Heading to Washington for a high-profile visit next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is once again bringing a substantial wishlist of military gear. That was not wholly unexpected, as plans are to announce a $1 billion annual increase to the US aid budget to Israel. That may not be enough, however.
Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said the visit was going to see Netanyahu laying out what is necessary to “deter Iran,” and that it is going to cost America $4.5 billion annually. The current aid budget is around $3.1 billion, and the planned hike was to get it in the range of $4-$4.1 billion per year.
This hike in annual spending will be above and beyond the multi-billion dollar one-off military aid package the US is planning to give to Israel as “reparations” for the international nuclear deal with Iran. Israel is said to be trying to avoid talks on this aid until after the annual deal is finalized, likely to avoid asking for things they were going to get anyhow.
Despite being couched as about Iran, the annual increase is simply part of the endless march toward greater aid to Israel, with the latest 10-year aid package about to expire, a substantial increase was seen as virtually inevitable, and sure to secure considerable bipartisan support.
I wonder when this diseased, voracious tick israel will finally kill off its host.
"I've got dozens of friends, and the fun never ends, that is as long as I'm buying."
That's $1,000 in arms for each Palestinian in the occupied territories, and sooner or later Israel will deliver those arms ON the Palestinians.
Why does it seem like this jerk "visits" the US every other month?
Congresstraitors: "Here, take 6 billion, please. Come back soon! We love you!"
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." – Cong. Robert Goodloe Harper, 1798. Times have changed on Capitol Hill since when America was a free country.
Who cares what we do to you (ie: USS Liberty, Jonathan Pollard, etc.). We are the chosen one's and we demand that you give us what we want, no matter what it costs. Shouldn't be difficult to get. We control your Congress and get whatever we ask for.
They should get a reduction in military aid, not an increase. They really do run the US Government. Whatever Israel wants, Israel gets. The apartheid state can do no wrong. All voters want an increase in military aid to Israel, right? WRONG.
I've yet to figure out what it is exactly we get in return for all this free taxpayer money and materiel. Arrogance and attitude and general disrespect? Except when they come demanding more, of course.
Time to stop the foreign aid and military handouts. Let the Israelis run to someone else for the blind one-sided support they'd had from the US since 1948.
How can American tax payers legally disallow the use of their monies for international bribery? I want our bribes to Israel, Egypt, Jordan and who knows where to be stopped immediately.
I'd like to see a real listing of all we give them, direct and indirect. They exist as a leech, and hide that desperately.
Include not just aid, but loans, loan guarantees, tax breaks, including tax free status of donations and business done there, tax incentives, discount pricing, "used" sales, and allowing them to "borrow" things like the ammo we stock there. The tax incentive cost ought to include the industry we re-locate there with tax breaks, for co-production of our own military hardware, our own research done there because it is tax free, and to other countries for including 10% Israeli content. It is so massive, I wonder if anyone knows it all. Keep in mind that what is "given to the Palestinians" is just things that otherwise Israel would have to spend, like paying Israel for delivery of electricity to the occupation. The money going into "Palestine" feeds the Israeli civil economy, direct mainline from the US taxpayer.
The total runs into the trillions when you include damages on 9/11, the criminal war of aggression on Iraq, regime change in Libya, the destruction of Syria, and so many other "benefits" of the "special relationship".
There are no values that we should share with this brutal and repugnant country. These arms will go towards Israel's relentless expansion and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. If anything, we should be arming the Palestinians and helping them with advisors. A no fly zone over Gaza Ana the occupied territories would be great.
I'd give them 6 Billion in Worthless Fiat Dollars, then dump the Federal Reserve and Print a New US Dollar Backed by Silver. Give the Green light for Iran and Russia to start dropping their bombs. And Yes we now know who killed JF Kennedy.