"we could get along without it”

Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, talking about US military Aid to Israel.

Israel and the United States have been quietly discussing the prospect of ending military assistance to the Jewish state.

Diplomatic sources said Israel and the United States have broached options of reducing defense aid to the Jewish state. At bilateral meetings, they said, participants from both countries agreed that Israel no longer needed formal U.S. military assistance.Arens, who was defense minister three times in the 1980s and 1990s, has long advocated Israel’s military independence. He told a parliament caucus on U.S.-Israel relations that Jerusalem could no longer rely on the current $3.2 billion in annual aid as the United States underwent the worst financial crisis since 1929.

“The United States is going through a financial crisis with debts in the trillions of dollars,” Arens said. “We would be unhappy to find that aid is being cut, but we could survive without it.”

U.S. military aid represents only a tiny fraction of Israel’s gross development product and 1.5 percent of the overall state budget. 

This came out the same week as a story about Israeli cooling devices (things that can make heat seeking missiles more accurate, for instance) ending up in CHINA.

This came out the same week as a story about Iran telling the world there is a (secret?) side deal in the nuke agreement which allows them R&D on much more powerful and efficient and faster UF6 centrifuges.

This came out the same week as a story about Iran telling the world they can walk away from the nuke agreement and be refining past 20% U-235 IN 24 HOURS.

This came out the same week as a story about Kerry being a messianic freak over impossible peace talks with Palestinians who still refuse to either give up right of return or recognize Israel as Jewish homeland, and the hope as quoted by the current defense minister that Kerry win the real goal, the Nobel Peace Prize, and leave them alone.

This came out the same week as a story about a senior Iranian commander saying Teheran has formulated a strategy meant to surround Israel with hostile states

Does anyone BELIEVE in coincidence?

What will the next story be about?

Rafael Electronics in the Chinese (Israeli) J-10?

Or is that the Israeli Lavi ?

Where are we headed? 

Never mind Obama and his admin’s view that ISRAEL IS THE PROBLEM, does Barak Obama believe Iran is a candidate to be a strategic partner to the USA (i.e. the GREAT SATAN) because in our eyes they will behave like Metternich, Talleyrand, or Disraeli?

Has ANY plan in the foreign domain worked out for Barack Obama?

Naive? Hates America? Hates Americans? Believes we should not lead anything? Thinks equality of nations and peoples trumps individual achievement and is playing that out?