The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill giving Israel $705 million for Israeli rocket defense systems, representing a $558 million increase above President Trump’s budget request for these programs and $105 million over last year’s adopted funding level…
Philip Giraldi in CNI: In 1992, the AIPAC President bragged how he “got almost a billion dollars in other goodies [for Israel] that people don’t even know about.” In 2012, Israel’s former commander-in-chief said that between 2009 and 2012 American taxpayers had paid for more of his country’s defense budget than had Israeli taxpayers. Other special interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from the national interest…
Philip Giraldi: The neoconservatives, Israel-firsters, hate Trump, having favored Hillary Clinton as president due to their conviction that she would be the more aggressive president. They now believe that if they force Trump out they will return to power, so they continue to pile on. Trump is also being battered by pro-Israel interests on the left. Bernard-Henri Levy warns that Trump is a threat to all American Jews. Why? Because his love for the Jewish people is “insufficient.” Levy explains, “This love is precisely what is required of an American president in dealings affecting Israel.”
Presidential, congressional, and state legislation. LATEST: Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.720 and H.R.1697), introduced last week by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rob Portman (R-OH), and Reps. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-CA).
The Israel lobby was buying politicians and policy in 2014, and it is still doing so today. (Top of the list of recipients: Joe Biden.)
Israel drops off 88 unidentifiable corpses in Gaza; US forks over billions more in “negotiated” aid; Israel continues bombing of Lebanese residences; an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire possibility vanishes; yet another massively destructive Israeli raid on Jenin; Saudi Arabia (Israel’s next target for normalization) sets sight on two-state solution; China scolds US for double standards; tenured prof fired for pro-Palestine Instagram post; Bernie Sanders’ latest attempt to block aid to Israel; more.
An American self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston; US students protest for Gaza in spite of restrictions; US shelling out big bucks for goodies for Israel and aid for Egypt; State Dept spox prefers Israeli whitewashing over Washington Post investigation; EU leader called antisemitic for talking about two-state solution; Pope declares Israel’s actions in Gaza “ugly”; more.
US approves $164.6M military equipment sale to Israel; Israel continues to block aid to Gaza; WaPo investigation: Israel lied about Aysenur Eygi’s death; Netanyahu tried to fool ICC; EU Foreign Policy chief Borrell blocked from visiting Israel; WHO: 22,000 wounded in Gaza have life-changing injuries; Israel admits it killed at least 2,300 Palestinians in Rafah assault; another Palestinian killed in West Bank; more.
The most complete, up-to-date view of AIPAC PAC donations to congressional candidates.
These two articles give us a peek into how some uber-wealthy Americans spend big bucks, betting on political candidates with whom they may have nothing in common…except Israel.