Obama asks for additional aid to Israel; Congress triples it

[green73]

With a budget crunch threatening programs across the board, almost every spending request that hits Congress gets only partially filled. Unless you’re talking Israel.

The US was already sending $3.1 billion in military aid to Israel for 2014, and President Obama requested another $96 million for anti-missile systems. Congress took that number and tripled it (http://www.jta.org/2013/12/12/news-opinion/united-states/house-energy-committee-approves-cooperation-bill#.UqnRSM9ahdg.twitter).

Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014, Congress pledged another $284 million in funding for Israel. A separate bill is also pushing the administration for more “reviews” of whether or not they’re giving sufficient aid to Israel, seeking a full review every two years.

Experts say that Israel’s much-vaunted missile defense systems likely don’t work (http://news.antiwar.com/2013/03/12/mit-israels-iron-dome-success-likely-a-myth/) nearly as well as the official figures claim, and the Israeli military defunded them outright as not cost effective, which is why the US started bankrolling the program instead.

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/12/12/in-budget-crunch-congress-still-triples-aid-request-for-israel/

[green73]

nvm

[AngryCanadian]

Congress is sold out. :(

[enhanced_deficit]

To be devil's advocate, they did help SWC drone king with drone killing know-how, so he owes them a favor probably.

Israel's Pioneering Drones Led Way For US | The Jewish Week (http://www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/political-insider/israels-pioneering-drones-led-way-us)
www.thejewishweek.com/blogs/.../israels-pioneering-drones-led-way-us‎
Sep 1, 2013 - The U.S. Navy recently made a big publicity splash when it boasted that the operation of a stealth drone on an aircraft carrier in Chesapeake ...



But from American interests standpoint, all aid should have been cut off the day this video was leaked about treatment of Americans in Israel who don't abide by their police state:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXjJXtUgBVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXjJXtUgBVs

[Romulus]

And you thought we were broke... ahahaha! I mean, lets just give them everything and change our flag out.

[jkr]

"change our flag out"

might as well

we are A CONQUERED NATION

[Ronin Truth]

As Baron Rothschild says, "It's good to own the Congress".

[Brian4Liberty]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is working to help Holocaust survivors in the United States, many of them living in poverty, by coordinating assistance, working with aid groups and using diplomatic means to help recover property confiscated during the Nazi era.

Vice President Joe Biden announced the effort this week in a speech to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The administration says 100,000 Holocaust survivors are in the United States, and 25 percent live below the poverty level.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/obama-administration-holocaust-survivors_n_4428257.html

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Rabbi_Eckstein_red_wingback.jpg/467px-Rabbi_Eckstein_red_wingback.jpg

[enhanced_deficit]

United States, many of them living in poverty, by coordinating assistance, working with aid groups and using diplomatic means to help recover property confiscated during the Nazi era.


Does this mean DDK SWC political slave is working on getting land/homes confiscated from Palestinians returned too?