Bush pledges to increase US funding to Israel

[Scurrilous]

Source: Ynetnews

US to bolster economic aid to Israel in new 10-year agreement, says US President Bush after meeting with Prime Minister Olmert

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"In a White House statement issued following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington, President George W. Bush pledged to increase US military aid to Israel over the course of the next decade.

An American team will land in Israel in July to finalize the deal. Israel currently receives an annual $2.4 billion in military aid.

"I am strongly committed to Israel's security and viability as a Jewish state, and to the maintenance of its qualitative military edge," said Bush in the statement."

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"The deal Bush seeks to finalize would commence in 2009 and would remain valid for 10 years. Olmert's office declined comment on the specific amounts being discussed."




Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3415479,00.html

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"A few months ago, Israel submitted a request to raise the annual sum by 25 percent over 10 years, from $2.4 billion to $3b."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813057221&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[laylah]

1. God/dess forbid the SOB

would increase funding to the American people. :mad: What a POS!

[angstlessk]

2. Vowing to VETO too much spending on Americans...but increase

AID..that is money given with no attachments...to ISRAEL??? WFT???? THEY ARE A RICHER COUNTRY PER CAPITA THAN WE ARE!!

[rodeodance]

11. their economy is booming-selling terror services.

[pwb]

3. i just read somewhere on d u that israel is the third largest arms exporter.in the world?

wtf? over.

[rodeodance]

12. the US had to turn to Israel for Bullets

[BOSSHOG]

4. Why aren't Israeli Troops fighting in Iraq?

[Megahurtz]

18. Good Question.

They talk the talk but they don't walk the walk. All they want is our money!!!:mad:

[LeftishBrit]

29. So let's see:

If Israel fights a war, like last year in Lebanon, they are blamed for their hawkishness and violence (For the record: I was strongly against that war, and did blame them on that occasion.)

If they don't fight a war, then they are blamed for 'talking the talk and not walking the walk'.

If the UK sends troops to Bush's Iraq war, then they are blamed (rightly) for being collaborators in an illegal war.

If Israel doesn't send troops to Bush's Iraq war, then 'they only want America's money'.

I have no opinion about how much aid America should or shouldn't be giving Israel, or any country; but some of the comments are getting to sound like an automatic blaming of Israel for everything.

[LeftishBrit]

28. I believe, because the Americans asked them not to

[BOSSHOG]

30. I choose

not to blame Israel for anything. I'd love to see peace break out in the middle east for about 100 thousand years, but if any country benefits from our being in Iraq it is Israel. I can understand why the US doesn't want them involved militarily, but covert support in some other manner is warranted and may be taking place.

[LeftishBrit]

34. The war also endangers Israel, along with other Middle Eastern countries

The country was very divided on the issue before the war, with more against an Iraqi war than for it.

No doubt there is some collaboration between the governments however; and I daresay that the idiot Olmert is just as high up Bush's arse as Tony Blair and John Howard are- how does he ever find so much room for all these people there!

[mallard]

40. Re: it's no wonder...

.. the neocons are taking full advantage of their influence in the current regime to extend and increase aid to Israel before they lose absolute power in the next election.

This again is not in America's best interest, but that's hardly news.

[billyoc]

5. Prolly usin' all that there stem cell research money.

Culture of life!

[snappyturtle]

6. I do not understand this funding. Is Israel a third world nation? nt

[azurnoir]

7. Well of course he is

It is a payoff for playing "see no evil" in the Palestinian political coup we are financing. Also it forces the next President to either continue the payments or face the shrieks of Antisemitism should he/she decide to cut funding a win/win for Bush and Co, but the "best" is yet to come I fear.

[acmavm]

8. This just figures.

[DrDan]

9. miltary aid provided by Halliburton by any chance???

[pocoloco]

10. aipac in action!

fuck the USA

[Megahurtz]

16. Agreed.

:mad:

[aquart]

13. That's nice, George. Did you cut the vets for it?

Let me know when you give a little to the Americans.

Not that I am, as all know, against supporting Israel, but if he thinks this will impress me? Uh, no.

[Megahurtz]

17. Well I'M Against Supporting Israel.

They have enough money to take care of their own asses.:argh:

We in the U.S. don't!!! :mad:

[aquart]

23. Really? Because all the Jews are so very, very rich, I take it?

Where, pray tell, is this fabulous wealth coming from, my ever-so-well-informed friend?

[Megahurtz]

37. You Tell Me.

You seem to know. :think:

[Alexander]

24. Even against Hamas?

I like having stable liberal democracies, myself.

[The Stranger]

26. Well that sure isn't Israel, except maybe in the sense Apartheid South Africa was a democracy.

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. Even Dennis Kucinich unequivocally supports Israel

[Nihil]

35. Errare humanum est. (n/t)

:shrug:

[badgervan]

14. Merde

And the march to Armeggedon continues.

[LiberalFighter]

15. What do we get out of this funding?

[Alexander]

19. Why?

We're going bankrupt over here. That makes no sense.

[pas11]

20. Question re "Polarized America"

If every American were to convert to Judaism do you suppose that we could get some of that money for things like, ya know, schools, nursing homes, day care centers, public transportation . . . stuff like that?

[Alexander]

21. No, silly.

That stuff is all un-American pinko commie shit.

Never mind that the kibbutz is the best example of how Marxist communism works in practice.

:eyes:

[classysassy]

22. Justice

missing in action.

[IndianaGreen]

25. I don't want my tax money to go to Israel, or to any of the Middle East oligarchs

We should get the Hell out of that region!

[Megahurtz]

36. Me Either.

Our Tax Money is best used here at home and we need to get our noses
out of other Country's business and focus on this Country and it's people for a change.

[davidthegnome]

27. Not surprising

Not at all. Same shit, different year.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

32. This would be the center-piece of the peace process: arms & bombs.

:banghead:

[0007]

33. ........military aid?

2.4 billion per year......OMFG that would clean up an awful lot of ghettos here in the U.S.

[entanglement]

38. The Jerusalem Post questions the need for continuing aid to Israel

Haven't seen our MSM do that anytime

[ShortnFiery]

39. Answer is *perpetual bloody war* for Big Oil and Israel. Time to cue The Four Horseman?

Don't BITCH American Citizens: The Stock Market is Up. :eyes: