Under an existing aid agreement between Washington and Tel Aviv signed in 2007, $30 billion of American taxpayers’ money is currently flowing to Israel, Defense News reported. However, concerned with increasing US arms sales to countries in the region, the Israelis are asking Washington for a surge in its advanced military aid. “Israel is not threatened by anyone right now. In fact, it’s surrounded by countries that either have no military capability or countries that are friendly with whom they have a peace agreement,” Peled said and added: “But Israel continues to build this massive arsenal of arms because they want to maintain its ability to be the bully in the neighborhood, to be the bully of the Middle East It allows them to attack Lebanon, It allows them to continue oppress the Palestinians, to execute horrific crimes against Palestinians using these arms.” The US annual military aid to Israel has been elevated from $2.4 billion to $3.1 billion through 2017 under the existing agreement but the scope of the increase in the US Foreign Military Financing levels demanded by Israel is not clear yet.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:50:29 +0000
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