Israel’s Channel 2 has today reported that Israeli officials have accepted the most recent US military aid package, which will see them receiving some $38 billion over the next decade. Israeli officials are said to be eager to finalize it, and it is expected to be signed in the next few days.
This comes just a day after a report in the Washington Post claiming that the deal was being held up by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC), who was planning to advance his own, slightly larger military aid bill through the Senate and accused Obama of trying to take over appropriations duties that are rightfully Congress’.
Graham says Benjamin Netanyahu warned him he was holding up the deal, and that he told Netanyahu to tell the Obama Administration “to go F themselves.” The White House was said to be reluctant to sign the deal with Graham so outraged by it.
Ultimately, this was resolved by Israel promising not to seek additional aid from Congress after signing the Obama deal, except for possibly during wartime, a concession that likely kills the Graham alternative deal, and is seen as Israel siding with the president against Congress.
Obama has been offering record deals to Israel for over a year, with Israel long demanding a little more and a little more. Ultimately, however, there was concern within Israel that extending negotiations beyond Obama’s last term in office risked politicizing Israeli military aid within the US.
Thank God they accepted our $38 billion gift. How magnanimous.
“Israeli officials are said to be eager to finalize it”…
Yeah no kidding.
A million American taxpayers are donating like $38,000 bucks each!
Whatta scam. Has Israel no shame?
no
It is given that Israel has no shame.
The right question is, have Americans no dignity.
$38 billion in war equipment
How about $38 billion for peace?
The reason that there has not been a full-scale attack against Israel since 1973 is that Israel has gotten strong thanks to military aid from the USA. We should be proud of ourselves for preventing a major war.
Instead many of us are ashamed to be party to Israel’s theft, incivility and oppression.
But it seems you are on a crusade in your twisted view that Torah and the God of Judaism is a land grant and not a moral guide.
Who cares? Israel is not the 51st state of the US.
Yes they are
If that was true, they would only have two senators. With this arrangement, they’re just short of a hundred!!!
I am sure that The Donald could have negotiated a much, much, hugely better deal; say, $38 billion a year to Israel — plus a humungous sky-high wall all the way around Israel, for which of course We will pay. USA, USA, USA!
I think you are confused;A Hillaryous condition?
Yeah Trump might suck up to the scum,they own the MSM,but America First is not Israeli friendly,as putting our interests over theirs is a novel idea in modern American politics.
And USA USA is bad?Jesus.
The traitor tells yahoo to tell the US administration to go F themselves.
Man o man o man;What do they have on the Lindsey anyway?Compromising photos?
These scum need cleansing from our political scene.
Yup. Cleansing.
ANYTHING Israel wants, as usual. They run the US Government.
Yes. It is absolutely pathetic.
Disgusting…
Sometimes it sure seems that way.
“Report: US, Israel Agree on $38 Billion Military Aid Deal”
Huh – what’s this?
Israel is gifting USA thirty-eight thousand million bucks…?
Graham is number two on the bribe list of AIPAC. John Bomb McCain is number one. Graham and McCain are more senator of Jerusalem than their home state
(R) Tel Aviv
They should be deported to Israel and stripped of their US citizenship since they put a foreign nation over their own.
Is Antiwar.com the only site where you come paste this hasbara talking point into a comment on a regular basis, or do you have lots of sites to cover?
If the former, could you at LEAST mix it up a little and re-write it every now and then instead of just pasting it over and over?
Jonathan Pollard. USS Liberty. Israel is a duplicitous leech. Israel was FOUNDED by terrorism.
Thanks to Israel you are killing millions.
So, where does Israel get 38 Billion since we hand them our tax money? nice seeing this transfer of wealth going from our taxpayers to Israel to the military industrial complex who in turn fund warmongering think tanks and lobbyist groups.
That is fine but Israel is Israel and America is America. We shouldn’t be funding that welfare state.
I’m proud of my country for helping countries like Israel that are the victims of aggression.
Standard hasbara talking point
So what? Israel is not the 51st state of the US. It is a foreign country located on the other side of the planet. It’s a boat anchor for us more than a benefit because it gets us involved in their problems. No “benefit” is worth that.
They must have some serious dirt on Lindsey. He makes a point of acting like a complete buffoon anytime Israel is mentioned.
Boy, Obama sure drove a hard bargain.
Wait…you mean the US does not get anything in return?
That the media routinely refers to this obscene waste — this theft– of Americans’ money in terms of a “deal” or the result of a “negotiation” –without being torn a gigantic new butt-hole by the American public at large–is far more troubling than the criminal breach of trust itself.
Would anyone care to point out in the US Constitution, where precisely it grants the authority for the US government to steal from Americans “via taxation” and to then take the stolen funds and gift/give it to any foreign country/entity?
I can’t seem to locate it..
Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises …”
There are any number of hooks that handing the money over to another country could be hung on — treaty obligations, payment for naval basing (Article I, Section 8 also specifically enumerates a power to raise and maintain an navy), or just an unspecified but implicit “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”
It would be pretty hard to make a constitutional issue out of it. Better to just take notice that it’s a really, really, really bad idea.
Uh huh. What does the U.S. taxpayer get in return from the Zionazis? Bupkis!
Kill the ghoul. Nuke Israel.
More money we don’t have. Oh but it’s Israel so it’s okay.