Skip to comments.
US to Israel: No financial aid for war (JPost)
JPost ^
| August 22, 2006
| Herb Keinon
Posted on 08/21/2006 10:07:20 PM PDT by jdm
Washington has let Jerusalem know that for now Israel should not expect any financial aid to help defray the cost of the war in Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
According to sources in Jerusalem, the government was considering requesting US aid - one report estimated a request of $2 billion - to help pay the cost of the war. There was talk in Washington of a large-scale financial package to help rebuild southern Lebanon, and in the process keep the Iranians out of the process. Israel was apparently hoping to fold its aid request into this package.
However, according to the sources, Washington has made it clear to Jerusalem that such aid for Israel is unlikely, even as US President George Bush on Monday announced a $230 million aid package for southern Lebanon.
"Things could change," the source said, "but right now this type of request would be like spitting into the wind."
Suggestions that Israel was going to ask for $2b. come in the wake of reports last summer that Israel was going to ask for a similar amount of aid from the Bush administration to pay some of the cost of disengagement from Gaza and the resettlement of the evacuees. That number was later trimmed down to $1b., and then in July, just before the disengagement began, Finance Minister director-general Yossi Bachar went to Washington and put in a request for $500 million.
Israel, however, shelved the request indefinitely following Hurricane Katrina last August that devastated New Orleans, amid the realization that the disaster caused billions of dollars of damage and that it would not look good at that time for Israel to be asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to help house its displaced population, when the US had its own displaced population to worry about.
In a related development, Globes reported that Washington had extended the US loan guarantees by three years until 2011. Israel has still not yet used $4.6 billion of the $9 billion program, which began in 2003, and - according to the paper - extending the program will make it easier for Israel to raise financing for the war in Lebanon on international markets.
TOPICS: Israel; Miscellaneous; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; aid; israel; us
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-30 next last
1
posted on
08/21/2006 10:07:21 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: jdm
However, according to the sources, Washington has made it clear to Jerusalem that such aid for Israel is unlikely, even as US President George Bush on Monday announced a $230 million aid package for southern Lebanon.
Well, with buds like us, who needs enemies?
The major problem with the Lebanese help is that most of the damage was done to Hezbollah related installations. Now we'll be footing their bills. Charming...
Please someone, please remind me how Israel won this round. I'm all ears.
This oughta will teach Hezbollah a lesson they'll never forget!
2
posted on
08/21/2006 10:14:34 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
To: jdm
Screw Southern Lebanon, they made their bed, let them sleep in it!
3
posted on
08/21/2006 10:22:01 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(LET ME DIE ON MY FEET, IN MY SWAMP, BUAIDH NO BAS)
To: jdm
Total PR. Iz will get their money. This is short term Arab butt kissing by State.
4
posted on
08/21/2006 10:38:47 PM PDT
by
zarf
To: jdm
To: jdm
Swell. Anonymous sources.
6
posted on
08/21/2006 11:49:25 PM PDT
by
onyx
(1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
To: jdm
and yet :
"a $230 million aid package for southern Lebanon."
Give me a break! We are trying again to pay off the weak kneed coddlers of our enemies ,while ignoring the needs of our true allies?
Lebanon needs to prove that it deserves our help by eliminating Hezzbollah from power there altogether.
The US should seize all Iranian and Syrian assets that they can get and GIVE them to Israel and Israelis .
When are we going to get back in the business of punishing our enemies instead of trying to buy them off?
They take our money with one hand and stab us in the back with the other.
I am quickly loosing faith in this Admin.
To: jdm
However, according to the sources, Washington has made it clear to Jerusalem that such aid for Israel is unlikely, even as US President George Bush on Monday announced a $230 million aid package for southern Lebanon.Why doesn't the U.S. just come out and say that no one is to fight the war on terror except the U.S.
8
posted on
08/22/2006 12:36:33 AM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: zarf
Total PR. Iz will get their money. This is short term Arab butt kissing by State Very accurate and astute insight...
