The US gives Israel over $3bn a year in military aid
Submitted by tapu dali on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 9:01pm
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/31/as-israel-prospers-obama-set-to-give...
but Netanyahu says, “Not enough”.
And Ms Clinton, should (likely when) she become President, will probably go along with that.
Does that make you happy?
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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
3B/year ==
8,219,178.08 per day.
Every day. Day in and day out.
For the apartheid state of Israel.
When will we ever learn?
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
That's the way the US supports our companies
that produce arms. We don't have to start as many wars this way.
Hell, I'm old enough to remember when foreign aid
was spent on things that are now passe'. You know, like food, schools, hospitals, roads. But hey, it's a neoliberal world out there and the good ol' U S of A is drivin' the train!.
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
No. It isn't a happy time statistic
in my house.
What are we doing?
Why are we doing it?
Is this the best use of our treasure?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The graphic says it all,
far more dramatically than any mere listing of numbers could do.
"best use of our treasure"?
What about the $X tr flushed away by Near East adventures, together with the (hundreds of) thousands of American and local lives lost?
"When will they ever learn ..."
W, Obama, Trump, Clinton ... they're all the same.
I remember a political slogan form the Anarchist Party (of Canada) about 30 y ago: "Don't Vote -- they're all the same."
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
And if you think there is something rather
oxymoronic about an "Anarchist Party" --- it is what it is.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
I include soldiers
as "treasure"... just so everyone is clear on that score.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
War criminals paying off other war criminals
This is just a tip of the iceberg of the suffering and death America has causedpeople around the world.
Gaza: The Last Picture
Shujayea: Massacre at Dawn
From the Light House.
Why? I have asked this question many times
But haven't gotten an answer.
What gives our government the right to give away our money to foreign countries while they gut social programs here in our country?
I'm aware that no one can get elected to congress unless they kiss AIPAC's as, but why is Israel so important to our government?
Israel is behind most of the wars in the Middle East, but they don't send any of their military to fight alongside our troops, nor do they pay for any of them.
Can someone please explain why Israel is the 51st country?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
You probably meant to ask,
"why is Israel the 51st state"?
Actually, the US appears to be an extrapolation of Israel, rather than v.v.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
It is the Christians
They've got to protect Israel until it can be destroyed in the Apocalypse, or something like that.
A home land for the dispossessed Jews after WW2 may make some sense, but we should have given them a reservation in Wyoming instead of letting the Stern Gang terrorists loose on the Palestinians.
Of course, it is much easier to give someone else's homeland of centuries away, and then wag a finger at how they aren't willing to share when they are forcibly dispossessed (and/or murdered).
why Israel is so fucking important to the US Government
Cult, amice. Specifically, the Puritan Protestant Evangelical cult, which wouldn't be able to keep itself in its
griftbusiness without a continuous flow of trumped-up fear based on Patmos John's Bad Acid Trip ("Revelation") in the Christian Bible.Only once we break the ultimate "glass ceiling" and actually elect a non-believing President and Congressional majority will we be able to break the thrall AIPAC holds over us.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Damn
we got kind of close.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
... Netanyahu says, “Not
Unfortunately, it's not 'probably'; she already has promised far more.
(If possible, please read in full at source.)
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/09/hillary-clinton-goes-militaristic-ha...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Excellent article Ellen
And her supporters Insist that she is NOT a warmonger!
Good lord, if that speech isn't the definition of warmongering, just what do they think is?
Now imagine if Trump or Cheney had given this speech.
There would be diary after diary on DK stating that Cheney has to be stopped from becoming president.
I can not wrap my head around their willful blindness to who Hillary is.
There are diaries daily about which republican has endorsed her and they are happy to have them on board.
They say that it's because they don't want trump to become president because he's so scary l
Jesus, I can figure out why people like Kagan, Paulson, active generals and other republicans are endorsing her.
Kagan and the generals are endorsing her because her foreign policy aligns with theirs. More deaths and destruction in the Middle East, Russia and China.
Paulson and the other republicans in the financial industry endorsed her instead of Trump because Paulson said that Trump wouldn't agree to privatize social security.
The Clintons have been in bed with the banks for over 25 years starting with Bill being governor of Arkansas, his presidency, Hillary's senate run, the page d speeches Bill started giving to them after they left the WH broke but was given a $2 million dollar loan so that they could buy their house, Hillary's paid speeches and they repaid them 20 fold when Bill deregulated the banks and many other bills that he passed with Hillary's help.
