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How US Pays Israel To Kill Palestinians July 17, 2015 Allan Masri International Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has played the US Congress like a violin. He’s now ready to collect what he calls his compensation for the treaty with Iran. Again and again, Netanyahu has told the US Congress that the current treaty is a disaster for Israel. Now he is speaking to them through an anonymous official, but the message remains the same: “Within ten years, Iran will have a short nuclear breakout time, and until then it will continue funding terrorism, using the billions it will receive.” I wondered, when Netanyahu visited the US and addressed the Congress, if he understood the limited power that outfit has when it comes to foreign policy. Now it becomes apparent that he does understand the role of Congress, but it has nothing to do with the treaty. It’s all about the Benjamins. This whole production about how scared Israel is of big, bad Iran was always intended to convince the US Congress to fork over more cash to Israel. Here’s the message is delivered by a different, but still anonymous source: “There is no point in criticising the administration for now, because soon we will need to speak with the Americans about the amount of compensation to Israel.” This treaty is doing exactly what Israel wants, stopping the Iranian nuclear program. Why should Israel get compensation for that? Netanyahu explains (this time speaking with his own voice): “Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world. This is a bad mistake of historic proportions.” In its brief history, Israel has received $124 billion in aid from the US taxpayers. This amount does not count the trillions the US will pay for wars in the region, but these wars were waged on behalf of Israel, at least in part. After all, Osama bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan, 3,954 miles from Jerusalem. But the US Army overthrew Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, just 1,630 miles from Jerusalem. In 2007, Congress passed a bill providing $30 billion in aid to Israel, nearly all of it military. Much of that money comes right back to the US military industrial complex. Israel has additionally requested 50 “bunker-buster” bombs and the means to deliver them, in an arms package worth about $1.8 billion. When the current Israeli aid bill expires in 2017. Netanyahu expects the US Congress to deliver a massive payoff to Israel as “compensation” for the damage he claims the Iranian nuclear treaty will do to his country. He will likely get it, too, despite the screaming that US Republicans have done about the high cost of foreign aid. In return, Obama is likely to ask for further raises in taxes on the wealthy. Don’t be surprised if he gets that, too.