Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today talked about ongoing negotiations with the US on a dramatic increase in military aid to his nation, insisting the $45 billion package is totally unrelated to the Iran nuclear deal.
Reports in recent days have suggested the enormous hike in the military aid will be coupled with a one-off set of arms shipments, which would be in return for Israel’s tacit silence on the deal.
Netanyahu insists that irrespective of how many billions of dollars he gets from the Obama Administration, he will remain publicly opposed to the civilian nuclear deal with Iran and continue to lobby against it.
Of course, the reports about buying Israel’s silence make this very much the point. Israel doesn’t want to be seen as ending its anti-Iran stance, but would in return tone down its private efforts to undermine the deal in the US Congress, which is the bigger obstacle than Netanyahu’s near-weekly speeches about Iran.
Obama is pathetic and a coward…yellow belly coward.
The administration can't seriously think that by paying Israel to shut up they actually will. There is no honor involved when dealing with Israel and no one should assume they will automatically become honorable overnight. Tain't gonna happen.
Of course the $45 Billion will be in addition to the amount that Nuttynihao will demand for his silence on the Iran deal.
Netanyahu means he wants, expects more. He will take all of this, and then he'll want more for that. It is his way. He gets away with it too.
Worse, he cheats each time. This time, he'll take a lot for not opposing a deal, and then he'll oppose it anyway.