http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-may-ask-u-s-for-20-billion-more-in-security-aid-barak-says-1.347866
OY VEY! IZRAHEIL NEEDS A QUICK $20 BILLION FROM UNCLE SAM THINKING IT'S NUKE ARSENAL WON'T BE ENOUGH TO DETER THE MUSLIM HORDES! HERE'S THE STORY[IE;EXTORTION SCHEME], COURTESY OF HAARETZ!
Israel may ask U.S. for $20 billion more in security aid, Barak says
Defense Minister tells Wall Street Journal that Israel must be on guard considering the unrest sweeping the Arab world, adding increased aid could help make Israel a 'stabilizer in such a turbulent region'.
Israel may request an addition $20 billion in military aid from the United States in light of the unrest sweeping the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday.Barak deemed the changes in the region a "movement in the right direction", and said that in the long run, Israel should not fear the "movement of Arab societies toward modernity."
But in the more immediate future, he told the WSJ, Israel would have to contend with the fact that Iran and Syria "might be the last to feel the heat" and join the trend of unrest.
In addition, Barak said, Egypt's new leaders may adhere to the country's 32-year peace treaty "for the time being," but could eventually succumb to popular pressure against it.
He also told the WSJ that a top Egyptian official recently warned him that the new government in Cairo was likely to change its attitude toward Israel unless the latter made serious efforts for peace with the Palestinians.
"He told me, 'We're going to have a really open election....Civic parties will hire advisers from the U.S. and Europe and find immediately that what can bring them voters is hostility to America and Israel," Barak said in the interview.
While Israel did not face an immediate threat to its security, Barak told the WSJ, "The issue of qualitative military aid for Israel becomes more essential for us, and I believe also more essential for you [the U.S.].
"It might be wise to invest another $20 billion to upgrade the security of Israel for the next generation or so," he said, adding: "A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region."
Barak also told the WSJ that Israel was likely to offer Palestinians a state within temporary, detailing for the first time an emerging Israeli plan for breaking the deadlocked peace negotiations.
Though the Palestinians repeatedly have rejected provisional statehood, Ehud
Barak told The Wall Street Journal that Israel or the United States would have to give assurances that a full-fledged agreement on permanent statehood would follow.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to offer the Palestinians a state with temporary borders, he said. Only afterward, would the two sides would resolve key issues of the conflict, such as competing claims to Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees, Barak added.
No details of the plan were given.
With the popular protests shaking up the Mideast, Netanyahu is under fierce international pressure to prove he is serious about getting peacemaking moving again, especially after the U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's West Bank settlement construction last month.
In the past week, Israeli officials have said Netanyahu was considering a phased approach. Although that was widely interpreted to mean a temporary state, they would not say so explicitly. Barak was the first to publicly spell that out.
Government spokesman Mark Regev said Barak's remark can stand on its own.
The prime minister is said to be planning a speech - possibly to be delivered in Washington - in which he will outline his plans.
It is not clear that the U.S. would support the idea of an interim accord, given the Palestinians' categorical rejection of the notion.ALSO INTERESTING NEWS ON THE IZRAHEIL FRONT IS THE STORY OF DR. KISSINGER WRITING PRESIDENT OBAMA TO PARDON CONVICTED TURNCOAT AND IZRAHEIL SPY JOHNATHON POLLARD.
Former U.S. Secretary of State says justice will be served even without life sentence; Netanyahu in January made first Israeli appeal for Pollard's release.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, urging him to commute the prison term of Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life term for spying for Israel."I believe justice would be served by commuting the remainder of Pollard's sentence of life imprisonment, " Kissinger wrote in the letter, in which he enunciated that he had given the matter a lot of thought and research.
"At first I did not have enough information to render a reasoned and just opinion," wrote Kissinger. "But having talked with George Shultz and [reading] the statement of former CIA Director Woolsey, former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman DeConcini, former Defense Secretary Weinberger, former Attorney General Mukasey and others whose judgments and first-hand knowledge of the case I respect, I find their unanimous support for clemency compelling," Kissinger wrote.
Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 on charges of spying on the U.S. for Israel. He is incarcerated at a federal jail in North Carolina.
In January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an official request to the U.S. president to grant clemency to Pollard. This marked the first formal request by Israel for Pollard's release.
"Even though Israel was in no way directing its intelligence efforts against the United States, its actions were wrong and wholly unacceptable," Netanyahu wrote in the official letter he sent to Obama. "Both Mr. Pollard and the Government of Israel have repeatedly expressed remorse for these actions, and Israel will continue to abide by its commitment that such wrongful actions will never be repeated."
Netanyahu made the decision to send the letter after meeting with Pollard's wife Esther, as well as Lawrence Korb, who was the U.S. assistant secretary of defense at the time of Pollard's arrest.
With the Israeli nuclear arsenal at the ready, why do you need more US tax dollars? Is it because you spent hundreds of millions on the Israeli version of the Berlin Wall? New settlements? Oy Vey! I bet they cost a bundle! Paying the Russian jews to live in the settlements-bet that's expensive. Why should the US gift you with any money? Borrow it from wallstreet or better yet have rich American hebrews stroke you a check!
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