With the coronavirus pandemic putting the US in potential economic crisis, Israeli officials are keen to get as much military aid out of the Americans, and as quickly, as they can. The requests seek the aid delivery well ahead of schedule, and potentially double the agreed amount.
Israel is expected to present this as their own coronavirus-related need, with some officials saying that since US aid tends to be spent heavily on US arms, produced in US factories, it should be easy to present it as domestic spending, not foreign aid.
A lot of officials are at least reasonably sure that this will work enough that Israel’s aid isn’t in serious threat, despite the US economic woes, but some are saying this isn’t a good time to try to ask for more, and risk making the aid into a political issue at a time when a lot of people have their hands out.
Some experts are saying Israel should hold back the requests, and with the possibility that the US may consider foreign aid cuts across the board, that Israel shouldn’t ask for any exemptions.
Israel’s position, as it so often is, seems to be divided between the assumption that they can always squeeze a little more out of the US, and concerns that if they press the US at the wrong time, they may risk starting a longer-term rift for what could be a protracted period of economic weakness.
well I have no money,lost job,waiting for the feds money and unemployment compensation. I will starve soon. Yet this lecherous illegal “country” Israel sucks us dry. Yes indeed time for pitch forks
21,,HuRaHHH!!! We can do alot better than “pitch forks”! 🙂
Let’s just cancel it altogether. They don’t have the sort of enemies they once had. They don’t need it like they once did. We have other problems. This only enables the worst among them.
It was illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral to give them one penny from the very beginning. They have enemies because they EARNED THEM.
The very establishment of Israel goes against any sense of justice and morality.
Let Israel have what it wants, in exchange for bringing the troops home.
All troops home yesterday, then talk about aid.
Luch, U are half right! 🙂
Cut them off completely in exchange for zilch. And cut everyone else off in exchange for zilch. WHILE bringing the troops home.
You’re right on the 2nd part – bringing the troops home – but not with giving Zionist Israel what it wants. That leech of a state’s been stealing from us taxpayers for way too long now. We want a refund!
Zionists are too powerful. You cant fight every political group. It should, in theory, be possible to compromise.
Why should the victim compromise with their assailant?
The weak are at the mercy of the strong, and the strong do as they will.
However, it’s possible to at least divert a raging river.
Whatever the case, I certainly don’t want Israeli aid to increase if there’s no corresponding benefit. Israel should have to choose which thing it wants, shouldn’t be able to choose everything.
But you don’t really think there would be any “corresponding benefit”, do you? Otherwise I would probably agree with you because if we did remove all the troops from outside our borders Israel probably wouldn’t be so ballsy regardless how much aid we gave them. But we both know that’s a fantasy so cut them off along with all other foreign aid that isn’t nonperishable food items or medicinally related.
I just wish there were a way to cut a deal with Israel.
It shouldn’t be possible for a single group to wield such power despite being so vulnerable. They’re like the Hanseatic League, which was a dominant group of towns/guilds in Germany who relied on trade. The Hanseatic League was weak due to lacking a large state, economy of scale.
Israel controls the US, but its just a ruling class. That power won’t remain forever. And it’s trying to carve a nation state out of territory that is already occupied. I mean if it were carving up Canada, there just aren’t that many Amerindians in large parts. And the whites are weak. Canada would be possible, but they’re carving up the MidEast, an impossibility.
The USA is coming apart at the seams and Israel wants more money from USA taxpayer,,I am one mad MOFU!!!!!!!!!! 🙁 Purge the DC Ghouls and split the USA into 3 separate nations.
50 to start, then get working on breaking up the states as well. THAT is the only sound solution.
Anxious to hear what President Adelson has to say about this.
We must do as the boss says. End of discussion.
PS: https://israelpalestinenews.org/israelis-have-taken-to-spitting-on-palestinians-during-coronavirus/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily+Updates
I’m sure they were spitting in self defense.
For sure 🙂
Grifters have to grift, unfortunately very successful grifters to the tune of multi billions.
But, hey, we now have niten yaahoo back in the saddle, kushner prob estatic.
We should just deliver them nuclear bombs, and have a dozen or so B-52s deliver them. They can just drop them on their doorstep.
Let’s see how much time Alex Jones and qanon spend on this story?
Wake up ppl? There are honest journalists out there who have won awards for integrity. And who have NO FEAR of the Zionist Criminal Machine.
A great example of this is Whitney Webb.
Check out her stuff.
From the brainless to the shameless.
Parasites swell as they engorge on their chosen victim.
What would the founding fathers think of the USA and its hellish relationship with Israel?
If we were giving Israel what that country deserves I would have no problem with doubling that amount: 0 X 2 = 0.