We already saw the damage that they did to this country and the Middle East and other countries.
Bill almost achieved privatizing social security and Hillary will finally achieve what so many people have wanted since it was created.
Hillary has already shown that she is a threat to humanity while she was SOS. I don't want to imagine what she will accomplish if she is president.
This country had probably the last chance to try to turn around the direction this country has been on for far too long, but people, the DNC, people in our government stole it from us.
God help us in this country and God help the world if she becomes president.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Here are two articles on the connection between the Clintons
and the banks and how they scratched each other's backs.
I don't know when was the last time, if ever, our government worked for us instead of the banks and the corporations.
Anyone have any examples?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/the-clintons-and-wall-street-24-y...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/16/the-clintons-93-million-romance-w...
And Hillary says this and her supporters believe that she is telling the truth.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
dafuq?
Why would Wall Street donate $6 million to her '06 campaign, when she had Some Guy as opposition?
(I suspect because it wasn't a donation so much as an investment. Draw your own conclusions.)
You keep using that word...
“Foreign influence on the U.S. political process”
Spreading paranoia about Putin or whoever, when the elephant in the room is Netanyahu.
^^^bingo!^^^ (n/t)
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and Foreign Aid
Israel is not a member of the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and refuses to become one.
It is entirely prohibited by the Symington Amendment to give any kind of foreign aid to any state that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by the Symington Amendment (Section 669 of the FAA) in 1976. It banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive, acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections. This provision, as amended, is now contained in Section 101 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).
It seems our traitor government has completely overlooked legislation which is not beneficial to their benefactors. The benefactors most obviously being the israeli/jewish subverters of the nation. At least the manipulators have gotten one thing right, they no longer deny the DOCUMENTED FACT that israel is a nuclear capable country, not peaceful either. Since it is so obvious that it is absolutely never mentioned, what are we to make of this? What control of our own politicians do the citizens of the United States not possess that the israeli and American jewish subverters do possess?
credit for content to (edited): https://nationalconscience.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/the-illegality-of-fo...
Peace
FN
"Democracy is technique and the ability of power not to be understood as oppressor. Capitalism is the boss and democracy is its spokesperson." Peace - FN
Isreal is the biggest impediment to peace in the Middle East
Israel keeps taking land from the Palestinians while blockading them and killing them for throwing rocks. We just keep giving them more and more "aid" while they refuse to make a permanent peace with their neighbors. Every time a Palestinian child is shot, ISIS and Al Qaida get more recruits. We could easily use this international welfare to influence Israel but we just keep giving them more and more like a poor parent rewarding a petulant, spoiled child for outrageous behavior. I yearn for the day when religion is truly separated from politics.
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
Oh, I know, right?
Israeli nationalism, walls-and-checkpoints border management, discrimination against Arabs, and dehumanization of “the other” in general make Trump’s ideas look timid and ho-hum.
Yet so many folks we do (or at least, until this campaign season, did) count as on the side of the angels — Democrats, liberals, progressives, or whatever the word of the day is — have been 110% behind that stuff for decades, even going so far as to starve needs at home to fund it.
Go figure.
Disgusting comments in here
This is my only BIG problem with the left.
One of the oldest, if not oldest forms of bigotry in the world and it is ACCEPTED by the left ....
Antisemitism
When I was a kid, Republicans used to red scare people, now it's the Democrats. I am getting too damn old for this crap!
Where, exactly, in here are such comments?
Please be specific. Thanks!
Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism
I'm not going to give you a history lesson on how Zionists have perverted the definition of antisemitism to fit their needs, but I needed to get this off my chest.
"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history." ~ Czesław Miłosz
I've done this here before,
and if it's not allowed, I apologise, but
Thumbs down on this Comment.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.
It's bullshit
they're just as awful as we are, so I'm not surprised we're propping them up.
But I'm sick and tired of propping up other regimes when there are homeless, hungry and hurting people here at home. Sick and tired of it.
Israel's got nukes
Think, we're defending a country that has nukes. Remind me why we need to support them again? (rhetorical question)
Israel's Worst Kept Secret
For geopolitical reasons, though,
The US refuses to acknowledge this fact.
There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.