"SKINFLINT" CONGRESS COUGHS UP ONLY $56 FOR EACH ISRAELI CITIZEN

Congress voting to give each Israeli citizen a mere 15 cents a day in pork-barrel spending for US arms makers.

By our Neocon Desk:

What's wrong with those skinflints in Congress? While they're more than happy to splash out an enormous $600 on every workshy undeserving US citizen (a whopping $196,800,000,000 FFS!!!), they are only giving noble Israel a measly $500 million in total in the latest omnibus spending bill.

This is a pathetic 0.25% of the money being given directly to average Americans, and works out at a piffling and insulting $56 dollars per Israeli citizen -- or only 15 cents a day.

Is Congress actually trying to be Anti-Semitic? Because this is what it feels like.

Even worse, unlike the cold hard cash that Americans will eventually be able to go out and spend online at Amazon, this funding for Israel will not be doled out to individual citizens. Instead it will just go on missile defence, with most of the money simply ending up back in the USA in the pockets of fat cat U.S. arms manufacturers and their overpaid and lazy workers. 

As explained by the Jewish Telegraph Agency:

What those reactions missed was that the $500 million allocation was neither a surprise nor part of the $900 billion pandemic relief bill. It is included in the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill, a separate piece of legislation, passed at the same time in a desperate legislative effort to keep the government operating and get pandemic relief to President Donald Trump’s desk before the year is out.

To understand why the $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation — along with thousands of other items unrelated to pandemic relief — ended up in the budget document revealed to Americans Monday night requires a solid grasp on the way Congress always does its work. (Israel, under an agreement it concluded with the Obama administration since 2016, gets a total of $3.8 billion every year: $3.3 billion for defense assistance and $500 million for missile defense cooperation.)

Basically, crafty U.S. politicians have taken the average American's deep love of Israel and turned it into a massive weapons program that can then be used to dump pork barrel spending in their constituencies ensuring their reelection.

Is this really any way to treat America's "greatest ally"?

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In other news, Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy analyst who served three decades in prison for leaking thousands of classified documents to Israel, received a hero's welcome in Tel Aviv after being released from parole: