Are you aware that the US just paid Iran $1.7 BILLION in US taxpayer funds? Are you aware that Iran has sworn to destroy Israel, and that it is developing a nuclear missile program and supporting Hamas and other terrorist groups?
It would be one thing if the US were cutting funding to all parties. The Obama administration is cutting funding to Israel while shovelling orders of magnitude more money into the coffers into Israel’s sworn military enemies.
What is really going on here is that Obama is trying to press Israel to accept a 10-year defense pact that sharply reduces the money that the US is providing to Israel for defense over the next ten years beginning in 2018. Because Obama is a thug who works in the Chicago way, he is pressuring Israel to accept by raising the stakes with a reduced budget for 2017, the year BEFORE the new pact is to take place.
Oh, I understand the blackmail there. I’m just surprised to discover we’re paying for Israel’s military to begin with. Israel must have some pretty good lobbyists to get us to fork up for their own national defense. Being allies and supporting your ally is one thing, but subsidizing all your allies when you’re dead broke yourself? Doesn’t seem kosher. Israel isn’t a poor country.
Having said that, it's important to note these U.S. "military aid" programs are really nothing more than welfare for U.S. arms suppliers. The U.S. taxpayers are sending this money to Israel so the Israeli military buys their weapons from U.S. manufacturers instead of the Chinese or Russians.