According to reports in the Israeli press, planned talks between Israel and the US on a one-time, multi-billion dollar military aid package in “compensation” for US approval of the Iran nuclear deal remain on hold, with focus on a planned increase in annual military aid to Israel.
The US currently sends Israel $3.1 billion annually in military aid, and the increase is expected to bump this up by roughly another billion dollars. Such plans tend toward 20-year timeframes, meaning the spending will add up to $20 billion more.
US military aid by and large isn’t cash, but rather credits used to purchase weapons from certain well-connected US arms makers, meaning the aid program amounts to a subsidy for both the Israeli military and for major US manufacturers.
Israeli DM Moshe Ya’alon is expected to visit the US next week for discussions on this aid hike, with expectations that a final deal on the bump would be announced during an upcoming visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It is against our (USA) la to sell weapons to nations with a history of human rights violations.
Our position (USA) On israeli squrtements are they are illegal. that makes Israel guilty of human rights violations.
Our Government should make policy based on our laws. Failure to do that has resulted in the condition the mid east is in today.
Oh sure, but there's not money for social security COLA. Traitors all who approve this.
The time is long past for cutting off all military aid to Israel. It is beyond outrageous to be giving more arms to Israel, after the decades of Israel's illegal land theft from and abuse of Palestinians which we all have witnessed.
Not one more cent for Israhell. Let your congressman know you and everyone you know or can tell will oppose their reelection. How do the same morons win time after time? It must be rigged.
Nothing we voters can do about it. Whatever Israel wants, Israel gets.
The military aid is much more than we say. We "charge them" against our aid at very low prices, compared to what other nations actually pay. We also give them free use of "our" spare parts, ammo, and fuel, which are a huge cost in the package prices we quote to other nations. Often, we give them things at knocked down "used" prices, then pay for the same thing again new for ourselves.
There are so many lies buried in our aid to Israel that I doubt anybody actually knows how much we give them, directly and indirectly. For another example, their proud tech industry is really our industry, which locates there because it is tax free to do US tech work there that would otherwise be done here. For yet another, we give Egypt freedom from import duties to the US, on condition they have 10% Israeli content.
When will we end this? THEY OWN US!
Israeli industry got its start, from American industry setting up pilot plants there and the business getting shifted there by CEOs and other administration folks in the American industry who wanted to help out their relatives over in Israel. I remember that back in the 1960s a New York aerospace firm AIL, pioneering technology transfer to the Israel. The military use of video tracking was invented here but is now an Israeli specialty. Same story in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. It all comes from people who are more loyal to Israel than to the USA.
This is the most shameful, cowardly, craven act of abasement in American history. Obama and the entire U.S. congress will go down in history traitors who have disgraced their nation and brought everlasting shame on their names and on their families.
send them food stamps redeemable in IRAN