Israel Hails US military Aid Rise
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and defence aid to Israel.
The package would reportedly amount to more than $30bn (£14.8bn) over the next 10 years.
Mr Olmert described it as an important element for the security of Israel.
Washington is reportedly preparing a package of major arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states because of concerns over Iran’s nuclear programme.
US defence aid to Israel currently stands at $2.4bn a year - the new package would amount to a 25% increase.
Mr Olmert said the aid had been agreed at a meeting with US President George W Bush in Washington last month.
Saudi arms deal
The BBC’s Bethany Bell in Jerusalem says the package is seen as an attempt to allay Israeli concerns over the planned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, reportedly worth $20bn (£9.8bn) over the next decade.
Defence officials quoted by US media said the sales would include advanced weaponry, missile guidance systems, upgraded fighter jets and naval ships.
Mr Olmert said the increased support was a sign of US commitment to maintain Israel’s military “advantage over the Arab states”.
“We understand the need of the US to assist the moderate Arab states which are in one front with the US and us in the fight against Iran, and on the other hand we appreciate the renewed and re-emphasised support for Israel’s military and security advantage,” he said.
© 2007 BBC News
Ain’t it a bitch our government sells 20 billion to SA [profit for boeing ect,ect] then to placate Is.give another 3 billion a year in tax payer money so they can buy arms form the same corps. Is it just me are this a dry fucking of us taxpayers and assure more war in the middle-east. What happened to we the people or is it sheeple?
And organizations like AIPAC think this arming of the Middle East is going to help Israel?
colleen - “And organizations like AIPAC think this arming of the Middle East is going to help Israel?”
No, The Common People of Israel will not see a dime of that aid money.
It will help the share holders of Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. They are the ones who will enjoy that extended military aid to Israel, thanks to the generosity of the American tax payer.
It is the fascinating logic of the United Corporations of America that we should give away $30 billion in taxpayer money to Israel to allow a $20 billion sale to go through with Saudi Arabia. Trivia Question: What single nation in the Middle East actually HAS weapons of mass destruction?
For more on the logic of selling arms to the country that provided the majority of the 9/11 hijackers, of claims that we can’t afford universal, free health care, or education for our citizens, please consider reading this article:
www.unknown-arts.org/politics/?p=126
More bulldozers to destroy more Palestinian villages.
Giving succour to terrorists.
The whole of the administration should be sent to Guantanamo, with the keys thrown away.
Well you know,when you don’t die to get stronger, and apparently you learn how to hide things better. I have a question to the Israelites, how does it feel to be on the over hide of the glass in a gas chamber? does it invigorate you like it did the Nazis, or make you sick that you had to stoop to their terrible level just to “cleanse” your holy land. I once felt sorry for what happened, but to learn the majority of the Jewish population in Israel approves of it, well that there, that just makes me sick.
The United States patterned its manifest destiny on the ethnic cleansing recorded, even boasted of, in the hebrew scriptures. The fight of the righteous Christians against the heathen was simply the same as the fight of the chosen people against the indigenous people of ancient Palestine writ large. The US will continue to use & assist Israel to decimate all the peoples in the vicinity of Palestine to the same status as our North American natives.
Only a general recognition, admission, and correction of the historical crime against the peoples of the Americas, and against the Africans who were brought to serve, would provide the spur to turn aside from this 21st century genocide.
Jesus taught slavery, genocide and economic rape right? That was the US policy interpretation of him anyway. I guess that comes right after love your enemies, and if they don’t love you back… well turn the other 2000 lb bomb!! Religion was here before governments… governments have supplanted them and now we must evolve past both.
The reality is that Jesus taught a way of life and he was a JEW. Other idiots created “christianity” in order to gain power and control over other people. Now you see the real connection between governments and religion and why they are NEVER seperate and also why we need neither!!!
Foxie - You are iether a full, or a a racist. There are no gas chambers or extermination camps in Israel / Palestine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada
During the Holocaust 9 Million people were murdered. 6 million of them were Jews, the rest were Gays, Russian P.O.W, Gypsies, Jehovah witness etc.
