Israeli officials are reportedly increasingly resigned to the reality that the US will be selling F-35s to the United Arab Emirates even if they object. This turned out particularly embarrassing as the UAE believed they were promised these sales as part of the Israel peace deal, only for Israel to try to undermine it.
Hoping to get something out of this process, Israel is expecting to shift focus toward demanding that the US give Israel more advanced weapons in the name of qualitative advantage that the US insists it will ensure Israel retains.
This is not an uncommon path for US arms sales in the Middle East to take, though Israel would’ve done much less harm to its new relationship with the UAE if they had just demanded US weapons from the start, instead of publicly trying to sabotage the sales.
Since Israel already has its own F-35s, it’s not clear what they will seek in return from the US. It may be air defense systems that would counter the planes, or they may want more in something more usable.
Too bad … Time to cut the apron strings on this ungrateful 73 year old baby.
What does Hamas want to do after it defeats Israel?
When the rocket attacks first began against Israel, a senior Hamas leader, Dr. Yunis Al-Astal, published an article in the Hamas journal, Al-Risala, where he compared Hamas’ al-Qassam rockets to the Manjaniq catapult which the Prophet Muhammad used against the Jews of Khaybar. The fall of Khaybar, he explained, opened the gates of the Byzantine Empire to Muslim conquest and was the first step towards the fall of Constantinople. Now, the fall of Israel, he said, would open the gates of Europe to Islam and lead to the fall of Rome.
Hamas MP and cleric Al-Astal proclaimed in 2008, “We will conquer Rome, and from there continue to conquer the two Americas and even Eastern Europe” (Al-Aqsa TV, April 11, 2008)
It’s in our interest to give Israel weapons so that Israeli soldiers will fight Hamas over there rather than needing to have our soldiers fight Hamas here.
Ridiculous… Why in the name of God would we have to “have our soldiers fight Hamas there”????
Well it certainly keeps the money rolling in to the military-industrial complex and its shareholders, maybe that’s what he means by “our interest”.
Impossible to shake away “The Old” man from “Sinbad’s” shoulder. Sinbad America willingly took the Zionist old man on to its shoulder. Don’t dream about “Cutting Away the Strings”. America’s fate is sealed.
I am sure that if we let Israel be the middle man in the arms deals to UAE, it would all be just peachy
Now isn’t that a big surprise. Israel is trying to extort even more weapons systems for old “Uncle Stupid”, How’s about a Virginia class nuclear-powered attack submarine? They are entitled.
Make your own weapons…!
…..”Since Israel already has its own F-35s, it’s not clear what they will seek in return from the US.”…….They want the new “Tactical Nukes” that fit on them.
They want the delivery systems for tactical nukes, which we can dress up as precision guided conventional weapons. This is the same as Germany did when it delivered subs meant for nuclear weapons, with special launch tubes for them, but pretended they were for sea superiority against people who have no sea power.
It is protection money, ransom, that Israel demanding from the U S, its slave. Arms could be only a euphemism.Zionists will get away with what they want from its slave.Slaves have no choice.
A spoil child throws a tantrum once again. Watch out what Israel wishes for 😝.
The American people have gotten extraordinarily tired of the demands, bullying, and blackmail the American government has received from the fully nuclear armed, viciously apartheid, theocracy which is what Israel has become in the 21st century.
And we have one word for you: enough!!
We will provide you no more American military to get slaughtered or maimed for life in the process of “neutralizing” all your alleged existential threats in the Middle East. And of course, as we both know, that includes all of your neighbors in the region.
And on top of that, sir, we would appreciate it greatly if the US government immediately pull all financial and military aid from your country immediately, as all this aid is completely illegal under the Symington Amendment.
We the people would like to see this accomplished and immediately, sir. The days of the host/parasite relationship between the Us government and that of Israel may well be coming to a very abrupt halt, and it is damn well about time, sir!!!
Sun comes up, Israel demands money. Sun goes down, Israel demands money. Moon waxes, Israel demands money. Moon wanes, Israel demands money. Weather is sunny, Israel demands money. Weather is rainy, Israel demands money. I sense a pattern here!
Unfortunately the American people haven’t gotten tired enough of billions of dollars going to Israel while Americans go without healthcare and jobs and eat from food banks.
If the billions of dollars you’re talking about are the $3.8 billion dollars in direct aid, that’s about 1/195th the amount that the US spends on Medicare and 1/16th what it spends on food stamps. There are huge problems with US aid to Israel, but the amount of cash on the barrelhead to Israel versus US healthcare and food aid spending aren’t among them.
Why does the US give weapons to Israel while millions of Americans go without healthcare and jobs and line up in droves at the food banks?