And would you like to explain why Obama has offered Israel 40 billion
dollars for the next ten years? And, by the way, Israel has refused the
offer because it isn't enough.
Miriam
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ISRAEL'S YEARLY ASSISTANCE!!!
These 83 US Senators did not wake up one morning and say, "Gee, what the US
needs to do is to shuffle off another pile of money to help Israel defend
Freedom in the Middle East."
Somehow they heard the twiddling of the pipers, playing the favorite tunes
of the duly elected Senators. The words to that tune go something like,
"There is money in my campaign war chest if I back old Israel. And all the
Jews in my district will sing praises to me. And when the election comes
and goes, I'll still be sitting here. And I can tell you from long years of
experience that the American Workers will never miss a dime of the money we
take from them." And by the way, not that any senator would be suicidal
enough to suggest it, but just try taking money away from the Pentagon and
see what happens.
I swear that our American Oligarchy has been taken over by a bloodless coup
by the Pentagon.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/29/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
assistance of all needs?
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Haaretz April 28, 2016
ABOUT 83 U.S.SENATORS VOTING TO INCREASE ISRAEL'S YEARLY ASSISTANCE!!!
America's 83 Ignoramuses Are Enabling Destruction by Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.716703
HAARETZ - By Gideon Levy - The 83 U.S. senators who urged the
president to increase military assistance to Israel are 83 ignoramuses
and their letter is a disgrace. Israel of all countries? Military
fit.
Increasing military aid won't add one iota of security to Israel,
which is armed to the teeth. It will harm Israel. Those 83 out of 100
senators base their extraordinary demand on "Israel's dramatically
rising defense challenges."
What are they talking about? What "rising challenges"? The rise in the
use of kitchen knives as a deal-breaking weapon in the Middle East?
The challenge for one of the world's strongest armies to survive
against young girls brandishing scissors? Hamas' tunnels in the sand?
Hezbollah, which is bleeding in Syria? Iran, which has taken a new path?
It's time they expanded their narrow view and reduced the enormous aid
they shower on Israel's arms industry - one of the world's largest
weapons exporters - and its army.
The United States is allowed, of course, to waste its money as it sees
But one may ask, senators, if it makes sense to invest more fantasticdeal.
sums to arm a military power when tens of millions of Americans still
have no health insurance and your senate is tightening its purse
strings despite the challenges of climate change.
A world power is arming a regional power as part of a corrupt, rotten
Your money, senators, is largely being spent on maintaining a brutal,
illegal occupation that your country claims to oppose - but finances.
The weapons you provide are for a brazen state that dares defy America
more than any of its allies does. It ignores America's advice and even
humiliates its president. It gets twice the aid you give Egypt, an
ally that needs the money much more. It's three times more than you
give Afghanistan, which is devastated in part because of you.
It's almost four times more than you give Jordan, which is in a
precarious state due to refugees and the Islamic State. To Vietnam,
which you destroyed, you gave $121 million, and to Laos, which you
ruined, $15 million. Impoverished Liberia received $156 million and
awakening, liberated South Africa $490 million.
But for Israel, even $3 billion a year isn't enough. It gets more than
any other country in the world yet insists on $4 billion, not a cent
less, including an unconditional commitment for a decade.
If you've already decided to pour such huge sums on Israel, why on its
army of all things? Have you seen what its hospitals look like? And if
you're financing weapons, why not condition it on the only democracy
in the region's appropriate behavior?
What do you have over there in the world's most important legislature?
An automatic signing machine for letters supporting Israel? An ATM for
the Jewish lobby's every whim?
Only 17 of 100 senators were courageous enough, or bothered to think
for a moment, before they signed another scandalous venture by AIPAC
and the Israeli Embassy.
More money to arm Israel will end in blood. It must end in blood.
There are old weapons that must be used and new weapons that must be
tried (and then sold to Azerbaijan and Ivory Coast).
This destructive, murderous force will fall again on devastated houses
in Gaza, and America will finance it all once again. The money will
also corrupt Israel. If this is the prize for its refusal to make
peace and its flouting of international law, why shouldn't it behave
this way? Uncle Sam will pay.
The senators who signed the letter didn't act for either their
country's good or Israel's. It's doubtful whether they know what they
signed. It's doubtful whether they know what the real situation is.
Maybe among them are people of conscience or people familiar with
their country's national interests. But the blood money will serve
neither those interests nor morality