In comparison, during the 2nd Intefada, some 5,000 Palestinians were killed (At least half of them were carying weapons), along with 1,200 Israelis.
According to the EUMC (European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia), drawing comparison between Israel’s actions and those of the Nazis - is Anti-semitism.
Yeah and in Jasenovac also a lot of Serbs. And the Zionist movement didn’t exactly kept their hands clean, neither during WII, before it or after it, as by now has come to be well documented. But truth itself is antisemitic apparently, so we will keep the lid on that too.
Anyway, the world be glad to know that now Saudi-Arabia is semi-officially declared a moderate Arab state by the honorable war-criminal, mr. Olmert. Countries like Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, perhaps Jordan are completely different in this respect from say, Iran or Iran and perhaps Iran. (And M. Ahmadinejad is Hitler, did I mention this already, because this is a legitimate historical comparison, the EUMC won’t xenophobe the hell out of that one. And to complete the historical analogies, also Hitler at this moment are Chavez, Aristide - somewhat fading there - the eternal Castro, Assad, ofcourse bin Laden and his friends, and Nasrallah also was Hitler for a while there and who keeps count can fill in the rest.. or ask Rusmfeld.) Counter to Iran, these countries are moderate, almost democracies and well, just promising nations, mellow and moderate.
Israel most definitely is a moderate state. Who’d deny that? It’s even completely free and democratic when you are Jewish.
Yeah and in Jasenovac also a lot of Serbs. And the Zioni$t movement didn’t exactly kept their hands clean, neither during WII, before it or after it, as by now has come to be well documented. But truth itself is antisemitic apparently, so we will keep the lid on that too.
Anyway, the world be glad to know that now Saudi-Arabia is semi-officially declared a moderate Arab state by the honorable war-criminal, mr. Olmert. Countries like Saudi-Arabia, Egypt, perhaps Jordan are completely different in this respect from say, Iran or Iran and perhaps Iran. (And M. Ahmadinejad is Hitler, did I mention this already, because this is a legitimate historical comparison, the EUMC won’t xenophobe the hell out of that one. And to complete the historical analogies, also Hitler at this moment are Chavez, Aristide - somewhat fading there - the eternal Castro, Assad, ofcourse bin Laden and his friends, and Nasrallah also was Hitler for a while there and who keeps count can fill in the rest.. or ask Rusmfeld.) Counter to Iran, these countries are moderate, almost democracies and well, just promising nations, mellow and moderate.
Israel most definitely is a moderate state. Who’d deny that? It’s even completely free and democratic when you are Jewish.
And Jesus is a character in a myth. It’s a story-figure that has the historical reality of Robin Hood and like Robin Hood it wasn’t even a new idea, nor was it a single idea.
And it’s not only US, it’s arms sales from other countries. It’s going to take a sea change to wrest the world’s people from Mammon’s clutches and dedicate themselves to caring for God’s greatest gift, our planet.
We all know that reality has a known reputation of being anti-semitic. So you can’t really trust reality, much better to make your own.
Hey Moses Kassandra, which 9/11 hijackers are you referring too? The ones on the FBI list that are still alive today?
Oebi - the EUMC is a body that represent the European Union. (495,000,000 people).
So what is your point? That the Israeli Palestinian conflict IS identical to the Holocaust?
B.T.W - Unlike your comment, Israel is free toward all it’s citizens, Jews, and Non-Jews alike. Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship (1.2 Millions of them have it) have freedom of movement thought and expression. They can vote an be elected to the Knesset (The Israeli parliament). Actually, the only legal difference is that they do not have to serve in the Army, but I hardly call that discrimination.
vets:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13309
Don’t let the facts get in your way.
Vern,
Just to put the record straight, I did not let the fact get in the way. If you had read my comment carefully, you might have noticed that I wrote about the 1.2 Millions Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship.
