied people of Palestine, stealing their land, year after year, decade after decade. They are the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East and should not be supported but instead condemned by the American people.
"Better than Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and France during the Persian Gulf War? Oh, Israel's IDF wanted to engage in battle but Washington said, 'No.'"
That may not be true.
During the early part of the war, my unit provided security for a naval airport at Al Jubail. Almost all the fixed-wing aircraft flying in and out of there were transport/cargo craft, but there were a couple of F-15s.
I took lots of photos in the general area and when I took them to the PX to be developed, they came back with every one of the pictures of the F-15s taking off and landing blacked out. I mentioned this to someone at some point and was told that was because the two F-15s were Israeli — that they wanted their pilots to get in some sorties, but that it had to be kept under wraps or the Arab coalition partners would throw a fit.
I don't know if the story is true or not, but it seemed to make sense at the time.
Still makes sense.
US are the SUCKERS and the traitors are sitting on their comfy seats in DC!!
Israel is an "ally" of the USA like a tick is an ally on a dog.
Parasite. Nothing else. Stuck like a barnacle. Insult it, well, it still clings, and drains. No moral compass.
Every American could receive $30,000 a yr instead of illegally “giving” it to Israel to kill babies with (and that’s only the KNOWN money the US illegally “gives” Israel).
The illegal terrorist state of Israel is a “state” of and for the satanically possessed.
Interesting number. What makes you think that the US "gives" Israel $930 billion per year?