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Budget Cut Roulette – Is Israel on the Chopping Block?
Pending March 1rst Budget Cuts Provide Intrigues Galore
… by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor … and Press TV
I was surprised to get my early morning call from Press TV as 7:30 am is not prime time for me. Sometimes they will email a topic or a news story with a ten to fifteen minute window to collect some thoughts. But sometimes they are in a hurry and they just say ‘go’.
So enjoy some early morning, in my PJs (sweats), Jim Dean wisdomonic words of whatever. I thought they were going to trim off the AIPAC source part on the Christian Zionist donations to Israel…super huge. A book was forth coming but threats ran the source and I assume the publisher to ground.
The numbers are so huge that no one would believe them without her documents so we will have to wait for hopefully another day to get them.
We offered to put the numbers out if we had the documentation but the source wanted to hang onto the story which is certainly understandable. It was a heart breaker…but you can’t force someone to take risks because you can’t walk in their shoes.
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The audio link is below the image. Gordon had not trained me yet to do it the cool way yet.
For the live audio track with yawns removed, click here.
Press TV Interview – Saturday, February 16th, 2013
Do John Kerry, Obama and Chuck Hagel have the stuff to stand up to the Israel Lobby?
A political analyst says Secretary of State John Kerry was sending “a signal” when he said automatic budget cuts slated for March 1 would result in possible cuts to U.S. aids to Israel.
Kerry has said that cuts resulting from sequestration would be a huge threat to “national security,” and was quick to play the Israel card in defending his own department’s budget.
According to Kerry, the $2.6 billion cut in the budgets of the U.S. State Department and USAID would mean a few hundred million dollars in cuts in aids to foreign militaries, the largest of which goes to Israel.
“He [Kerry] said it and of course he didn’t need to say it, there was no reason for him to have to say this now.
He could have told them after if it happens and they have to have these big budget cuts then he could give them the bad news,” Jim W. Dean, managing editor and columnist at Veterans Today, said in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Saturday.
“I think it is definitely sending a signal,” he added.
Dean also said the amount of money that Christian-Zionists give Israel far surpasses what the U.S. government gives them.
Israel receives about $3 billion from the U.S. in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America’s foreign aid budget.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists guarantee billions of dollars in military aid for Israel each year.
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I await March 1st with bated breath. Many thanks for the interesting info.
Do John Kerry, Obama and Chuck Hagel have the stuff to stand up to the Israel Lobby? No.
Excerpt from an article:
“The start of the president’s second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Tuesday. “Additional details about the trip – including the dates of travel – will be released at a later time.”
“The U.S.-Israel relationship is stronger than ever, and today’s announcement about President Obama’s visit to Israel this spring further reaffirms this unbreakable bond between our two nations,” Ambassador Michael Oren wrote on his Facebook page.
Brian: Obama is eager to reaffirm the deep an endurding bonds between the United States and Israel, the country which gave us the evil event 911, what a moron.
Jim ,do you really think that israel’s income is based on what the Congress allots?
This upcoming budget cuts that will officially hit Israel is all spin.
The real cuts for Israel have already been going on for almost a year.
The European bankers have closed the tap.
You wrote a piece on Presstv about prisoner “X”,that stil didn’t get here on VT.
Do you really think that if there is a Mossad agent doing stuff that doesn’t convene Mossad ,Israel will imprison that man?
The Mossad will take care of that itself ,an accidental drowing,a heartattack ,a car accident etc.
This prisoner “X” case is part of a stream of leaks damaging the old guard in Israel.
Lieberman,Bibi-tours and icecream scandal,Sa’ar indicted for sexual misconduct.
Rafael Eitan said yesterday that are more prisoners “X”,today the A-G denied it,the A-G’s wife is indicted for employing a illegal foreigner working for her.
Non stop leaks and indictments.
Like Dean Henderson,who did research into the history of the Mossad,you have to keep in mind that the Mossad is ultimately controlled by the creators of Israel (Rothschild).
