Senior US officials speaking in the Israeli press over the weekend warned the Netanyahu government against rejecting a proposed massive increase in military aid, saying the pledge was already the biggest single aid pledge by far and wasn’t going to get better.
Exact details of the offer still aren’t clear, but the US is expected to pledge in excess of $80 billion to Israel over the next 20 years, along with a one-off pledge of several more billion dollars in military subsidies as reparations for the Iran nuclear deal.
That this is a huge increase over the previous 20-year deal seems lost of Netanyahu, who based on some tensions with the White House has suggested that Israel might reject the “memorandum of understanding” until January of 2017 and try to get even more out of the next US president.
Major US candidates always campaign on being even more committed to Israel than their predecessors, but aid always dependably increases dramatically when the next 20-year plan comes up, meaning who happens to be president at any given time likely doesn’t matter.
If some how by some strange crises the USA should have some kind of financial problem How will they be able to come across with this foreign aid money ?
interest?
Easy, it will cut back on domestic spending before it reduces the ‘aid’ to Israel.
They’ll just let contaminated drinking water flow in other cities, because apartheid Israel comes first.
Anyone who think Israel is our ally is either naïve or dishonest.
U.S.S. LIBERTY, ENOUGH SAID.
Let them spurn the aid package. We should give them nothing, and their spurning the far-too-generous offer is a first step.
“reparations for the Iran nuclear deal”
This should be called “Zio-speak”, a version of Orwell’s doublespeak but defined as a lie whose only intent is to put more money into the pocket of the Zionists at the expense of the non-chosen. Other Zio-speak terms are “U.S. ally”, “only democracy in the ME” and “light unto the world”