Wesley Clark: Israel Can’t Do Much More to Protect Civilians and Still Eliminate Hamas

Breitbart ^ | 12/04/2023 | Ian hatchett

[Zathras]

Isn’t he dead?

[Widget Jr]

That is in addition to past Israel arms purchases, like this one in 2015. It will be rather difficult for any government to pressure on Israel to negotiate, when they have enough weaponry to destroy Hamas entirely on their own.

[BillyBoy]

Hell has frozen over. I not only agree with the Hilderbeast on this issue, I'm now on the same side as insane loose cannon Gen. Weasley Clark!

Honestly, a LOT weirder than FReepers yapping about George Soros backing Ukraine...

Politics makes strange bedfellows!

[Mark17]

Who dug up this POS? 🙄

I don’t know, but I thought we had seen the last of that MoFo.

[Liz]

reuters.com
By Matt Spetalnick
September 15, 2016

US, Israel sign $38 billion annual "military aid" package thru 2028

President Obama meets with Israeli PM Netanyahu in the
White House Nov 9, 2015. / REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will give Israel $38 billion in "military assistance" over the next decade, the largest such aid package in US history, under a landmark agreement. The deal will allow Israel:
<>to upgrade most of its fighter aircraft,
<>improve its ground forces’ mobility
<>and strengthen its missile defense systems.

The $38 billion is the most U.S. military aid ever given to a country, and includes Israel’s promise:
<> not to seek additional funds from Congress beyond the annual guaranty,
<>phases out a special arrangement unique to Israel
<>wherein Israel spent US tax dollars on its own billion dollar defense industry rather than American-made weapons.

The Obama-era $38 billion deal covers U.S. fiscal years 2019-2028 and follows the $30 billion deal signed in 2007, which expires at the end of fiscal 2018.

According to a White House “fact sheet,” the deal includes:
<>-annual US payments to Israel of $3.3 billion in so-called "military financing,"
<>-$500 million a year for Israel's missile defense operations in the Negev, a foreign aid first,
<>-A phasing-out of a decades-long "special arrangement"
<>Israel used 26.3% of US aid on its own booming defense industry instead of on US-made weapons.
<>-Elimination of a longstanding provision that has allowed Israel to use some 13% of US aid to buy military fuel.
<>-The US funding will allow Israel to update “the lion’s share” of its fighter aircraft,
<>the deal includes purchasing additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
<>Israel is to receive thirty three F-35 aircraft,
<>the first two F-35's will be delivered in December.

Reporting by Matt Spetalnick and Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Susan Heavey and Howard Golle