Netanyahu: If US Military Aid Doesn't Address Israel's Security Needs, We'll Wait for Next President

[Purveyor]

Source: Haaretz

Prime minister says he's not worried about U.S. action on the Palestinian issue at the UN Security Council during the remainder of Obama's time in office.

Barak Ravid Feb 07, 2016 7:42 PM

If Israel's security needs are not sufficiently addressed as part of negotiations with the U.S. on a new memorandum of understanding on American military aid to the country, Israel will defer signing it, in an effort to obtain better terms, until a new American president takes office next year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Sunday's cabinet meeting.

"It's not yet clear that we will come to an agreement," Netanyahu told the cabinet members in the course of a diplomatic-security briefing by acting national security adviser Jacob Nagel, who also heads the Israeli team negotiating memorandum with the Americans. "[We] need to see if [we] can achieve a result that will address Israel's security needs or perhaps we will not manage to come to an agreement with this administration and will need to come to an agreement with the next administration."

Last Thursday, an American delegation led by Yael Lempert, the Special Assistant to the president and Senior Director for the Levant, Israel and Egypt at the National Security Council in the White House, who arrived in Israel to hold a third round of negotiations on the matter. Over the past three days, the American team held discussions with a team of counterparts from the national security staff in the Prime Minister's Office and from the Defense Ministry, the Israel Defense Forces and the Foreign Ministry. The main topic of discussion in the talks was the size of the aid that the United States would provide Israel and the conditions on its use.

Netanyahu's remarks at the cabinet meeting raise the possibility that the round of talks in Jerusalem will not achieve substantial progress. Just two weeks ago, in the course of his visit to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the prime minister met with American Vice President Joe Biden, and where the two discussed the matter, the prime minister sounded much more optimistic. In an interview on stage with American journalist Fareed Zakaria, Netanyahu noted that he believed Israel and the United States would manage to wrap up negotiations in a positive manner on a new security memorandum of understanding in the coming months that would outline the size of American assistance to the IDF for the coming decade.


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[OnyxCollie]

1. Expect war with Iran if Hillary is elected.

She can have McCain sing "Bomb, Bomb, Iran" at her inauguration.

Clinton says U.S. could "totally obliterate" Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/22/us-usa-politics-iran-idUSN2224332720080422

On the day of a crucial vote in her nomination battle against fellow Democrat Barack Obama, the New York senator said she wanted to make clear to Tehran what she was prepared to do as president in hopes that this warning would deter any Iranian nuclear attack against the Jewish state.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran (if it attacks Israel)," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.

"That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic," Clinton said.

[The CCC]

17. Expect war with Iran if Hillary is elected.

The US militarily can wipe Iran off the map. The rest of the world wants access to their markets, and oil.

[trillion]

24. There will likely be Mid East response and Russian response if we did that.

[OnyxCollie]

31. Details, details.

Just think of the business opportunities.

[itcfish]

36. That is the biggest Crock of Crap

I've ever seen posted by a Bernie Supporter, and I've seen a lot of crap from both sides. But this is not only a lie but a dangerous one.

[harun]

39. A virtual guarantee

[Wilms]

2. He's hoping for one of these three.

[billhicks76]

22. Whoa

Faces Of Death

[Helen Borg]

3. Why do we give military aid to Israel?

...

[atreides1]

4. Simple

If we didn't then the evangelicals and fundamentalist "Christians" would have a cow!!!

Also, the MIC would have one less customer to sell their products of death to!!!

Personally, Israel is a sovereign country and they should be responsible for their own security...

[raindaddy]

5. we can't keep up our roads and bridges and provide healthcare for all our citizens.....

but we're supposed to continually bend over for Isreal's current RW government...

[Helen Borg]

6. SOMEBODY will have to start talking about that too, very soon...

It's another one of those things that is impolite to mention.

[oberliner]

8. The amount of foreign aid to all countries (including Israel) is minuscule

Just a 2 percent cut in defense spending would be more than all the foreign aid we give to all countries.

[raindaddy]

10. While I'm not going to do the math, since we spend more than the rest of the world

combined ,I'm thinking that pays for a lot of health coverage..

[oberliner]

12. Military spending was $600 billion in 2015

2 percent of that would be $12 billion.