To: jdm
How can we possibly help Israel when all our money is going to countries that want to destroy it?
To: conservativecorner
How can we possibly help Israel when all our money is going to countries that want to destroy it? How can we possibly help Israel when all our money is going to countries that want to destroy it us?
11
posted on
08/22/2006 5:10:17 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Any aid to the Arab world should be delivered 500 lbs at a time - from 40,000 feet.)
To: jdm
W is sending Lebanon $230,000,000????
WTF?
12
posted on
08/22/2006 5:15:42 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. also
2006israelwar or WOT
..................
13
posted on
08/22/2006 7:07:20 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
To: DoughtyOne
Israel will get the money, do not have a knee jerk reaction.
14
posted on
08/22/2006 7:57:32 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: LeoWindhorse
Do you expect the Administration to say publicly that we are going to pay Israel 2 billions dollars for the cost of war against Hizballah ! Get real. Israel will get their money but the administration does not have to be PUBLIC about it.
15
posted on
08/22/2006 8:00:04 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: jdm
"Washington has made it clear to Jerusalem that such aid for Israel is unlikely, even as US President George Bush on Monday announced a $230 million aid package for southern Lebanon."
The Administration continues to wander in a never-never-land of liberal idiocy in pursuit of the War against Terror.
We should have provided Israel with $230 million to help TOTALLY demolish southern Lebanon. OUR tax dollars will go towards HELPING Hezbollah and the Lebanese Government - they are one and the same at this point - prepare for the next onslaught.
Believing we can BUY support against the Iranians and Syrians is the height of idiocy and once again reflects the reality gap between the thinking of Washington Officials and our Islamic enemies.
The BEST "solution" would be for the ceasefire to break down under Hezbollah or Islamic violations and for the U.S. to assist Israel in destroying Hezbollah - totally.
By surviving, Hezbollah won in the eyes of the Islamic world. Israel lost - and we, as Israel's ally, lost by extension. Syria and Iran, as supporters of Hezbollah, won by extension.
The U.S. is perceived, correctly, by the Islamic world as morally weak as it lacks the will and determination to destroy its enemies. They also view us as vacillating as our foreign policy lacks a clear, consistent and unwavering goal - unlike out adversaries who are quite explicit about their goals and totally committed to achieving them.
I really wonder WHO is responsible for the foreign policy decisions of late. Is it Bush personally? Is it Carl Rove? Is it Condi Rice? is it the army of nameless, faceless incompetents who populate our State Department? Is it the gutless, pusillanimous Democrats and their RINO conspirators in Congress who are pressuring the Administration?
The time has come and gone for half-way measures.
Islam is dedicated to the Islamization of the west - either by open military means a la Iran and Syria, or by insidious infiltration, conversion, and employment of our own democratic processes to destroy us from within.
16
posted on
08/22/2006 8:15:03 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: jdm
Why is it these things (for a better word) always want to get in our pockets. This conflict was not ours. We did not take part. I am not in favor of even giving Lebanon one damn dime. We should stop wasting money on those that never appreciate us. As for Israel, the leftist destroy them, just as would happen here if we let the left back into power. Look at how the Democrats damn near ruined our military during the Clintoon years. We will never catch up.
17
posted on
08/22/2006 8:15:20 AM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: jdm
I can't believe we're sending the Lebs 230 mill while giving Israel the shaft.
This is absolute insanity.
18
posted on
08/22/2006 8:18:54 AM PDT
by
JHBowden
(Speaking truth to moonbat.)
To: DoughtyOne
Hexbollah has been telling the people not to accept aid from the infidel.
19
posted on
08/22/2006 8:23:41 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Peace In Our Time®)
To: jveritas
"Do you expect the Administration to say publicly that we are going to pay Israel 2 billions dollars for the cost of war against Hizballah !"
Why not, we're in a war against Terrorists are we not? Stand behind Israel openly and proudly, the hell with the PC PR nonsense.
20
posted on
08/22/2006 8:37:15 AM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-30 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson