US Defence Chief Seeks To Reassure Israel On Military Aid
Source: Channel News Asia
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon's new chief held talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday and pledged to ensure US budget cuts have no effect on funding for military assistance to the Jewish state, officials said.
In his first meeting with a foreign counterpart as the newly minted US defence secretary, Hagel chose to host Barak after facing allegations from some senators that he was too tough on Israel and naive in his views on Iran.
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"Secretary Hagel expressed his strong commitment to Israel's security, including maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge and continued US support for missile and rocket defence systems in spite of fiscal constraints," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement.
Hagel "is committed to working with members of Congress to ensure that there is no interruption of funding for Iron Dome, Arrow, and David's Sling rocket and missile defence systems, despite the fiscal uncertainty due to congressional inaction" on the automatic budget cuts and a proposed defence budget, said a defence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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magic59
(429 posts)NOT!
Agreed
ProgressiveJarhead
(172 posts)Yes.
Mutatis Mutandis
(90 posts)
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)
Got your place picked out yet?
Looks like this child has his place picked picked out
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)ProgressiveJarhead
(172 posts)Aid to Jordan, Turkey, and where else? Just fucking blame Israel? Does that make you feel better? Get a fucking grip!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)so I can tell you (after over 10 years here) that Israel gets treated as a very special case and is held to a standard that no other country is held to. It's maddening but if you just realize that the people here are not the ones making policy and represent a small minority of Americans, it'll roll right off your back. Welcome to DU.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)and it's completely undeserved.
There's a group on DU that believes it is much worse to talk about Israel's bad behavior than for Israel to commit the bad behavior in the first place. That shows an extreme bias.
You can make all the excuses you want - what I posted was the truth.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)but Israel deserves significant criticism.
Pound-for-pound, Israel causes more trouble in this world than just about any nation; and the US chooses Israel to receive far more special treatment than any other nation. That's just wrong.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Yep the op is about aid to Israel. What's it like to be a rocket scientist?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)The war machine will be fed.
All it due time.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)right before Obama and Kerry's big trip. Just ain't gonna happen.
Steviehh
(115 posts)Students and teachers can lose their funding, roads don't need to be repaired. Israel first.
Kinda shocking.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)It fills me with such joy that a foreign nation, and other nations(?), will continue to enjoy the benefit of US treasure, while shiftless and lazy Americans get their just deserts. Why should Americans need a safety net when we can give somebody else an iron dome?
Oh.
