Right now, the US gives Israel $3 billion in military aid annually, part of a package negotiated back in 2007. It was a 10-year package, and Israel is looking for a big bump for the next 10 years.
According to officials familiar with ongoing talks, the Netanyahu government wants $42-$45 billion over the 2018-2028 period, and that President Obama had already agreed to that level in principle.
That’s a 50% hike in aid, and that’s above and beyond the other military subsidies Congress is always slipping in bills. Israeli officials are also clear it doesn’t include the package they intend to demand on the Iran nuclear deal.
For awhile, there’s been talk of the State Department trying to negotiate a big one-off arms package for Israel in return for them stopping their lobbying against the Iran civilian nuclear deal. The “compensation components” are expected to include a number of F-35 warplanes and other equipment.
Israel’s government is said to be split on the timing and size of the Iran package demands, with the military hoping to make demands soon, and top foreign ministry officials believing that they should hold off for awhile in hopes of getting even more concessions from the US later.
Oh sure, why not give them 100 billion a year, what they heck, screw the American people, in DC it's always about israel all the time.
RickR30- oh, I'm sure there's a limit. Israel is a small country. Even after shipping a good part of that money back to the United States to pay for votes in Congress, it's a lot of money to stuff into such a small space. Besides which, in case no one has noticed, Israelis are all going to be rich because of the vast natural gas fields they've found off the coast of Gaza and Lebanon- uh, I mean, off the Israeli coast. So they won't need US money any more!
The Congress elected to serve 2015-2017 and the President elected to serve until 2017 cannot obligate future officials with mandated appropriations beyond their terms of offices. But the Constitution has not meant anything since at least from the late 1930s. And surely such a puny man made restraint such as the Constitution was not intended to apply to Yahweh's Chosen. As an American have you ever dreamed of a government that considered you to be a human – with needs and wants? Washington is not your answer.
Nothing like this is possible without a bought Congress. But then, given a bought Congress, it's not clear what is NOT possible!
Should welfare exist in our country to the extent that it does? Most honest Americans would say no. They would say less should be allocated and continuously gradually scaled back. Why then warfare welfare for Israel? Because most Christian Americans when it comes to that despotic pseudo- democracy don't want to handle the truth. Why? Because they are given a 24/7 denial serum intravenously. Vie the tag team effort of government, media and the Israel forever’s.
Every time an elected official stands before a crowd of his constituents blathering on and on about his moral duties, people in the crowd should start asking him/her WHY the American taxpayer should be giving Israel money that could and should be used to rebuild America as it crumbles down around us. Ask them WHY and don't let them throw a non-answer – make them answer – and if they refuse, well, ask them WHY they should be re-elected (because that's what they want when they go to the microphones) if they can't explain why they give away our money to people who couldn't give a ratsass about us and openly despise us.
In Empire USA, since 1776, the educated upper half of society has always hoarded all the land and wealth. So, the Israel issue is just a smokescreen to hide the fact, the reality that a greed driven voting majority enslaves us.
The zionists in the U.S. think they are being cleaver by corrupting U.S. politicians to increase the unnecessary welfare to the parasitic state of Israel. As their hubris and sense of power and entitlement grows the tipping point of the inevitable backlash grows nearer. The old ethnic biases will re-emerge. Sheldon Adelson is straight from the Hollywood casting of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. His "control" of the republican presidential candidates is done in the open, unlike the past backroom deals. The arrogant affront to a sitting U.S. president by Netanyahoo's speech to Congress was just a sign that the zionists are approaching their "jumping the shark" moment and the results won't be pretty.