On December 5, 2014, the Jewish Daily Forwardreported that during a business meeting between Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and his American counter-part Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon in October 2014, US defense department agreed to sell additional 14-F35As to Israel for $2 billion.
Hagel at the Pentagon in October 2014, US defense department agreed to sell additional 14-F35As to Israel for $2 billion.
“It’s just part of a long term deal that includes a 2010 purchase of 19 warplanes (which won’t arrive until 2016) for $2.75 billion and maintains option of purchasing 17 more in the future,” said Yael Even Ro.
What the cunning Zionist Jew writer ignored to mention that the Zionist regime is paying $4.75 billion for the purchase of 50 America’s most advanced jets, comes from US-taxpayers pockets. The US provides $3 billion + annual military aid to Israel on the condition that 75% of it would be used to buy American military hardware.
As that was not a joke enough. Yael also reported that in return for this new deal, America’s top arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin has agreed to buy $6 billion worth of security equipment from Israel. I’m sure some readers must have heard the idiom: Have Your Cake, and Eat it Too!
On August 8, 2014, Professor Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) in an article said: “By sending vast amounts of military aid to Israel, members of the Congress, President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel have aided and abetted the commission of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity by Israeli officials and commanders in Gaza. An individual can be convicted of a war crime, genocide or crime against humanity in the International Criminal Court (ICC) if he or she “aids, abets or otherwise assists” in the commission or attempted commission of the crime “including providing the means for its commission.”
According to the Congressional Research Service, in 2007, the Bush Administration agreed to provide Israel with $30 billion in military assistance from 2009 to 2018, provided in annual increments of $3.1 billion. During his March 2013 visit to Israel, Obama pledged that the US would continue to provide Israel with multi-year commitments of military aid subject to the approval of Congress.
Since 2012, the US has donated $276 million worth of weapons and munitions to Israel, not including exports of military transport equipment and high technologies. From January to May 2014, the US transferred to Israel almost $27 million for rocket launchers, $9.3 million worth of parts of guided missiles and nearly $762,000 for bombs, grenades and munitions of war.
On July 20, 2014, Israel requested additional ammunition, including 140mm tank rounds and 40mm illumination grenades, and the Defense Department approved the sale three days later. It came from a $1 billion stockpile of ammunition the US military stores in Israel for that country’s use; it is called War Reserve Stockpile Ammunition-Israel. In early August 2014, both houses of Congress overwhelmingly passed, and Obama signed, an appropriation of $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome aka Dumb Dome missile defense system, which has also been used in Gaza. The Senate vote was unanimous. With no debate, the House of Representatives voted 395 to 8 to approve the deal.
James M. Wall, journalist and editor of the Christian Century magazine has more on this story here.
