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 Obamas 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 wasnt enough.
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Watching for a 7 year protection covenant.
Advice, when that happens, find somewhere to go.
[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.
What if Congress sends the money on a pallet in an unmarked plane?
I have wondered for years why Bibi gives in to him all the time.
No reason at all the next President cannot tear it up and sign a new deal.
I have "reservations".
Knowing Obama and his associates, I assume it is something awful. Threats of some kind.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
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.
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.
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!
Me too! ;)
means nothing.
is Trump wins,
he could void the agreement
with the stroke of a pen
You are exactly correct.
Only good until January 2017 and then the it’s irrelevant.
No comment... “:^)
I was hoping you’d jump on with
“Me three!”
;)
":^)
But, Me three...
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