Israel’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that it signed a $5.2 billion contract with Boeing to purchase 25 F-15 fighter jets using US military aid amid global calls for an arms embargo on Israel over the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
The contract is part of an arms sale the Biden administration approved for Israel back in August that’s worth $18.8 billion. The deal gives Israel the option for another 25 F-15 fighter jets and includes upgrades for its existing fleet of F-15s and other related equipment.
Under the contract for the first batch of 25 jets, Israel will start taking deliveries of Boeing’s new F-15IA in 2031, and it’s expected to receive four to six of the aircraft annually.
Earlier this year, Israel signed a $3 billion contract to acquire 25 Lockheed Martin-made F-35 jets, which was also financed by US military aid.
Brown University’s Costs of War project said in a report last month that US support for Israel over the past year had cost US taxpayers at least $22.76. The total includes $17.9 billion in direct military aid and $4.8 billion in spending on US military operations in support of Israel, including the bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.
The new contract for the F-15 fighter jets brings total US spending on Israel since October 7, 2023, to about $27.96 billion.
The Biden administration continues to provide weapons to Israel despite foreign assistance laws that prohibit military aid to countries that purposely block humanitarian aid. The administration has also received around 500 reports of US weapons being used by Israel to kill civilians unnecessarily, but no action has been taken.
Well they are going to need some new planes after all the bombing Israel has been doing since Hamas started this latest war 13 months ago.
Why should anybody care whether Israel needs new planes so it can continue a campaign of terrorism? Why would anybody want to pay for that?
Yes, it all started Oct 7. Before that, Israel was showering Palestinians with love and kisses.
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You mean "flowers and dancing"?
Yes. The MIC is surely looking forward to this.
Why, it's not like they're dropping bombs on anyone with any air defense toys. But nice one on throwing your usual hasbara type troll comment about history starting on Oct 7th.
He's a glorious idiot, probably Employee of the Month at whatever back-room fifth-column ASI apologist pop-up shop is paying him by the word to lie until everyone believes it.
And how do we know that you are not being paid by terrorists to spread their propaganda?
You don’t. If you assert I am, the Burden of Proof falls on you to demonstrate the truth of your claim.
As to my assertion, I couched it in a “probably” statement. Whether you are, or aren’t, is so mundane that I may as well take your word (worthless as it is) on what you actually are. Either you are “onna them-there Hasbro trolls” or you’re just someone with your head so far up the Apartheid State of Israel’s a$$ that we can’t tell if you’re coughing or the ASI is farting.
History started maybe 3000 years ago. But this war, one of many in that area, started on Oct 7. That is a fact.
I posted this in wrong spot. Which batch? Prewhistle-blowers?
F-15 and F-35 fighter jets to kill women and children …. If only from the absurdly colossal cowardice represented, Biden should be ashamed to honor such a 'contract'.
Using USA jets, bombs and bullets supplied by the "indispensable nation" using funds extracted from unwilling Americans and given to "the most moral military" to murder and maim women and children.
Just… . Fuking…. Sick.
Entirely accurate.
"US Taxpayer Gives Boeing More Printed Money, Enjoys Living in Sewer, film at 11!"
Exactly that from a purely economical point of view it is indeed welfare for the superrich. But it is also illegal according to US law, International Law, besides being criminal it is immoral and inhuman. This is a game exclusively for and by subhuman scum to play.
The good thing about wars and scares: US military industrial complex makes a good profit out of them. Sigh!
Spot on Maju!
Trump can determine that Israel is guilty of genocide, then cut off all funding. But would he? One the one hand, I believe he wants to stop being the world's policeman. On the other hand, one of his most generous donors has her own views about what should be done.
Money and power is all he really wants.
You shouldn't believe that. Trumps foreign policy is as imperialist as that of his fake "rivals" at the fake "democrat" brand: he just wants to be on good terms with Russia, otherwise China is his top tier enemy and his support for the Zionist Genocidal Entity is even greater than that of Blinken. He's best friend with Netanyahu, has been massively backed by rabid zionist Adelson and was the one to sign for this genocide of Gaza in 2017 (for some reason it was delayed but Trump, Bin Salman, Al Sissi and Netanyahu all agreed to it, goal: build the Ben Gurion Canal).