[safeinOhio]

19. I find it strange that the repubs running for office

aren't upset that the amount we give Israel for military equals about 80% of what they spend on universal health care in Israel. That includes 2 free abortions for females in the army. You could just shift the figures and conclude we pay for their Socialized medicine for Israel, but none for us.

[red dog 1]

14. + 1

Well stated!

[itcfish]

37. No Politician in the US

Will EVER go against Israel. Right or Left. You can forget that now.

[raindaddy]

40. I'm not saying the US should ever "go against" Israel..

I'm saying that considering that healthcare in Israel is universal and their infrastructure isn't crumbling because of lack of funds and their college education system is cheep by our standards maybe before we consider another raise in military aid we should consider the poor and middle class here in America.

[oberliner]

7. Because they buy US military equipment with the money

It's just an another way to funnel more money into the military industrial complex.

[Purveyor]

11. And our politicians let's not forget... eom

[ericson00]

18. because they're one of a kind:

theyre the only Freedom House ranked free nation in the Middle East


until they're joined by other countries, I will reflexively side with Israel.

[safeinOhio]

21. Would be nice if they were a free country

for all of its citizens

[OnyxCollie]

32. Freedom House, meh.

I don't care much for an organization that has had Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel Huntington, and Steve Forbes as its board members.

[hack89]

30. Camp David Accords - the price for an Israeli and Eygptian peace treaty

that's also the reason we give so much military aid to Eygpt.

[oberliner]

9. Bernie Sanders: “I’m not a great fan” of Benjamin Netanyahu

REHM: How do you believe President Obama’s relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu has affected our relationship with Israel?

SANDERS: Well, I gotta tell you, I am not a great fan of President Netanyahu I did not attend the speech that he gave before the joint session of Congress. I think it was opportunistic. I think he was using it as part of his campaign for re-election. I think he was being used or did use the Republicans to go behind the President’s back. And I think in that region sadly on both sides I don’t think we have the kind of leadership that we need. And so you know I think the President is trying to do the best that he can in enormously difficult circumstances.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/bernie_sanders_im_not_a_great_fan_of_benjamin_netanyahu_partner/

[red dog 1]

13. Thanks for that link

One more reason to vote for Bernie Sanders, IMO.

[trillion]

25. +10000

Wonder if Hillary went behind president Obama's back and attended it?

[bluestateguy]

15. Obama has given Israel every dollar he has been requested to provide

at a great disappointment to his own political supporters in the United States.

Bibi needs to appreciate that.

[EndElectoral]

29. Bibi views it as an entitlement

[red dog 1]

16. K&R...Thanks for posting, Purveyor

When are the Israelis going to wake up and stop supporting that dangerous war-monger?

Netanyahu & his Likud terrorist Party should be replaced with politicians who want peace, not war.

[leftynyc]

38. It would be much easier to convince

them of that if terrorist hamas weren't still sending rockets over from gaza and people weren't getting stabbed almost daily in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and they didn't have to worry about the tunnels hamas was building daily using the Palestinian aid that is supposed to be used for food, shelter, hospitals and food.

[DirkGently]

20. Bibi sure thinks he has a lot to say about American politics

and leadership. Undercutting Obama by addressing the Republicans on his own; letting everyone know what he will be requiring of us.

Now he's holding out for his preferred President, whomever that may be?

Maybe next he can hold his breath and stamp his feet until we get back to him.

[trillion]

23. How about Israel paying for Israel's military needs.

Just saying.

[Vote2016]

26. Obama should send Netanyahu a nice letter on heavy card stock that says "Your proposal is accepted."

[larkrake]

27. why help Israel at all? what do we get out of defending them?

[gwheezie]

28. A simple thank you for all the aid would be nice

When has Obama refused to send aid to Israel? This guy bibi is a piece of work.

[PatrynXX]

33. would be interesting debacle for Israel if they had to push against an American Jew

Deadlock

[sinkingfeeling]

34. Here's a thought: let Israel address it's own security needs

and leave American tax payers out of it.

[randome]

35. Must not be a very pressing concern, then!

Netanyahu, shorter response: "Eh. It can wait."
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[Duckfan]

41. Sure, When Bernie Is President he will help you....

Only after you give the Palestine's their own state you war criminal scumbag.

[Bradical79]

42. How much have they spent on F-35s so far? -nt