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Senate Democrats Push To Triple Israel's Iron-Dome Aid To $576 Million
U.S. Senate Democrats included $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome rocket interception system in an emergency funding bill on Tuesday, which, as Bloomberg reports, in addition to the $351 million that’s already under discussion for Iron Dome in fiscal 2015 would bring the potential new funding to $576 million, compared with the $176 million currently requested by the Pentagon. "Iron Dome has saved countless Israeli lives," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a letter dated yesterday and while the Iron Dome system is built by Haifa-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd, an agreement with Israel calls for more than half the funds the Pentagon provides for Iron Dome to be spent in the U.S..
U.S. Senate Democrats included $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome rocket interception system in an emergency funding bill on Tuesday that also cut $1 billion from President Barack Obama's request for $3.7 billion to deal with thousands of undocumented child immigrants.
"Israel is an essential American ally and needs these assets to defend itself," said Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in a statement.
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U.S. lawmakers tend to be heavily pro-Israel. However, the fate of the $225 million - and other funding in the legislation - is uncertain in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, where there is stiff opposition to an increase in spending tied to the Democratic president's request.
This almost triples the aid for Israel (as Bloomberg reports),
The money -- which would be included in an emergency spending bill directed mostly at child-migration issues on the U.S.-Mexico border -- would be in addition to the $351 million that’s already under discussion for Iron Dome in fiscal 2015. It would bring the potential new funding to $576 million, compared with the $176 million requested by the Pentagon for the year that begins Oct. 1.
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The added $225 million for the current fiscal year would be used “to accelerate production of Iron Dome components in Israel to maintain adequate stockpiles,” Hagel said in the letter.
“Iron Dome has saved countless Israeli lives,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a letter dated yesterday
An agreement with Israel calls for more than half the funds the Pentagon provides for Iron Dome to be spent in the U.S.
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We can almost hear the teleprompter now that Republicans (should they block this spending) would have the blood of dead Israeli children on their hands...
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Yes, and this $576,000,000,000,000, is going to come from where?
Tyler, the bridge is splitting in two!
Two Tylers better than one!!
Good to know that Tyler has the double post problem too
Meanwhile lack of aid in Detroit results in people having their water shut off. I guess they are not 'chosen' for aid
Detroit Jews need to invade canada...Canada fires rockets into detriot. There will be money for Detroit for Military Aid
Free money, money for all,
26/11 Mumbai Attacks Complicit Israeli Diamond Mafia Funding Gaza Conflict
MH17 Chameleon: Operation Rapid Trident IIInstead of an Iron Dome, nuke that shitty little country but only after we've moved all the Zionists like Feinswine and Mikulshitsky there.
So the lbgt free the shit out everyone crowd needs the Joos to save them. How did we arrive at this dark situation!
And what kind of an iron dome does the US have?
Then again, her real enemies are on the inside.
And how many PENNIES for emergency aid to Gaza?
District Of Criminals - DC
Sooooo. Iron Dome paid for by USA taxpayers?
And Blood Diamonds?
"Palestinians are by far the biggest victims of blood diamond-funded violence. The diamond industry is “one of the cornerstones of the Israeli economy” and revenue from that industry is used to deny Palestinians the most basic of human rights — the right to life. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s diamond-funded military. Millions of Palestinians suffer daily humiliation and denial of the inalienable rights as they languish in refugee camps across the Middle East, eke out an existence under occupation and brutal subjugation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and endure discrimination in their daily lives under the apartheid regime in Israel.
"The diamond industry in Israel is the cornerstone of the economy that generates the revenue needed to sustain a belligerent apartheid regime which commits serious human rights violations on a daily basis and ignores all attempts by the international community to broker a just and lasting peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians."
Buy AU and AG and leave the Diamonds fro Jamie
You mean the 20% of Democratic Senators that have dual passports?
And I sit here wondering if one of these threads will be deleted once they figure out they've double posted the same story. Or are the wise ones "good enough" to combine all these comments under one posting...
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