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Obama and Israel cut Congress out of the aid game
Washington Post ^ | September 14 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 09/14/2016 4:03:38 PM PDT by PghBaldy

As part of a 10-year U.S.-Israel security aid agreement, the Israeli government has signed a letter promising to give back any additional money that Congress appropriates, effectively preventing Congress from giving Israel any more money than President Obama wants it to have.

The White House will sign today a new 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Israel that would increase U.S.-Israel security aid from $3.1 billion a year to $3.3 billion, starting in 2018. The deal would also include, for the first time, $500 million of annual missile defense funding, bringing the annual total to $3.8 billion. But Congress, in its appropriations bill, has been planning to give Israel $3.4 billion, plus $600 million for missile defense, in 2017.

The Obama administration had been holding off on signing the deal until Congress reduced its funding to meet Obama’s proposed levels, but Congress refused to do so. So the administration pressed Israel to promise not to lobby for additional money. Israel agreed, but that wasn’t enough.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: congress; israelaid; israeldefense; mou; obama; obamaisrael
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I wonder why Bibi would agree to this? How did Obama threaten Israel?
1 posted on 09/14/2016 4:03:39 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

Watching for a 7 year protection covenant.

Advice, when that happens, find somewhere to go.


2 posted on 09/14/2016 4:10:26 PM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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To: lurk; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

[Watching for a 7 year protection covenant.]

Good note.

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. For that small percentage who are in Judea.


3 posted on 09/14/2016 4:14:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: PghBaldy

What if Congress sends the money on a pallet in an unmarked plane?


4 posted on 09/14/2016 4:18:52 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: PghBaldy

I have wondered for years why Bibi gives in to him all the time.


5 posted on 09/14/2016 4:19:15 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready)
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To: PghBaldy

No reason at all the next President cannot tear it up and sign a new deal.


6 posted on 09/14/2016 4:21:30 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: lurk
... find somewhere to go.

I have "reservations".

7 posted on 09/14/2016 4:23:27 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: ColdOne

Knowing Obama and his associates, I assume it is something awful. Threats of some kind.


8 posted on 09/14/2016 4:26:43 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

I wouldn’t doubt it.


9 posted on 09/14/2016 4:27:15 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton......unfit to serve, shovel ready)
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To: PghBaldy

Israel adopting to Trump and reminds me of the Jewish joke: “... the King may die, I may die, or the horse just might learn how to talk.


10 posted on 09/14/2016 4:37:14 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: PghBaldy
America first


11 posted on 09/14/2016 4:41:46 PM PDT by SwampFoxSC
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To: PghBaldy

An important note: aid to Israel often consists of loans, that Israel scrupulously repays. However, *beyond a certain point* such loans are often conditional. The US congress is not above trying to include conditions that Israel does not want.

So the Israelis may benefit from this by getting clean loans of a fixed amount that they can rely on.

A lot of speculation here, but it might explain why.


12 posted on 09/14/2016 4:44:02 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: PghBaldy

I would sure like to know just who in Congress or even the WH staff is pushing for stuff like this! It certainly doesn’t come from the brain of obozo as he doesn’t have a functioning one! We need to know WHO it is. The WH staff certainly isn’t innocent in most of what gets pushed from the Oval office or even from Congress!


13 posted on 09/14/2016 4:45:17 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: BwanaNdege; SkyPilot; DoughtyOne

Me too! ;)


14 posted on 09/14/2016 4:45:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: PghBaldy

means nothing.

is Trump wins,
he could void the agreement
with the stroke of a pen


15 posted on 09/14/2016 4:47:18 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: RockyTx

You are exactly correct.


16 posted on 09/14/2016 4:52:25 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: PghBaldy

Only good until January 2017 and then the it’s irrelevant.


17 posted on 09/14/2016 4:54:03 PM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: SaveFerris

No comment... “:^)


18 posted on 09/14/2016 4:56:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: DoughtyOne

I was hoping you’d jump on with

“Me three!”

;)


19 posted on 09/14/2016 4:59:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris
I don't talk about guns or locations, should I have either at a certain point in time.

":^)

But, Me three...

20 posted on 09/14/2016 5:02:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fifty-five days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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