Whatever the size of the next US military aid deal to Israel, a 10-year package to cover 2019-2028, Israel will still be the largest recipient of US funding, and it will still be the largest package they’ve ever gotten. That said, Israel is increasingly realizing they could’ve gotten more.
During the period around the signing of the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama Administration was desperate for some sign of acceptance from the Netanyahu government, and was offering huge deals. Netanyahu, irked by the Iran diplomacy, refused to even talk, insisting he wanted to wait until Obama was out of office.
It’s a mistake analysts say is coming back to haunt him. Israeli expectations for $50 billion over the next decade are now far out of the realm of reality, and even their reduced demands for $40 billion are looking a bit tough to realize, with Israel seen to be in a much weaker bargaining position.
There are multiple reasons for that, but the main one is the realization that waiting for a post-Obama deal, after eight years of acrimony between Netanyahu and the US president, could well further cement Israel as a partisan issue in the eyes of many Americans, particularly if Netanyahu makes a deal in 2017 with a Republican.
That’s got Netanyahu convinced he needs to make the deal ASAP, but mid-way through 2016, the clock is ticking, and the Obama Administration has more leverage to keep the deal smaller.
There was intense debate around the time of the Iran deal between the Israeli Defense and Finance Ministries on the matter, with many in the military arguing they’d be better off getting what they could as soon as they could. Instead, Israel waited, and instead of replacing a $30 billion deal with a $50 billion, they may get an increase of less than half that.
Im american. Not israeli. My tax money should never be used to support any crime. Israeli squatterments are in violation of onternational law.
30-50 billion could do a lot of good if spent here in the US.
No kidding. They should get zilch!
It won’t be spent here. It will be given as a tax break for the rich.
That would still be better than giving it to Israel.
How about we insist Israel pay back the God knows how many billions of dollars we the American taxpayer have been unknowingly handing over to them?
Unknowingly? Hardly…it’s never been a secret.
Very unknowingly. Until quite recently the mainstream media never, ever discussed this. And now some Americans know about this but the vast majority are still uninformed (misinformed).
I’ve known about it for years.
some don’t know where canada is
Yes. Kids under the age of six, people with mental problems, and a few others do not know where Canada is. The vast majority of Americans do not know we are giving billions upon billions of their dollars to Israel every year. There has been a long time effort to keep this information away from the public; I am pretty sure that nobody is hiding the whereabouts of Canada from Americans.
Evidence of a long time effort to keep this information away from the public?
Show me one mainstream media account prior to 2008 that mentions the massive US aid package to Israel. Just one. The aid had been going on for four decades by then
I’m proud of my country, the USA, for helping countries like Israel that are the victims of aggression.
aggression?? its self made
Self-made?
Israel clearly is the aggressor. You are amazingly misinformed…probably think the mainstream media tells the truth.
Reduce aid to the apartheid state, not increase it
Reduce? No, terminate.
Israel is not apartheid.
Where are the separate water fountains & bathrooms?
Why are there Arabs in Israel’s parliament & on Israel’s supreme court?
Neither was the Old South segregated. And the old Union of South Africa was a colorblind society. —(as long as we are making ridiculous statements).
Evidence that Israel has segregated water fountains & bathrooms?
Evidence that there are no Arabs in Israel’s parliament?
Evidence that there is no Arab on Israel’s supreme court?
Here’s a link to the names of Arab members of Israel’s parliament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset
No aid for the Zionist entity, or trade for that matter. Let them stir in the abyss they have created for themselves. They are not a friend, or ally. period