Netanyahu: If US Military Aid Doesn't Address Israel's Security Needs, We'll Wait for Next President
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
(9,958 posts)She can have McCain sing "Bomb, Bomb, Iran" at her inauguration.
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
(463 posts)The US militarily can wipe Iran off the map. The rest of the world wants access to their markets, and oil.
trillion
(1,859 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Just think of the business opportunities.
itcfish
(1,828 posts)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
(11,348 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Faces Of Death
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)...
atreides1
(16,079 posts)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
(1,370 posts)but we're supposed to continually bend over for Isreal's current RW government...
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)It's another one of those things that is impolite to mention.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Just a 2 percent cut in defense spending would be more than all the foreign aid we give to all countries.
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)combined ,I'm thinking that pays for a lot of health coverage..
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2 percent of that would be $12 billion.
safeinOhio
(32,677 posts)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.
Well stated!
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Will EVER go against Israel. Right or Left. You can forget that now.
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)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
(58,724 posts)It's just an another way to funnel more money into the military industrial complex.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)safeinOhio
(32,677 posts)for all of its citizens
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)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
(39,171 posts)that's also the reason we give so much military aid to Eygpt.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)REHM: How do you believe President Obamas 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 Presidents back. And I think in that region sadly on both sides I dont 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
(27,804 posts)One more reason to vote for Bernie Sanders, IMO.
Wonder if Hillary went behind president Obama's back and attended it?
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)at a great disappointment to his own political supporters in the United States.
Bibi needs to appreciate that.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)red dog 1
(27,804 posts)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
(26,060 posts)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
(12,151 posts)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
(1,859 posts)Just saying.
Vote2016
(1,198 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)gwheezie
(3,580 posts)When has Obama refused to send aid to Israel? This guy bibi is a piece of work.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Deadlock
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)and leave American tax payers out of it.
randome
(34,845 posts)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
(1,268 posts)Only after you give the Palestine's their own state you war criminal scumbag.