Congress Pushes Massive Increase in US Funding for Israeli Anti-Missile System
Senators Claim Funding 'Critical to American Interests'
Nothing makes a budget grow faster than trying to out “pro-Israel” each other. That’s the lesson of today’s story on how Congress continues to grow funding for Israel’s Iron Dome system at a time when the system’s effectiveness is in serious doubt.
The initial proposal from President Obama was $210 million in funding. To prove they are even more pro-Israel, the Senate made it $420 million, insisting it is “critical to American interests.”
Did the Senate win? Not so fast, as the House is now recommending $680 million. Senators are now pushing to at least match if not exceed the House’s funding.The money is in addition to the $3.1 billion in foreign military aid already planned to send to Israel.
The extremely expensive Iron Dome system was initially scrapped by the IDF as impractical, but was eventually fully funded by the US. Israel has talked up the possibility of exporting it to other nations, but experts say the claimed success rate is dramatically overstated and the system probably doesn’t work nearly as well as it is being hyped.
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RickR30
December 13th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Yeah sure, why not, it's not like the US irreversibly broke. It's a matter of time before the US adopts the entire israeli budget. It must be in the US interest to have all these out of control bastard children.
FrankJordan
December 13th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
We ought to just let Israel be the 51st state. Then at least they'd only have two senators.
Schmuck
December 13th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Even the anti-Israel media declared iron dome the real winner. Poor Ditz is just upset there wasn't an eqaul amount of Jews killed compared to "Palestinians," who are really Jordanians and have a state.
james
December 14th, 2012 at 2:10 am
They hate us for our freedom. LOL.
What a bunch of double loyalty goons, isn't the US almost broke? Do American citizens who pay all this money live comfortably? But I guess if they are silent then it means they approve.
It is high time the US got their spring, let this post be the spark.
byrd_bahls22
December 14th, 2012 at 8:26 am
They have the US udders Gorilla glued to their collective Uvulas. No wonder we are broke.
robert emmet
December 14th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Ditto
mr correct
December 14th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
a couple of people in the congress decide how to spend our taxes money for 300 million americans, and we are sitting here like a bunch of losers entertained by the media, and we can do nothing about it and complain. do something people