Despite Voicing Criticism, Susan Rice Promises Israel 'Largest Military Aid Package in U.S. History'

[Purveyor]

Source: Haaretz

The American national security adviser also lashes out at Israel's settlement activity, saying that the only road to 'sustainable security for Israel and to dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians is two states for two peoples.'

Haaretz and JTA 07.06.2016 09:38 Updated: 10:24 AM

U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice promised Israel on Monday that the new military aid agreement between the two nations that is currently being negotiated will constitute “the single largest military assistance package — with any country — in American history.”

Addressing the American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington, Rice said the new decade-long aid package, which is expected to provide Israel somewhere between $37.5 billion and $40 billion over the life of the pact, will “constitute a significant increase in support,” providing funding to update Israel’s aircraft fleet and strengthen missile defenses.

Hinting at the polarized views on Israeli policy among the U.S. presidential candidates, Rice said that “Israel’s security isn’t a Democratic interest or a Republican interest—it’s an enduring American interest.” At the same time, Rice lashed out at Israel's settlement activity, saying that the only road to “sustainable security for Israel and to dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians is two states for two peoples.”

“Just as we oppose counterproductive Palestinian actions and strongly condemn incitement and violence, settlement activity corrodes the prospects for two states,” she said. “It moves Israel toward a one-state reality.”


Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.723578

[valerief]

1. Cuz Americans don't need money. nt

[geek tragedy]

2. "We can save Israel from Iran, but we can't save Israel from itself" nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Israel is like the abusive drunk while America

acts like the enabling friend who keeps on buying Israel drinks.

Ya jest gotta love those special relationships...

[modestybl]

5. Sometimes you need to hide the keys...

Things are only going to get worse, not better, for Israel going down this road.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. There are no doves in Tel Aviv or in D.C.

There are, however, a lot of excuses.

Things will get worse, and then something will break more than it is already.

[sulphurdunn]

4. The "special relationship" circus

is really just a one trick pony. Explaining why one of the wealthiest and militarily strongest countries on earth (also an arms exporter) needs American money to defend itself from people who fight back against Israeli occupation and illegal settlement with rocks, knives and obsolete rockets is never part of the performance.

[maxsolomon]

7. The Deep State is impervious to changes in the party of the Executive

Israel is the 3rd Rail of American Politics.

I was recently told by an 87 year old Jewish Lady that she wouldn't be voting for Clinton because "I don't think she will be good for Israel". I nearly fell over - Hillary bent over backwards to kiss their asses at AIPAC, and IT MEANT NOTHING.

Its not the goddamn 51st State.

[Norman Conch Quest]

8. It Wasn't a Chicago Woman, After All

[AntiBank]

9. Susan Rice is a horrific "humanitarian bomber" type, like Samantha Power, Albright, etc

The Hijacking of Human Rights

by Chris Hedges

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/04/08/hijacking-human-rights

Nossel, who was deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs under Hillary Clinton in a State Department that was little more than a subsidiary of the Pentagon, is part of the new wave of “humanitarian interventionists,” such as Samantha Power, Michael Ignatieff and Susan Rice, who naively see in the U.S. military a vehicle to create a better world. They know little of the reality of war or the actual inner workings of empire. They harbor a childish belief in the innate goodness and ultimate beneficence of American power. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents, the horrendous suffering and violent terror inflicted in the name of their utopian goals in Iraq and Afghanistan, barely register on their moral calculus. This makes them at once oblivious and dangerous. “Innocence is a kind of insanity,” Graham Greene wrote in his novel “The Quiet American,” and those who destroy to build are “impregnably armored by … good intentions and … ignorance.”


Israel is simply a fascist, tribalist, racist apartheid state. Cut them off now

[Dont call me Shirley]

14. Thanks for posting, Hedges is always enlightening...

The merger/marriage of humanitarian organizations with the war agenda, kinda like the marriage of the christian fundamenalists with the war agenda.

[AntiBank]

19. Unfortunately Hedges is considered a "pesky lefty, tilting at red windmills" by the bog-standard

members of the Clintonian and neoliberal crew that have hijacked the Democratic Party and vast swathes of this board.

[McKim]

10. If Clinton is Selected Our Foreign Policy Will Be Firmly Controlled by Israel

If Clinton is selected, our foreign policy will be even more firmly in the hands of Israel. We will kill so many people in the Middle East and treat other countries like ant colonies to be destroyed.

[SwankyXomb]

11. "We don't like what you're doing, but here, have a bag of money!"

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. Susan Rice: Just as fucked up as Condoleeza Rice.

[AntiBank]

16. Worse in some fashion, people like her and Hillary give left cover

to empiric wars. Libya was the most insane, unjustified and all round tragic take down yet. It has been reduced from a stable, highest standard of living in Africa state to a chaotic, murderous shithole that spawns terrorists at a higher per capita rate than any other nation. But hey, the central bank and the oil are completely under the West's imperial whip hand!!!!

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. "We're the US "humanitarians" and we're here to help"...

[Javaman]

15. I always wondered what would happen if Saudi Arabia tried to build a nuke.

that would pose a very interesting conundrum now, wouldn't it?

[Sunlei]

17. Our Department of State report looks pretty balanced to me. Two states is the only solution.

To bad Egypt and Jordan refuse to help, assist, train, educate, give jobs to Palestinians at all. Even a couple miles of their unused desert would help them.