Much more likely that this Aussie spook was involved in operations damaging Israel ,following orders from London.
Much more surprising is that this stuff is on the street,when the Australian Govt.and his family are cooperating in the cover-up.
I’m a Dutch citizen,I have no Israeli identity papers.
I was arrested in Israel in June 2012,the Dutch Embassy was told nothing,and I was kept incommunicado for 2 weeks in Ramle prison,cameras 24 hours,no lawyer talking to me.
The Ambassador told me that Israel claimed i’m an Israeli,and the Embassy is not allowed to interfere ,because of NationalSecurity.
So israel disappearing foreigners for whatever reason ,without warning the Embassy is not unique as I can testify.
The israeli Embassy in Holland refused to give any info about me to my family.
This Prisoner “X” case is just one in a long list of leaks cornering Israel ,part of a coup d’etat in Israel.
Chances are that ,after leaks damaging the Likud ,Meth-anyahu will have no other choice than to start leaking unconvenient info about the European and US ,and their agents in Israel.
I’ve predicted this months ago on this site.
The situation in Israel is such that all these leaks will make the country ingovernable and another round of elections is the only way out.
before Meth-anyahu will be wasted ,he’ll release all he has,because he won’t let Bankercontrolled Lapid,Bennet,Livni,Mofaz,Stanley Fisher,Yachimovich take over the country.
Just like Likud tried a coup d’etat in the US through Romney,the Elite is pushing a coup d’etat in israel as payback.
Read Roytov for accurate info on current internal Israeli mechanisms and developments.
Prisoner “X” is a symptom for something much bigger.
It’s time for the “House of Rothchild” to step up and finance one of their own!
We can’t even get a pro U.S secretary of defense that cares about America before Israel. Do you really think they would be allowed to cut aid to Israel? It will probably increase no matter what.
America’s real allies would like America to survive and to do that it MUST CUT ITS MILITARY SPENDING.
Israel is most likely the only US ally country that wants the US to keep it military spending at current levels.
The US could easily cut its military spending, it could start by cutting back on the F35 Lockheed Martin’s three legged dog the F35.
The US has 2,500 marines in Darwin Australia – a total waste of US taxpayer money. Australia is AN ALLY, always has been.
And yes, Israel should have to stand on its own feet and not get hand outs from the US taxpayer.
If you look at who America’s allies are you will realise that every nut job that has ever previously started a war is now a US ally. The countries that are not allies are not worth worrying about.
The usual scam is for them to publish numbers on how many jobs will be lost. That has already started, and you have hardly heard a peep about cutting waste. And even the military is looking to screw disabled vets by blocking 100% disabilities so as to not have to pay the extra family benefits, full health case and college.
If that was such a big concern to them they should have pushed harder about not getting into stupid wars in stupid places just to justify the need for all their expensive high tech weaponry. But no, they now want to keep that stuff, like this new ‘Asian strategy, which keeps the navy budget way over what it needed, when there is no one out there that is serious threat.
And how do they justify the threats? They don’t. They just put the claim out there, and we sit back here waiting for them to get ripped to shreds with demands to provide, and as Gordon likes to say, our media, Congress, and even the vet orgs just lap up the vomit.
It makes me physically ill to watch all this going on day, after day, after day. And then when we put probes in a key places about really doing something to protect the country, what we often get back is ‘oh no, that would be too danergous…’they’ would get you. You know who ‘they’ are.
Great article Jim.
Thanks Jimmy, All the PressTV and radio we get is mostly due o to the Veterans Today work…where they see we are filling in where other choose to not go.
Another important article by VT Managing Editor and Columnist Jim Dean. A very good guess is that a lot of programs and foreign aid previously considered “sacred” will be eliminated due to international trade and monetary evaluation wars.
Once the cutbacks start the pace could accellerate rapidly and this alone could create major changes un American Foreign policy and the actual boundaries in several Mideast countries, with each accompanied by major transfers of associated power. Many surprises for the existing power structure involved will likely be quite unexpected and also surprising.