Posted on 05/01/2025 4:02:34 AM PDT by george76
Trump’s tariff poses “a major challenge” to Israel’s economy. Israeli authorities contacted the US “in order to guarantee Israel’s exemption and/or reduce the taxes imposed”. In 2024, the United States had a trade deficit with Israel of some $7 billion, according to data from the US Department of Commerce.
OTOH, China is Israel’s 2nd largest trading partner,
with total trade value reaching a whopping $24.45 billion.
Speaking before a gathering from both countries, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in March 2017 encouraged China “to assume its rightful place… on the world stage.”
“We are your perfect junior partner for that effort,” Netanyahu added. “…I believe this is a marriage made in heaven.”
BACKSTORY-—Trump and Biden restricted sensitive technological exports to China. As a result, China turned to cooperative Israel. China’s direct investment in Israel’s IT industry, especially in chips and semiconductors, now has increased.
In 2017, Israeli PM Netanyahu said China accounts for one-third of the investment in Israeli high technology, which includes US military technology the US shares w/ Israel, its strongest ally. In the ’90s, Israel sold military equipment and technologies to China, including the Harpy missile system.
This incident chilled relations between the United States and Israel, with Israel being suspended from its status as Security Cooperative Participant in the Joint Strike Fighter program. However, on 6 November 2005, Israel stated that it has been re-admitted into the program.
The US had to pressure Israel to stop sharing US military technology w/ China. Yet Israel still doesn’t restrict China from acquiring dual-usage technologies that could have military implications against the US.
A succession of US administrations warned Israel about its growing tie with China, sharing concern about China using Israel as a backdoor to access sensitive technologies from the US.
The most vocal objection to Sino-Israeli ties came from the Trump administration. When former Secy of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel in 2019, he warned Israelis that the CCP “engages in spying through its commercial state-owned enterprises and presents risk through its technology systems. Pompeo said China’s actions posed a risk.
Unfortunately, Israel largely brushed aside the warnings. Like many other countries, China’s massive market has enticed Israel. Plus, the Israeli government hopes China’s good relationships with Arab nations may help Israel.
Netanyahu was working on a Sino-Israeli free trade agreement and planned to visit China. But China’s siding w/ Hamas alerted Israel’s leaders to the reality that Communist China’s relationship with Israel is purely transactional.
Antisemitism apologists are wrong. Not only does antisemitism lead to tragedies such as the Holocaust but it bleeds out over other faiths and peoples, such as anti Catholicism. Jewish people who don’t have a problem with what the Gaza protestors on campuses are doing may end up wishing they hadn’t supported it.
Jewish people are oddly blind to their enemies.
They’re very trusting people.....thinking everybody else is, too.
No, leftists are oddly blind to their enemies.
I fail to see any difference between a Jewish leftist and a gentle leftist.
Newsome helps racist illegals who want to kill white people, violent jihadis, and others bent on his destruction.
As do Biden, Pelosi, and every other Democrat.
Also, unrelated, but Abe Foxman is a moron who believes in things that are not true.
Blessed are the peacemakers......
During the 2024 US election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion peace-keeping US tax dollars in that one year alone. “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have,” peacemaker Biden boasted.
Besides peace-making US weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian US tax dollars in USAID, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military support related to the country’s pressing peace needs.
Israel has also historically been permitted to use a portion of its FMF aid to buy equipment from its
own Israeli peacemaking defense firms—a benefit not granted to other recipients of US military equipment.
US peacekeeping tax dollars reportedly account for some 15% of Israel’s defense budget. Israel, like many other countries, also buys US military products outside of the US Foreign Military Financing program.
The ACLU is a bigger betrayal to the US.
Jews are suicidal.
Who knew
This should be a turning point for American Jews. It’s not white racists, other than liberals, responsible for the hate. Their liberal leaders are hating the conservatives who are the greatest supporters of Jews and of Israel. How can American Jews continue to fail to see, when the evidence is right in their faces? There is no excuse for ignoring reality now!
Children blindly trust. Adults trust but verify.
Israel, unlike Europe, pays a huge percentage of its GDP for defense. It doesn’t put American buys and girls on the front lines. It works on our weaponry, in real wars, and returns them better. Golden Dome, for example, will be a direct result of Israeli research and experience.
It provides excellent intelligence.
That’s a real ally and a real partner, unlike all the nato freeloaders.
Citation, please, so that we can inspect the bias and facts of the source.
Plus which: As the First Responder to an article about exactly anti-semitism, what prompted your little jeremiad against Israel’s trade policies with China?
So in your second Fast Response to an article about exactly anti-Semitism against Jews is America, you light off about military relations between the U.S. and Israel.
Any further indictments against Israel you need to get off your chest this morning? Pookies Toons thread is undoubtedly available for your little hissy fits.
It is 80 years since the end of WWII. How many more legitimate Holocaust survivers can possibly still be around? Even the youngest children alive then would be in their mid to late 80s now. A baby born in 1945 would turn 80 this year.
**Jews are suicidal. Who knew**
Marxist. Most of them.
Yeah, who didn't see that coming...
...again and again and again.
This isn't about ideology, this is crabs in a bucket.
“As the First Responder to an article about exactly anti-semitism, what prompted your little jeremiad against Israel’s trade policies with China?”
As you know Uncle Miltie, thats because liz is a vile jew-hating anti-semite
Same Thing
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