The US and Israel on Tuesday signed a deal that will provide Israel with 25 new Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jets, demonstrating staunch US support for Israel amid the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel’s Defense Ministry said the deal is worth $3 billion and will be financed by US military aid. The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military each year, and President Biden recently signed a bill that will give Israel an additional $17 billion.
The new fighter jets will start being delivered to Israel in 2028 and will bring Israel’s total fleet of F-35s to 75. According to The Times of Israel, 39 out of 50 F-35 jets that were part of an earlier deal have been delivered so far.
Israel first announced its intention to procure the 25 F-35s from the US back in July 2023. The US is also working to push forward a separate deal that will give Israel 25 F-15 fighter jets.
While President Biden recently warned he could withhold certain heavy bomb shipments to Israel over its attack on Rafah, he hasn’t imposed any consequences as Israel has continued to escalate in the city and massacred civilians in a tent camp with US-provided bombs.
When making the warning, Biden also vowed long-term military support would not change, and administration officials said Israel would get every penny of the new $17 billion in military aid.
F-35 jets have lots of problems, I heard. Another 17 billion? What happened to taking care of America which should be the first priority of government. That money should be used for America, not a genocidal, apartheid, religious regime bent on destroying entire populations and stealing their land. I had once hoped that stealing other's lands in such a violent way went out with the past. Somethings are written in human DNA, I guess.
"I had once hoped that stealing other's lands in such a violent way went out with the past" See Putin attack on Ukraine for the latest example.
An example in the past is Texas and the Mexican war. Mexicans were persecuting Texans so Wash. intervened on their behalf, but unlike Russia, they took all Mexican land north of the Rio Grand. We’ll see if Russia wins, they’ll just take those items in question, or if they’ll take all of Ukraine.
Well, thank heavens, the US is finally dumping those useless F-35's on someone else. Wunderwaffen that proved an elusive mirage, the pathetic US citizenry an exhausted thirsty idiot trudging along believing that there is an oasis just over that sand dune, believing the propaganda that the wagon master really does know where he is going. Where the wagon master is going is to a party in DC and then to the bank to stash the loot.
"those useless F-35". LOL. Two of those "useless" F-35s put missiles into the engagement radar defending a vital Iran military installation on April 20.
Will these be the ones that don't crash on takeoff? Asking for a friend…
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
Tonight Congress votes to name a another post office and pass yet another antisemitism resolution.
I’m voting no on both.
I STRONGLY condemn antisemitism, but tonight’s non-binding resolution is an invitation for elected leaders and teachers to infringe on the 1st Amendment.
"name a another post office" What does he have against post office names?
As a citizen. and a tax payer, I must say, it feels like we are being raped by not only ISRAHELL but by our great homeland, the US of A. Have a nice day but don’t forget to pay up!
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If you wan't to speak of hell,look at what the Palestinians do to their own people,and the basic lack of human rights in the region,save for Israel.The streets of Israeli cities are clean and peaceful,with peoples of all backrounds free and doing very well.
It has been that way since 1947. When the UN commission visited the area in 1947, before the break up, their report mention how the Jewish settlements were nicely kept and Arabs settlement look something out of the 1800s.
And they turned the desert green. Such a shallow racist mentality that reflects colonial thinking.
People with the last name Smith are unique and wonderful John! I too was a Smith but was blessed by marrying and divorcing a Volatile and got to keep the great name, in the divorce!
Wanting to improve one's life is not racist-these terms should not be tossed around lightly-most of the middle east is now Judenrein.
That may be true. But that UN commission report was a strong influence in the decision to split Palestine into two areas, which of course let to the creation of Israel.
My grandfather came to Jaffa in the early 1900's.His family had to leave,as poor quality water made everyone sick.
Palestine was a backwater part of the Ottoman empire in 1900s. Not surprising your grandfather had to move. Do you know where he moved to?
Amnesty International’s new investigation shows that Israel imposes a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians across all areas under its control: in Israel and the OPT, and against Palestinian refugees, in order to benefit Jewish Israelis. This amounts to apartheid as prohibited in international law.
Laws, policies and practices which are intended to maintain a cruel system of control over Palestinians, have left them fragmented geographically and politically, frequently impoverished, and in a constant state of fear and insecurity.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/
In the course of establishing Israel as a Jewish state in 1948, Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages, in what amounted to ethnic cleansing.
Since then, successive governments have designed laws and policies to ensure the continued fragmentation of the Palestinian population. Palestinians are confined to enclaves in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the refugee communities, where they are subject to different legal and administrative regimes. This has had the effect of undermining family, social and political ties between Palestinian communities and suppressing sustained dissent against the apartheid system; it also helps to maximise Jewish Israeli control over land and maintain a Jewish demographic majority.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/#
Why do we keep feeding psychotic rouge serial killers that are virtually amoral?
seriously https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fbae98bcdaaec9da902ce08eef87a5378d412dc63eb5b25ab7a6b9f185815d97.jpg
An accomplice is defined as a person who knowingly, voluntarily, or intentionally gives assistance to another in (or in some cases fails to prevent another from) the commission of a crime. An accomplice is criminally liable to the same extent as the principal.
DOESN'T THIS DEFINE EVERY AMERICAN TAXPAYER???
No, because this is against our will.
Washington 'selling' Israel Lockhead jets financed by the money given to Israel by the US taxpayer. What a deal! and only image the greased palms in Washington and Tel Aviv courtesy of The Lobby transmission belt and the limitless genrosity of of the Great American Sap.
Israel won't exist in 2028. This is Biden trying to get the last ounce of money out of the US taxpayer for the MIC using Israel as the excuse before Israel's end.
$3 billion? That's three planes, at best. So much for reputed Semitic haggling talent.
Thankfully, Israel is in the middle of conducting a genocide otherwise the US would really be providing them with some serious shit. /s
The US is committed to the long term security of Israel. This is just another example. Supplying F-35As along with the latest models of F-15Is will maintain the IAF ability to defend itself against Iran.
I'm sure that money would be much better spent blowing up people than housing them.
http://www.publicceo dot com/2024/05/new-state-budget-proposal-includes-major-cuts-to-housing-and-homelessness-programs/
Hurry hurry, a wounded hamas soldier was at this hospital for 20 minutes 3 days ago – https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0a7d53bdee23604a8697daa52b56c6b6289ca081d75909fbb81b5a8e4c26d6d5.jpg thereby making it a {[viable]} target for the israelis/usa to bomb into rubble.