There is one thing that can always be depended upon in US politics. When a US president asks Congress to give some money to Israel, Congress always gives them everything requested and a bit more. This year, with tensions between the White House and Israel’s far-right government rising, the old trend is being taking to an extreme.
In the FY2017 military spending package, President Obama had sought $103.835 million for Israel’s missile defense program, an annual outlay that the White House has been trying to get into the overall Israel aid package, but which Israel keeps insisting remains independent.
The new House appropriations measure went above and beyond in trumping the Obama request, setting aside $635.7 million, over six times the amount sought, for the Israeli missile defense program. The huge over-budget, along with a lot of the money coming from the House putting funds to US missile defense systems, have the White House threatening a veto.
In practice this is just going to be another source of fighting over the annual military spending bill, and one of many, though administration officials have suggested that they are likely to abandon their objection so long as the package is tied to an Israeli memorandum of understanding on the next decade-long aid package, which the White House promises will be record-sized, but which Israel has so far refused to accept.
Too much money to Israel. Its truly SICK.
What? No money for American schools, bridges and highways but plenty for Israel?
If we stopped giving money to Israel, that money would not go for American schools, bridges and highways. It would go for tax breaks for the rich.
Poor excuse, which is untrue, because those monies would at least be accountable to those politicians handling the money. Giving aid to Israel is like giving money to a mass murderer for being a good killer.
We had a choice of spending money for American schools, bridges and highways or giving tax breaks to the rich & we (not I) chose to give tax breaks to the rich. Our only hope for change was Bernie, but he lost.
We Americans benefit from our access to intelligence from MOSAD which is considered one of the world’s best intelligence agencies & from being able to pre-position military supplies in Israel in case we need to intervene in the Middle East.
We give aid to Israel because Israel is the victim, not the perpetrator.
The Mossad is a “false flag” terrorist organization who had its operatives HERE on 911 to document the event. How would have Israel known of 911 before it happened?? and why would it send its operatives here to witness and document the event?? These Mossad operatives were arrested, and keep in custody for six months, and failed numerous lie detector tests. Are you nuts?? Please get a grip, Israel has never been a victim, but has mastered the art of portraying itself as such, which is just a canard. Israel has always been an instigator of state terror. Do your homework…
What Israel deserves is a cold, and brutal isolation for always being the paramount terrorist and enabler of terrorism. The sickening political whores in both chambers of the US government continue to thieve, and undermine the American public at every turn for a country with no legitimacy, or moral compass to speak of..being the Zionist Entity.
Israel is the victim of terrorism, not a terrorist or an enabler of terrorism.
The Zionist and Israel are also common thieves and a criminal gang.
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal
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ABSENTEES’ Property Law-
1. In this Law –
(a) “property” includes immovable arid movable property, moneys, a vested or contingent right in property, goodwill and any right in a body of persons or in its management;
(b) “absentee” means –
(1) a person who, at any time during the period between the 16th Kislev, 5708 (29th November, 1947) and the day on which a declaration is published, under section 9(d) of the Law and Administration Ordinance, 5708-1948(1), that the state of emergency declared by the Provisional Council of State on the 10th Iyar, 5708 (19th May, 1948)(2) has ceased to exist, was a legal owner of any property situated in the area of Israel or enjoyed or held it, whether by himself or through another, and who, at any time during the said period –
(i) was a national or citizen of the Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, SaudiArabia, Trans-Jordan, Iraq or the Yemen, or
(ii) was in one of these countries or in any part of Palestine outside the area of Israel, or
(iii) was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine
read on at the link
And here:
news.antiwar.com/…/high-court-israel-can-legally-seize-palestinian-home.
Apr 17, 2015 – ‘Absentee’s Property Law’ Expanded to Include Occupied East … The purge of Palestinian civilians during the founding of Israel left a lot of …
And If you still don’t get it maybe I can make it simpler for you—just imagine a gang of terrorist coming to your house to terrorize or kill your family, burn your landscape, poison your well if you have one , slaughter your pets or livestock , and making you abandon your property and flee for your life while they take ownership of everything you ever had..
Or maybe you cant imagine it and are the type that needs to experience it to get it..
Traitors, traitors, traitors.
Prosecute and deport them to Israel.
“We,Americans, will starve happily while you feast with our money”
American law makers
The Shabbat goys in Congress are doing the bidding of their paymasters.
There’s no rule against posting book-length cut and paste screeds because you’re too lazy to make your point yourself and because you apparently think everyone who’s smart enough to read your posts is also too stupid to use Google.
But posting the same book-length comment five times as if it will get automatically approved the fifth time when it wasn’t automatically approved the first time is just dumb and makes my job harder. From now on when I open my moderation queue and it’s full of nothing but repeated book-length comments from you, I’ll just delete them unread instead of taking the time to find and approve one iteration of each.
With such a weak rebuttal!!!! I was hoping you would at least say SOMETHING of worth instead of childish ad-homenim attacks. Can you refute his post?? or are you just another cheap lapdog for the Zionist cause????
No rebuttal ehh? the ad-hominem attacks are much easier since what Cal posted was the truth. Leave the debates to the thinkers. Have a nice perpetual nap!
I wasn’t aware that I had posted the comments more than once—I was having a problem with this laptop, the touch pad and kept getting a screen freeze and disconnect signals which confused me as to what had gone through and what hadn’t. —-its not the one I usually use.
However I am quite capable of ‘making my point’ so its not a problem of ‘ laziness’. It takes more effort to post FACTUAL information with sources than to just blather off a personal ‘opinion”.
Furthermore I post these ‘educational’ comments for the benefit of readers who may not have seen this information— exactly because they don’t use goggle or anything else to do any research on what they are talking about..
And the next time you have a problem with my comment mistakes I suggest you approach me with something other than snide asshole insults—if you are so stressed over your mod job and don’t want information based comments/discussion’ here just say and so and I will withdraw.
How do the Palestinians benefit from being terrorized, their homes, and villages destroyed, and families murdered by Zionist gangs in 1947??? Since then Israel has engaged in systematic terror against its neighbors, and the very people it illegally occupies, subjugates, and murders on a daily basis. FYI…THE US MILITARY DOES NOT NEED ANY ISRAELI MILITARY ADVANCES CONSIDERING THAT ITS SPY NETWORK STOLE NUMEROUS CLASSIFIED MILITARY DOCS VIA JEFFERY POLLARD AND NUMEROUS OTHER OPERATIVES. YOU SOUND LIKE A TRAITOR….