White House says it will offer largest military package in US history
Source: Ynetnews, Reuters
The United States plans to offer Israel the largest military assistance package in US history, according to an Obama administration official.
"We are prepared to sign an MOU (memorandum of understanding) with Israel that would constitute the largest single pledge of military assistance to any country in US history," a White House official told Reuters.
The statement came hours after 83 US senators sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to reach a military assistance deal with Israel.
"In light of Israel's dramatically rising defense challenges, we stand ready to support a substantially enhanced new long-term agreement to help provide Israel the resources it requires to defend itself and preserve its qualitative military edge," said the letter.
Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4796369,00.html
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)We just keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)But expect another round of "we have to save social security and medicare by privatizing them" BS to start up.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)War War War
Dear 83 senators, Israel is a rich country. It could make peace if it wished. Why are we spending our money for more war instead of spending it on infrastructure, free public universities, health care for all as other developed peaceful countries do? If you want war, go live in and support Sudan.
fred v
(271 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... setting the stage for HRC's term at the helm.
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)you would think that would feed the greed for awhile. But then again, the more you feed the greed the hungrier it gets.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)amount this will cost us will skyrocket.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)This has nothing to do with "supporting" Israel.
We need a complete turn-around. Let's focus on peace and a healthy Earth.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)Karmadillo
(9,253 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)I'd like to see if mine were in on it.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)The letter was initiated by Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and was signed by a broad cross-section of the Senateincluding the two leaders, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
Sanders was not on it.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)One of my senators (Klobachar) was on it but Franken was not. I'm a little surprised to see Elizabeth Warren's name on there.
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)I support her, she is my Senator but this position does not please me at all.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Her stance on Israel has been pretty well documented, and it mirrors Hilary's for the most part.
Here's what Warren said in 2014:
At a town-hall meeting on Cape Cod last month, Warren answered critics of her vote in favor of a Senate measure to send an additional $225 million in military funding to Israel during the war. Here is a report on the town-hall meeting from the Cape Cod Times:
I think the vote was right, and I'll tell you why I think the vote was right," [Warren] said. "America has a very special relationship with Israel. Israel lives in a very dangerous part of the world, and a part of the world where there aren't many liberal democracies and democracies that are controlled by the rule of law. And we very much need an ally in that part of the world.
Warren said Hamas has attacked Israel indiscriminately, but with the Iron Dome defense system, the missiles have "not had the terrorist effect Hamas hoped for." When pressed by another member of the crowd about civilian casualties from Israel's attacks, Warren said she believes those casualties are the "last thing Israel wants.
But when Hamas puts its rocket launchers next to hospitals, next to schools, they're using their civilian population to protect their military assets. And I believe Israel has a right, at that point, to defend itself," Warren said, drawing applause.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/hillary-elizabeth-warren-and-israel/379721/
Sometimes we have to accept that our politicians may not mirror our beliefs exactly, but they're still good choices for us in the areas where they do.
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)increase the Republicans' belief that the Democratic Party is anti-Semitic. Israel has done some wrongs in the past, but you should not be defending Palestine either. This is why a lot of people still wonder about this party and Jewish voters.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Hagee: Jews Will Make End Times Deal With The Antichrist, 9/11 Was God's Judgment
SUBMITTED BY Brian Tashman on Friday, 11/15/2013 2:25 pm
Trinity Broadcasting Network hosted a Praise The Lord prophecy special this month, featuring a number of speakers including televangelist John Hagee. The right-wing pastor explained that during the End Times, the Jewish people will not accept Jesus as the Messiah until he returns because they have just three-and-a-half years or seven-years before made a deal with the Antichrist, who is the false messiah, and they are extremely skeptical of that.
David Reagan, another Christian Zionist preacher, said the Jewish people will experience a horrible holocaust and the vast majority will die during the End Times: Two-thirds of them are going to die and that one-third that is left at the end is going to finally come to the end of themselves.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-jews-will-make-end-times-deal-antichrist-911-was-gods-judgment#sthash.6467gRVt.dpuf
Madmiddle
(459 posts)are the gods behind the 9/11 attack. The explosives inside the building were loaded by a contractor, hired by the United States Government, to level the three buildings on that day. Ignorance is all that stops us from a revolution and fear.,
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Not contractors. It was a LRSU team from FT Drum NY.
I know it's true because I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy that was at a bar with someone from the team.
They all died in a tragic space shuttle door gunner training exercise.
Indydem
(2,642 posts)That door gunner on that fucking space glider has killed so many fine Americans!
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)But I went through Stargate Selection and went to SG-1.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)The magical silent explosives were planted by black ops teams wearing invisibility cloaks supplied by the real-life institute that J.K. Rowling's books are based on (but it's really in Israel).
