South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says that Israel will ask for another $1 billion in military aid in the United States this week. This request comes just two weeks after the Biden administration approved a $735 million arms sale to the country on top of the $3.8 billion in military aid the U.S. sends to Israel annually.
Graham made these comments on the show Fox and Friends. “There is going to be a request made by the Israelis to the Pentagon on Thursday for $1 billion in aid to replenish Iron Dome batteries,” he told the hosts. “It will be a good investment for the American people. I will make sure in the Senate that they get the money.”
Graham was in Israel meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz yesterday.
Although the Biden administration pushed through the recent weapons sale without debates, a group of House progressives attempted to thwart the move via resolution. “For decades, the U.S. has sold billions of dollars in weaponry to Israel without ever requiring them to respect basic Palestinian rights. In so doing, we have directly contributed to the death, displacement and disenfranchisement of millions,” said New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after introducing the legislation. “At a time when so many, including President Biden, support a ceasefire, we should not be sending ‘direct attack’ weaponry to Prime Minister Netanyahu to prolong this violence.”
The legislative effort was endorsed by over 70 organizations, including Defense for Children International – Palestine, Center for Constitutional Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, and Justice Democrats. Bernie Sanders introduced his own resolution aimed at stopping the sale in the Senate.
The entity referred to as “Israel,” an expansionist, borderless, illegal/brutal occupier and ethnic cleanser of the indigenous Palestinians serves no useful purpose for the United States. Indeed, it is long since time that Washington cut off all financial aid and set it adrift.
Parasites will keep feeding off us to continue their occupation, land theft, illegal settlements, human rights abuses, and the massacre of little babies. They have refused to attend peace talks even when offered fighter jets, they have interfered in our policies both domestic and internationally, refused to freeze the building of illegal settlements, and even openly tried to sabotage the US nuclear deal with Iran. We should also remember that they bombed the USS Liberty, and got Pollard to spy on us, which resulted in a life sentence, and they keep biting the hands that feed it.
We must be a nation of suckers to keep giving this high maintenance diva all it desires.
And yet Hitler Jr. stood before congress and said that Israelistan didn’t NEED nation building, and that it could defend itself, before getting the “longest continual blowjob ever received by a Jewish man” in the form of standing ovations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70TPzXjsqM
Being a coloniser and criminal state is a costly business Mr Biden.So come on and get the checkbook out.It,s the one in the righthand corner of your desk -you will recognise it by the Star of David emblazened on the front —and back–just in case any POTUS forgets who is boss.
Hell , it,s only a meagre 1 billion.What,s a Billion amongst allies.
Might as well give Israel another billion. It’s not as if the US has anything else to spend it on.