Israel said to seek additional $300 million from US for missile defense
Times of Israel
Israeli officials have reportedly asked the US Congress to add more than $300 million for the country's missile defense programs in the fiscal year
beginning October 1. The extra funds would be added to the $158 million proposed by the Pentagon in US President Barack Obama's budget request and would be earmarked for production of the joint defense systems David's Sling and Arrow III.
According to a report in Bloomberg Friday, Israel turned directly to
Congress, bypassing the White House and the Pentagon this time given the current spat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and the Obama administration over Netanyahu's upcoming speech to congressional lawmakers on March 3 where he seeks to prevent what he considers a bad
nuclear deal with Iran currently being negotiated by the US-led P5+1 world powers.
The head of Israel's missile defense organization, Yair Ramati, "visited lawmakers and aides to the congressional defense committees on February 2 and
3 to outline the case for more money and thank them for past assistance," persons familiar with the talks told Bloomberg.
According to the report, Ramati, during his visit to Capitol Hill
"distributed one-page sheets naming US contractors that would benefit from production funds for each of the missile defense systems," including Chicago-based Boeing Co.; Waltham, Massachusetts-based Raytheon Co.;
Arlington, Virginia-based Orbital ATK Inc.; and Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp.
Ramati's $317 million proposal included a request for $250 million to start production for David's Sling, a system designed to intercept medium- to long-range missiles, and some $35 million for Arrow III, an anti-ballistic missile system.
The US provides funds for Israel's missile weapons systems separately from
the annual $3.1 billion in military financing it gives Jerusalem to purchase weapons from the US.
In 2014, Congress increased US funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system to $351 million for the fiscal year 2015 from $235 million the
previous year.
The Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted hundreds of
Hamas rockets during last summer's war in Gaza. After the 2014 conflict, funding was bolstered by another $225 million to assist Israel in
replenishing its Iron Dome missile stockpile.
Additionally, there was US funding for joint development of anti-missile systems Arrow III and David's Sling.
In 2014 alone, according to the Congressional Research Service, the Arrow and Arrow II mid-altitude ballistic missile defense system projects - researched and jointly developed by Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries - received $44.3 million, while $74.7 million went to aid research and development of
the new Arrow III high-altitude anti-ballistic system. David's Sling, was budgeted for $149.7 million.
In December 2014, Obama signed a bill deepening US-Israeli cooperation and
said the legislation reinforces "critical defense and security programs."
The US-Israel Strategic Partnership Act increases the value of emergency US weaponry kept in Israel by $200 million, to a total of $1.8 billion. It also offers a verbal guarantee of Israel maintaining a qualitative military edge over its neighbors.
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Here the main blame is on American people not those corrupt politicians in Washington and the Zionist around them. I believe as long as people are silent or careless such corruptions or crimes will continue by their governments. People should wake and see how or why their tax money being sent to Israel.
At the same time US government doesn't have enough money for its own people
but they have enough to spent in military and corrupt governments around the world.
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The lemmings don't care. As long as they have their fill of nascar (you know, the Earnheardt race stuff), Busch light beer, duck dynasty, reality shows,
more reality shows, Hollywood jingoism movies, `Chevy' pick up trucks, wal-mart, skoal moist snuff in their back pocket, reality shows, (did I
mention reality shows), `Mercan holidays to get drunk, more Busch light, on
and on. Did I forget anything?
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For all I care anymore, those in power in Washington D.C. can just started packing the belongings get their freakin passports in order. Then board a
bunch of cheap aircrafts to Tel-Aviv, Isreal... as soon as possible. -Skuz
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