US military aid will help Israel kill more people: Activist
The increase in US military aid to Israel will help Tel Aviv murder more people, says political activist and radio host Don DeBar.
The US has reportedly increased its military aid package to Israel, which would include another squadron of F-35 fighter jets, in an attempt to comfort the crying regime in Tel Aviv over the historic conclusion of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries.
“The US offers Israel more military aid, that benefits a whole bunch of folks except, of course, tax payers here in the United States and the people with those airplanes are going to be used to murder,” DeBar told Press TV on Friday.
“This has the political imperative for the Obama administration to trying to hold the fort and perhaps even turn off the spigot of AIPAC money into Congress,” he stated.
Another group that will benefit is the “military contractors of course (that) are always lobbying for more business,” he added, noting “these jetfighters and everything else are huge consumers of petroleum so the other companies make money” as well.
“The entire arrangement of the US with Israel, aside from being so anachronistic and just riddled generally with contradiction, is becoming more and more of an impediment to even a rational imperial US foreign policy.”
The US aid package increase would include extra funding for the development of missile defense system, as well as another squadron of America’s fifth-generation aircraft, F-35 fighter jets, according to a report published by the Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
Restocking munitions that Israel used in last year’s 50-day war on the besieged Gaza Strip would also be included in the package, the report said.
Under the current agreement between Israel and the US, which went into effect in 2009, Tel Aviv receives $3 billion a year, most of which is used to buy American military hardware, such as jets and components for missile defense.
DeBar said the US and Israel will finally fail in trying to achieve their objectives, but “in the meantime hundred thousand another few million people have to die, have to be homeless, like is happening in Yemen right now, have to live under siege like people in Gaza and West Bank.”
“The entire arrangement is not sustainable and yet it is our policy that tells you something about the nature of the US political system,” he concluded.
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