With Joe Biden the apparent winner of the US presidential election, world leaders have been busy congratulating the former vice president. Israel’s prime minister and president said their congratulations over the weekend, and according to The Jerusalem Post, Israeli officials are already looking to discuss long-term military aid with the president-elect.
An Israeli defense source told the Post that a new multibillion-dollar military aid package would be something Israel wants to discuss with Biden right away. The current aid package to Israel is massive. It allocates $3.8 billion to Israel in military aid every year until 2027. The deal was signed in 2016 under the Obama administration, and Israel received its first $3.8 billion in 2018.
“We will want to talk about a new package and program,” the source said. “The new plan will need to take into account the changing threats and challenges we face in the Middle East.”
While President Trump has been extremely pro-Israel, Israeli officials don’t seem to be worried about much changing under a Biden administration. On Sunday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invited Biden to visit Jerusalem and called the president-elect “a longstanding friend of Israel.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his victory. “I would like to start with congratulations for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Netanyahu said in a statement from his office. “I have a long and warm personal connection with Joe Biden for nearly 40 years, and I know him as a great friend of the State of Israel. I am certain that we will continue to work with both of them in order to further strengthen the special alliance between Israel and the US.”
Netanyahu also thanked President Trump for “the great friendship he showed the State of Israel and me personally. I congratulate him on recognizing Jerusalem [as the capital] and [Israeli sovereignty over] the Golan Heights, for his stand on Iran, for the historic peace accords and for bringing the alliance between Israel and the US to unprecedented heights.”
Biden has said he would not reverse President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A Biden campaign official told the Jewish News Syndicate that a Biden administration would also not reverse Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in 1967.
Aggressive panhandling from the Zionists seems to never end.
Feels way more like extoration to me.
Meet the new boss… Just like the old boss..
Not to be a nit picker but if you’re are going to quote The Who, that would be: “Same as the old boss”. Actually I was being a nit picker. But I do agree whole heartedly.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his victory. “I would like to start with congratulations for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Netanyahu said in a statement from his office. “I have a long and warm personal connection with Joe Biden for nearly 40 years, and I know him as a great friend of the State of Israel. I am certain that we will continue to work with both of them in order to further strengthen the special alliance between Israel and the US.”
I wonder if Bibi’s nose fits as well in Biden’s ass as it did Trumps. A reincarnated Hitler could have won and Bibi would still kiss his ass for 4 billion and the UN veto.
Sure seems like his hand will fit into our pockers same way as the former pick. Please excuse my inadvertent pun….
How distasteful. Bibi wastes no time getting out the beggar bowl and making sound like he is doing us a favor.
I wonder when Israel will be able to support itself ? What is wrong ?
What’s wrong is that Israel is surrounded by countries that have been trying to destroy it. That’s why Israel needs our weapons.
They chose that tough neighborhood when they could have had a homeland elsewhere.
“It allocates $3.8 billion to Israel in military aid every year ..” Is this in addition to what we have been doling out from 1979? That previous one was for Camp David. This is for what ?
Israel is not apartheid.
Israel was ranked 28 out of 167 on The Economist’s Democracy Index. That’s better than Belgium, Italy, Greece, Cyprus & at least a dozen other European countries.
Israel has maintained democracy even though it’s been under continual attack. By contrast, we Americans locked American citizens of Japanese descent in concentration camps during world war 2 & we confiscated Joe DiMaggio’s father’s fishing boat because he was of Italian descent.
The highest Arab state is Tunisia which is ranked 69. Palestine is 109, Libya 154, Sudan 155, Yemen 158, Saudi Arabia 159, Algeria 126, Egypt 127, Qatar 133, Oman 140, United Arab Emirates 147, Bahrain 148, Morocco 100, Lebanon 106, Iraq 114, Jordan 115, Kuwait 116, Comoros 121, Mauritania 119, Djibouti 146, Syria 166. Iran 150.
Even Palestinians think that Israel is a democracy.
“57% say democracy in Israel is good or very good”
http://pcpsr.org/en/node/723
Israel is a Jewish State, if you are not Jewish your are not entitled to the same rights as Jewish folks.
How is that not prejudicial and emblematic of Apartheid?
Arabs in Israel have more freedom than Jews in Israel. Arabs in Israel have the freedom to decide whether or not to join the military. Jews in Israel have to join the military whether they want to or not.
How sweet of Bibi!
Does Israel ever stop bleeding American Tax payers for more money. The only time they give back is when AIPAC is funding congressmen for their loyalty.
Many American companies have set up shop in Israel to take advantage of Israeli expertise in science & technology. The weapons we give Israel protect Americans & American companies in Israel.
Rust never sleeps, and our No.1 Welfare Queen never gets her hand out of our pockets. There are no time outs for us taxpayers. & don’t think or utter any discontent about our forced aiding and abetting the rogue nuclear apartharhide entity and it’s genocidal policies. You will be tarred with antisematism, even though the vast majority of their victims are the semetic local inhabitants who have been there for millemnia.
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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 American soldiers fight Hamas here.
How much more?
By the end of Obama’s term, they’d asked for some of our B-52’s (6 of them initially) and some of our F-22’s.
Self-defense is not genocide.
1939 European Jews 9 million
1945 European Jews 3 million
Genocide
2012 Gaza 1.6 million
2017 Gaza 1.9 million
Not Genocide
“Self-defense is not genocide.”
True.
Nor is repetitively posting the same copied/pasted/canned talking points over and over “discussion.”