It's more a hope than a conviction that Trump might end the genocide.
Thanks for bringing the Ben Gurion Canal to my attention. I wonder how Britain feels about that. I wonder if the Houthi's could shut it down too. And I wonder if the new sea route along Russia's north coast (which is opening up due to global warming) would make the both the Suez and the Ben Gurion moot.
It’s allegedly the goal of the genocide. As outlined by Bin Farhan back in 2017, Gaza was to be genocided for that reason alone, the survivors would be pushed to Egypt’s Sinai and Saudi Arabia would finance the new refugee camps (a pittance for them). In exchange Bin Salman would get his absolutist power consolidated with US help (which already happened in October 2017: great Saudi purge). For whatever reason (maybe objection from a recalcitrant Turkey interfering in Qatar?) the genocide did not happen in 2018, as I expected, but was postponed. The criminal project was never fully cancelled anyhow, as it’s apparent now.
Britain? I call it “New Puerto Rico” now. They will do the US bidding, just as Israel or Germany do. The Corbynist threat was dislodged via Brexit (check the dates: they overlap extremely well, Brexit debates pushed the voters to choose between the three right-wing options: Reform and Tories for it, Lib-Dems against, abandoning the undecided Labour Party) and then via Starmer, who mercilessly purged all Corbynists and anyone with even the slightest anti-Zionist qualm. Corbyn did not react in time and no alt-socialist party was constituted, hence Starmer got the PM post and will hold it for years to come. Sad but true (it also mimics what happened in US left-leaning politics).
The so-called “Houthis” (IMO the only legitimate government of Yemen, byproduct of the Arab Spring and a broad coalition of forces of which Ansarullah is only the strongest force) have been one of the most serious challenges to the US Zionist-Imperial plan (yes, it’s the USA who leads this genocide, Israel are just the goons). They’ve defeated Saudi Arabia in a decade-long war and, in the meantime, pioneered drone-based neo-guerrilla warfare, which is a serious challenge to traditional forms of domination or neocolonial bullying. They’re rather impervious in their mountains, much as Iran or Hizbollah are, so IMO they should remain as a most serious threat to the US Empire in the region. But now the focus is moving to Iran, Iraq and surely also Syria, as well as the latent battlefield of the Persian Gulf.
Ultimately what stands between Hizbollah and the West Bank? Armaggedon… literally: the Israeli military base of Meggido sits right there. Once “the Resistance” forces manage to invade (or “liberate” if you prefer) Gallilee (which is largely Palestinian in demographics) and the Golan Heights, the West Bank will be armed and it sits right next to the core cities of Israel such as West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or the key port of Haifa, which is about the only lifeline Israel still has in operation.
The North sea route of Russia is a lifeline for that great power but it’s hindered, like all Russian trade projects (also Trans-Siberian railroad and Russia-Iran-India transport project across the Caspian Sea), by the protectionist imperial disengagement of Europe (i.e. anti-Russian sanctions, which harm Europe a lot but our treacherous political class embraces dangerously). Right now Russian oil typically goes via India, what may mean circumnavigating all Asia or a forth and back transport via Suez Canal in the best case, or also via the likes of Morocco, who seems impervious to any US sanctions because they’re best friends of Israel (and the USA itself). Russia is still selling but the middlemen make most of the profit, while the transport of goods via Russia from Asia is not happening (and may well be remain heavily restricted for many years to come, really).
Trump doesn't have to worry about political donors anymore. This was his last campaign.
"Trump can determine that Israel is guilty of genocide, then cut off all funding" LOL. Got any other jokes of the day?
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." — President Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Address January 17, 1961
Corporate welfare generated by the 1% for the 1% and paid for by the 90% using its pet settler colonial apartheid state "defending itself" by genociding an occupied people for lebensraum as the excuse.
The US gifts Israel with more planes, which the US knows will be used to murder helpless refugees being driven from place to place on the exact model of the Armenian Genocide. This is complicity of the worst sort. The US officials doing this must be proscuted for genocide, and punished under Federal Law (which makes this a capital crime, meaning both that the death penalty is possible and that bail is not allowed).