Israeli War Minister Moshe Bogge Ya’alon has long been pushing for increased budgets, but this week he revealed a rather shocking turn of events: The Israeli military has gone broke.
Despite billions of annual military grants it receives from the US, Ya’alon announced that the regimes war-games code named “Turning Point 8,″ which was scheduled to take place next month, will be cancelled and all other forthcoming military drills are expected to experience a similar fate, since the Israeli regime just cannot afford them.
Meanwhile, Ya’alon and other Israeli officials are pressing the US not only to announce an extension of their annual $3 billion in military aid to the country beyond 2017, when the current pledge expires, but to beef it up to something more like $3.5 billion annually for the next decade-long commitment.
US National Security Adviser Susan Rice, visiting the occupied lands of Palestine, played up the $3 billion the US is already giving them as an “investment” that proves their dedication to Tel Aviv.
During a time when the international community and increasing number of nations are disappointed with the Israeli regime’s defiance on demands to stop settlement building in the West Bank and East al-Quds, the US insists on its policy of extending all-out support to the aggressive regime.
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