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US Taxpayer Pays 25% of Israel's Defense Budget & List US Politicians Who Hold Dual US/Israeli Citizenship
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 20:53
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Part I
A Reminder: U.S. Pays One Quarter of Israel’s Defense Budget
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
(graphic: AllGov)
With Capitol Hill abuzz over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance before Congress this week, there is no time like the present for a refresher on how much the American taxpayers spend on Israel’s defense.
If it wasn’t for Washington’s longtime commitment to bolstering the Israel Defense Forces, Netanyahu and Israeli lawmakers would have a serious shortfall on their hands.
After all, the U.S. funds about 25% of Israel‘s annual spending on its military, thanks to $3 billion a year in aid.
“Since it was founded in 1948, Israel has become the largest single recipient of U.S foreign assistance — a total of $121 billion, almost all of which has been in the form of military assistance,” Brandon Ward wrote at Journalist’s Resource, citing a 2014 Congressional Research Service report (U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel [pdf]).
Among the items funded by the United States is Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system. The 2015 budget allows $175.9 million for the system on top of $234 million in 2014 and $704 million in the years before that, according to the report.
The really big-ticket item is a purchase of 19 F-35 fighter planes financed with a $2.75 billion grant. The planes were supposed to have been delivered this year, but problems with the F-35 program have pushed the delivery date to 2016 or 2017.
US Politicians Who Hold Dual US/Israeli Citizenship
August 18, 2014
“If Americans were ever polled on it—and they never are—the majority who now object to increasing aid to Israel would also likely object to quasi-governmental and governmental positions being staffed by people who—by citizenship or sheer strength of identity politics—are primarily occupied with advancing Israeli interests rather than those of the United States. It is obvious that the real reason AIPAC and its economic luminaries such as Fischer never substantiate any of the advertised benefits the U.S.-Israel “special relationship” delivers to America in return for all of the costs is simple—there simply aren’t any. As greater numbers of Americans become aware that the entire “special relationship” framework is sustained by nothing more than Israel lobby campaign-finance and propaganda networks, the harder the lobby will have to work… In the very short term, Americans can only fight such undue Israel lobby influence by again—like during the drive to attack Syria—staging a mass action to demand their senators reject Stanley Fischer’s nomination,” Grant Smith, IRMEP
Past and Present:
1. Attorney General – Michael Mukasey 2. Head of Homeland Security – Michael Chertoff 3. Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Richard Perle 4. Deputy Defense Secretary (Former) – Paul Wolfowitz 5. Under Secretary of Defense – Douglas Feith 6. National Security Council Advisor – Elliott Abrams 7. Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff (Former) – “Scooter” Libby 8. White House Deputy Chief of Staff – Joshua Bolten 9. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – Marc Grossman 10. Director of Policy Planning at the State Department – Richard Haass 11. U.S. Trade Representative (Cabinet-level Position) – Robert Zoellick 12. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – James Schlesinger 13. UN Representative (Former) – John Bolton 14. Under Secretary for Arms Control – David Wurmser 15. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Eliot Cohen 16. Senior Advisor to the President – Steve Goldsmith 17. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Christopher Gersten 18. Assistant Secretary of State – Lincoln Bloomfield 19. Deputy Assistant to the President – Jay Lefkowitz 20. White House Political Director – Ken Melman 21. National Security Study Group – Edward Luttwak 22. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Kenneth Adelman 23. Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst (Former) – Lawrence (Larry) Franklin 24. National Security Council Advisor – Robert Satloff 25. President Export-Import Bank U.S. – Mel Sembler 26. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families – Christopher Gersten 27. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs – Mark Weinberger 28. White House Speechwriter – David Frum 29. White House Spokesman (Former) – Ari Fleischer 30. Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board – Henry Kissinger 31. Deputy Secretary of Commerce – Samuel Bodman 32. Under Secretary of State for Management – Bonnie Cohen 33. Director of Foreign Service Institute – Ruth Davis 34. Federal Reserve Chair – Janet Yellen 35. Federal Reserve Vice-Chair – Stanley Fischer
Current (and past) Members of Senate:
Representative Gary Ackerman (New York)
Representative John H. Adler (New Jersey)
Representative Shelley Berkley (Nevada)
Representative Howard Berman (California)
Representative Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
Representative Susan Davis (California)
Representative Eliot Engel (New York)
Representative Bob Filner (California)
Representative Barney Frank (Former) (Massachusetts)
There are no better people to run America than European American people. European peoples should be able to organize and advance their own interests just like every other group.