DashOneBravo
(2,679 posts)Everyone knows that magical explosives are not silent.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)..with some help from Big Foot and some orcs.
Sheese, everybody knows that
NYCButterfinger
(755 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)"Excuse me, we need to expose these beams and attach some "stuff" to them, and then lay several miles of wiring all through the building..."
But somehow NOBODY noticed......lol
were loaded by a contractor, hired by the United States Government
"Hi, we'd like you to bid on a project to destroy some skyscrapers with the people still in them... but time it so it happens at the same time some terrorists fly big jets into the building, ok?...and DON'T tell anybody!"
lol
if that was true, surely they would have scripted a notification for Dubya than him sitting in a classroom reading MY PET GOAT
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I don't think there's a wide-spread perception that the Democratic party is anti-Semitic or hostile to Israel. It's an faux-opinion disingenuously held merely for political opportunism. The only people "still wondering about this party and Jewish voters" are those whose positions will not change regardless of facts.
I would however, be more that open to seeing objective, peer-reviewed numbers and their analyses supporting your position one way or the other,
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Opposing Israeli violations of international law and human decency on one hand, then turning around and pouring billions of dollars into its war machine on the other is symptomatic of the political rot in this country, your false equivalence statements about Palestinians and American Jews notwithstanding. Life for Palestinians is a daily atrocity. American Jews overwhelming vote democratic. The Democratic Party kisses the ring of the Israeli lobby as enthusiastically as the republicans.
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)freebrew
(1,917 posts)you do realize that there are PEOPLE, CITIZENS in this country that need help?
WRP had it right the first time...
ebbie15644
(1,215 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)bjo59
(1,166 posts)What a horror.
bjo59
(1,166 posts)Madmiddle
(459 posts)will be handed karma 10 fold. Israel is the reason for allthe hate in the middle east
Mosby
(16,319 posts)Your views have really strayed far from reality.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)A real dirt-bag.
Mosby
(16,319 posts)So what exactly makes Bibi a "far right fascist"?
Sure he is a "right winger" in a European sense, but there is nothing fascist about Israel's democracy, or the governments social and economic policies, in fact his government is trying to break up financial and real estate monopolies.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)Right!? And we're getting to elect a Pro War, Pro Corporate candidate.
Coincidence? I think not.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)I'm sure this will work out just fine.
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)Not that we peons have much say in anything any more! Phooey!
What other things will be coming down the pike? Don't support much during the tail end of this term.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)"We can't afford it" is the standard line. EXCEPT when it comes to supporting capitalism and empire. Then it's "money is no problem".
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)I mean really..............................why??????????????
We have public education being sold off to the highest bidder
We have roads and bridges, that have collapsed and are falling apart
We have drinking water that is undrinkable
Thats just for starters..........................
And Dylan Ratigan got it right.............................review again
Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
villager
(26,001 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)May I Please Please Please have the ecstasy of licking your boots? I will happily starve while you get fat. I will gleefully die for you too,
Wolf
William Seger
(10,778 posts)... which is about 25% of Israel's defense budget and about 55% of total US military aid. They'll be required to buy about $3B from US suppliers; the other $1B can be Israeli sources.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)this tail wags the {american] dog.
november3rd
(1,113 posts)that's what I call reason and foresight in diplomacy.
I say all military aid to belligerent countries has to gain prior approval by the UN Peacekeeping Office.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)"No need to install republicans when Democrats keep the money rolling in to the war machine!"
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Defense challenges my ass. The countries surrounding Israel hate them for their policies. Israel is just a puppet state of the U.S. anyway. Israel would not exist if it were not for U.S. support.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts):
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)I'm trying to keep informed but: So often I read things that do not compute. Why is this happening when so many here are suffering.
Our country is going to fail if we don't wake up and take care of our own.
I see no change in the status quo with some of the candidates. Four or 8 more years of this same old baloney? The prospects make me shudder.
The whole political situation leaves me speechless. President Obama, you have lost me.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)His parting gift is a whopper with a giant bow.
Duckfan
(1,268 posts)Among the other cluster fu**s.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)and above Belgium. It ranks 36th in global GDP, all with a population of around 6 million people. We subsidize every Israeli to the tune of around a $1000 dollars a year. That takes more than a third of our entire Foreign Aid budget besides the estimated $500,000,000 tax exempt donations made by American Zionist organizations every year. How much will it be after our political whores in Washington tack on another billion or two? If the government ups the Israel tribute to $5,000,000,000, it will amount to the cost of sending $100,000,000 dollars to every state. The whole thing is a shameful, stinking travesty and a national disgrace.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Reter
(2,188 posts)Sanders? I'd imagine all Democrats except Rand Paul.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)But hey, what's a Nobel Peace prize winner to do?
condoleeza
(814 posts)If Trump or Clinton are potus.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... just what is it the defense budget is defending?