From report U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel by Jeremy M. Sharp Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs published April 11, 2014 “For FY2015, the Administration is requesting $3.1 billion in FMF to Israel and $10 million in Migration and Refugee Assistance. The Missile Defense Agency’s FY2015 request for joint U.S.- Israeli programs is $96.8 million. The Administration also is requesting $175.9 million for Iron Dome.” The FY2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 113-76) provides President Obama’s full $3.1 billion in FMF to Israel, all the others previously mentioned, PLUS another $10 million U.S. taxdollars for Israeli Migration and Refugee Assistance (for the new settlements being publicly decried by the same administration). October 1, 2013: “On Tuesday, Mr Obama blamed the (Republican controlled) House of Representatives for the stalemate and said he would keep working to get Congress to reopen the government [and] restart vital services. It was the first U.S. government partial shutdown in over 17 years. Yet that very same day, unbeknownst to most U.S. taxpayers, a multi-BILLION dollar lump sum of taxpayer money was sent to Israel while the media told everyone there was no money left to run the government unless the debt ceiling was raised. Between 1973 and 1991, the United States gave about $460 million for resettling Jewish refugees in Israel. Since 1972, the United States has extended loan guarantees to Israel to assist with housing shortages, Israel’s absorption of new immigrants. Loan guarantees are a form of indirect U.S. assistance to Israel, since they enable Israel to borrow from commercial sources at lower rates. Congress directs that subsidies be set aside in a U.S. Treasury account for possible default. As of 2014, Israel is still authorized to issue up to $3.8 billion in U.S.-backed bonds. Then there is the Cooperative Development Program (CDP); and the Cooperative Development Research (CDR), both of which fund Israel’s foreign aid program. Israel received about one half of the $94 million MERC, and all of the $53 million CDP and $39 million CDR money. In late 1998, Israel requested $1.2 billion in additional U.S. aid to fund the movement of troops and military installations out of areas of the West Bank as called for in the October 23, 1998, Wye Agreement. The Clinton Administration requested this amount for Israel despite the fact that the Wye Agreement’s implementation had stopped and since been reversed. Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the US spent to go to the moon. Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America is an Israeli company. Yet another Israeli telecom company is Odigo, which provides the core message passing system for all the Instant Message services. Two hours before the attacks on the World Trade Towers, Odigo employees received a warning. Odigo has an office 2 blocks from the former location of the World Trade Towers. Fox News, alone of all the media, actually ran the story as a four part broadcast, and put the story up on its web site. Then, without explanation, Fox News erased the story from their web site and have never mentioned it again. CNN followed by Orwellizing their report of the two hour advance warning of the WTC attacks sent to Odigo employees. But far more telling is the admission made by a US Official in part one of the Fox News report that hard evidence existed linking the events of 9/11 not to Arab Muslims, but to some of the more than 200 Israeli spies arrested both before and after 9/11, but that this evidence had been CLASSIFIED. Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is considered career suicide.-- Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale. Now, in a chilling real life version of the plotline from The Net, it turns out that the majority of the firewalls on US corporate and government computer systems are provided by just one company, Checkpoint Systems, which like Amdocs, Comverse Infosys, and Odigo, is headquartered in Israel. In a report by Newsweek earlier this year, former congressional aides and CIA employees stated that Israel’s espionage efforts in the United States date back decades – not only nabbing industrial secrets but also obtaining “key components” for nuclear bombs, according to former CIA national intelligence officer Paul Pillar. One congressional staffer told Newsweek that testimony by US counterspies regarding Israel’s behavior is “very sobering... alarming…even terrifying.” This may well be what Ariel Sharon meant when he stated that the Jewish people control America. “Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” ~ Ariel Sharon October 3, 2001. Stephen Walt, a dean at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago are coming under intense criticism for publishing an academic critique of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. The paper charges that the United States has willingly set aside its own security and that of many of its allies, in order to advance the interests of Israel. In addition, the study accuses the pro-Israel lobby, particularly AIPAC, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, of manipulating the U.S. media, policing academia and silencing critics of Israel. Abba Eban -- it must be thirty years ago -- wrote in an American Jewish journal that “the task of Zionists,” he said, “is to show that all political anti-Zionism.” – that means criticism of the policies of the state of Israel – “is either anti-Semitism or Jewish self-hatred.”
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