The article you’ve posted is talking about the 3.5 Millions Palestinians who live in the occupied territories and does NOT have Israeli citizenship.
I hope the confution is cleared.
TIme for a single state in which the stateless Palestinians, product of Zionist zealotry, belatedly acquire citizenship.
And by the way, Vets, we know that it makes you feel better to deny reality, but non-Jewish Israelis do not possess equal rights. They can vote, and that’s it, as it makes no difference to their entrenched subordination on racial grounds. Apartheid is the word. Read Uri Davis’ book for starters.
Green Jello,
15 of the 19 that actually perormed the hijacking were Saudi Arabian. And, of course, ZERO were Iraqi.
No my point, vets, was the opposite of what you made of it. It was that half a century of Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Apartheid-system in the Jewish state - please take notice of what the “Jewish” in “Jewish state” means: because it doesn’t mean for example not-Jewish - are not to be compared to the Holocaust. Driving a DS-9 over a house with people still in it, is not the same as marching people off to an extermination camp.
Historical analogies are sometimes useful, but only if you draw factual conclusions from that, based on a thorough understanding of both. WWII has become a myth and the inexhaustible source of hyperbole rather than an historical event that lends itself for cold factual analysis to draw lessons from. And so neither should the Israeli’s constantly use Holocaust hyperbole to try to defend whatever national and international crimes they perpetrate.
Look at the ridiculous situation with Ahmedinejad, how they made a quote of Khomeini into a nuclear extermination threat. Holocaust all over, but now one in which the “nazi’s” collectively commit suicide. But no matter how mind-boggling the absurdity of that, they are deliberately selling a war using the Holocaust as a rethorical tool. They are cynically selling mass-murder over the backs of the victims of Auschwitz.
Does the EUMC have problem with that? No ofcourse not. By the way, the EUMC isn’t a body that represents anyone and like anything other in the EU it is carefully shielded from the influence of citizens of the what they call EU nations.
I voted against the whole concept of the EU when I got the chance. When they saw that the majorities, in those few countries where they even allowed a referendum, were dead against the EU, they announced to immediately stop referendums. They came up with another idea: a preferendum. Now you can choose between voting in favor of something they want, or you can vote “yes.” The concept of “representation” does not apply to any EU body.
Wrong vets.
Read it again.
Vern - I read the document again, You are right that there are a few paragraph that talks about Arab Israeli citizens. I’m now convinced that the article is using lies in order to try and prove it’s hate agenda (That Israel is an Apartheid state).
Claim: “…Second class citizens are exempted from military service and from a number of the benefits accorded citizens of the first class.”
- Not being forced into compulsory Army service is NOT a discrimination. Also, Arab Israelis can volunteer for Army service if they want. Many do.
Claim: “They are issued identity documents and license plates that allow them to be profiled by police at a distance.”
- All Israeli citizen are issued identity documents.
- Different, distinguished license plates for Israeli citizen of different ethnic group - This is simply a pure blunt lie, easy to be disproved.”
Claim; “Second class citizens may not own land in much of the country and marriages between them and first class citizens are not recognized by the state. ”
- Bullsheet. Arabs Israelis can legally buy any land and legally marry anyone they want (Even Jews).
The only legal restriction is that if they marry a citizent of a state which is in a state of war with Israel - the spouse is not always allowed to immigrate to Israel.
If the article wants to sell the idea that Israel is an Apartheid state - They will have better chance to succeed if not revert to easily disproved lies.
Funding terrorism in the name of fighting terrorism
The corporations steal the money
The Israelis steal the land
in the name of “freedom”
the freedom to kill & steal at will if you are a corporation, a white American or an Israeli…the Axis of Evil - The Trilogy of Master Races
Peace Warrior - “The Israelis steal the land”
“white American or an Israeli…the Axis of Evil”
I have relatives in Israel. They payed good money for the land they have their home is on. They stole land from no one.
You have mych hate in you Peace Warrior. Racial hate to white Americans, and to All Israelies. Some of them have commited no crime.
Racial Hate is the path to the dark side.