The Obama administration’s $225 million request to aid Israel during its war with Hamas may not be enough, warned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday afternoon.
At the request of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Senate Democrats folded $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system into a larger bill that offers $2.7 billion in emergency funding to deal with the influx of Central American migrants to the southern border. But Reid said Israel will need even more help from the United States if the war in Gaza continues, demonstrating the need to pass the funding package this week ahead of a five-week congressional recess.
Reid predicted that Hagel’s aid request for Israel may turn out to be “only temporary” given the steep costs associated with operating Iron Dome, which picks off Hamas’s rockets at a price-tag of $62,000 per missile, according to Reid.
“We should not give the Israeli people the minimum amount of aid and then cross our fingers and hope it all works out in the future,” Reid said. “We can do better and need to go further in protecting Israel.”
If the U.S., is funding the war in Gaza, which it appears we are, then whose war is it? And how is the killing the of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel using U.S. weapons purchased with U.S. tax dollars making America more safe? Isn’t that a proxy war? No one can dispute the fact that our Congress funds and follows Israeli policy. To a T. Especially Israel’s foreign policy. Is that a good thing for America to be doing? European Jews are at risk of “another Holocaust” according to the Zionist press. Is our war against Hamas which is being fought by the Israelis making the conditions ripe for “another Holocaust” in Europe?
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