With the deficit soaring and America’s own military facing a prospective budget crunch, President Obama today announced that he intends to seek $205 million in additional funding for Israel’s missile defense system.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor, who announced the proposal, cited the “threat” posed by Hamas and Hezbollah as the reason for the funding of the “Iron Dome” system, made by Israel’s state owned weapons company Rafael.
The $205 million, if approved, will be in addition to the roughly $3 billion the Obama Administration has set aside annually for military aid to Israel.
Iron Dome has faced considerable criticism based on cost overruns and a checkered history of testing. Even if it eventually proves effective the wisdom of spending some $50,000 per missile to shoot down the inexpensive rockets it is effective against has been questioned.
There are things in this comedy that never cease to amuse, that, for example, the US swindlers sell anti-missile systems that do no work to Israeli swindlers who know every well that is the case but are happy to buy them as long as they can pay for them with money given them from the US treasury.
Studying said technology, they isolate what might actually be useful, clone it, and sell it to US enemies.
It is a neat little game all around–and the industrial warmongers over the globe do quite well, don't they?
The defense, security, and economic prosperity of Israel are worth any price.
Really this is a drop in the bucket–why not make it an even billion, or even a cool trillion? If you can't afford it anyway, why not think big?
I think you summed it up pretty well!
Thanks. And yes instead of adding piddling amounts of .2 billon here .2 billion there, just give Israel say 5 billion each year, and Gaza a billion.
"ISTANBUL — Turkey and Russia signed 17 agreements on Wednesday to enhance cooperation in energy and other fields, including pacts to build Turkey’s first nuclear power plant and furthering plans for an oil pipeline from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean." (NYT)
Jeje, that and a Syrian nuclear reactor are sung to the tune of "Tea for two.".
Not to worry, the Israeli supermen will defeat the Russian Bear mano a mano just as they sent Hitler to his maker in WWII.
The official history, enforced by several years' imprisonment in a number of Western nations for doubting it, states that Hitler killed six million Jewish supermen in WWII.
Millions without jobs in the USA, more money for Israel. Washington DC are traitors to America.
It's shameless. More money for a country that already spies and steals from us secretly and lies and steals from us openly through their proxies in our government. But, of course, seeing as they, our representational RATS, are tossing loot around that isn't theirs then that makes it A-OK.
The US is still the poor wee defenseless country that just can't say no to big powerful Israel and with Schumer "guarding" the senate with "every bone in his body" and AIPAC haunting the halls of any and every committe meeting we are just trembling in our little boots.
Pay is the name of the game, or Netanyahou might get his feathers up and build another settlement, which he will do anyway.
Yes, Israel will go for it – no matter what number is on their lottery ticket, they always win and we pay for the ticket and the pot.
This is what TRAITORS to the American people do – a Congress filled with TRAITORS and a TRAITOR in the White House. It is damn the Amerian people but support Israel!
Perhaps – but NOT likely – the Amerivan people will discover that Israel is our only real enemy in the Middle East!