Jacob Nagel, acting head of the National Security Council, landed in Washington D.C. on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice at which he is expected to sign an agreement on a new military aid package.
Nagel will hold at the White House that will deal mainly with last-minute coordination and the wording of a joint statement that will be published by the two parties. The signing ceremony is expected to take place on Wednesday.
In accordance with the deal, which the two countries have been negotiating since November 2015, the United States will provide Israel with $38 billion in military aid over the next decade, $5 billion of them will be dedicated to the development of missile defense systems.
Nagel left Israel for the U.S. Monday night after meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, which dealt with the final details of the agreement such as the way the agreement would be announced etc. The agreement will be signed by Nagal and Rice and the signing ceremony is expected to take place Tuesday, though it is possible that it will be postponed to Wednesday.
The old military aid agreement, which ends at the end of 2018, totaled $30 billion over a decade or an average of $3 billion annually. That being said, the actual military aid the U.S. transferred to Israel was greater due additional aid approved by Congress following requests by Israel. Over the last few years Congress approved an additional $500 million annually to be added to the original base sum, which made the total amount of military aid transferred to Israel annually approximately $3.5 billion.
The new military aid deal is expected to total about $38 billion over a decade, or an average of $3.8 billion per year. This amounts to the largest increase ever in U.S. aid to Israel.
The sum of the new agreement is significantly lower than what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sought. When negotiations started, Netanyahu asked to increase the aid to $4.5 billion a year, or $45 billion over ten years. Taking into account aid supplements approved in the past by Congress, the new aid agreement effectively increases the annual aid budget by only about $300 million.
Netanyahu gave in to a series of American demands under the new agreement, including a significant limitation on Israel’s ability to ask Congress for supplemental aid. One of the annexes to the agreement is an official letter by the Israeli government containing a commitment not to hold any contacts in the coming decade with Congress about any increased aid for development of missile defense systems. The Israeli commitment letter is in addition to another qualifier, which is that Israel may request an aid increase in the event of an emergency such as war.
In addition, Netanyahu has agreed to end an arrangement that permitted Israel to use 26 percent of American aid money to purchase equipment from Israel’s military industries within six years of the aid deal going into effect, and to use 13% of American aid money to buy fuel for the IDF. Under the new agreement, Israel will have to spend all its American aid money on purchases from U.S. military industries.
Negotiations for the aid package began in November 2015. President Barack Obama had proposed to Netanyahu to start the talks some six months beforehand, but Netanyahu refused and prevented the start of talks for some months, while he was seeking to thwart a nuclear agreement with Iran. Netanyahu agreed to start talks on the aid package and upgrading the IDF’s capabilities only after he failed in his efforts to thwart the deal with Iran.
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If these fuc…. cocksuckers are so gad damned special? Why don’t they get off our tit. I wish we had some balls left in District of criminals to either tell them to fu.. off or let fend for themselves. Fuc…. parasites!!!
“The sum of the new agreement is significantly lower than what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sought. When negotiations started, Netanyahu asked to increase the aid to $4.5 billion a year, or $45 billion over ten years.”
Whodathunk a joo would aim high and act like he was making a concession when accepting less of something they didn’t deserve at ALL in the first place!
We should just give them a couple nukes. They deserve that.
Funny how everyone in the US hates Israel, yet our puppet government decides to go against the people and show love for them Zionist scum.