Should the U.S. government end support to Israel?

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45. Transferring taxpayer

dollars into the MIC is one of them.


Increased support for Israel opens more doors for Raytheon

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And that could give Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems — a key contractor in U.S. missile defense and already a partner on some Israeli missile-defense projects — a bigger role in the region and welcome new business.

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But even as the agreement on co-production is being finalized, Congress is poised to pour hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars into the program.

A defense-spending bill passed by the House in June and a similar measure awaiting floor action in the Senate roughly doubles to $351 million Iron Dome funding the Pentagon had requested for fiscal 2015.

And just last week, congressional budgeters proposed an emergency appropriation — sought by the Pentagon at Israel’s request — of $225 million to help Israel buy more interceptors for its Iron Dome anti-rocket system, which Israel credits with intercepting most of the rockets it has targeted.

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