US to purchase $700m worth of arms from Israel

[Scurrilous]

Source: Ynetnews

Weapons and technological systems to be acquired from Jewish state's defense industries include navigation and attack sensor system for combat aircraft, UAV and advanced pilot helmets

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"The US Congress on Friday approved the purchase of weapons and technological systems from Israel's defense industries for $700 million.

The advanced technological products will be acquired as part of the American security budget for the coming year to be used by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The purchase of weapons from Israel is not part of Israel's annual defense aid from the United States, which amounts to $2.4 billion and is expected to grow in 2009 to an annual average of $3 billion for the following 10 years.

Only one part of the security budget – the production of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system and the research and development of other defense missiles, the cost of which is estimated at $155 million – is related to special US aid, with the American Boeing company involved in the manufacturing of parts of the Arrow missile."

Read more: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3469677,00.html

[aquart]

1. Something else we no longer make at home?

[MessiahRp]

5. Exactly my thought...

The one part of Government that has NOT been underfunded has been military contracts. There's no reason we should have to buy anything from any other country.

This group is just sickening.

Rp

[ManiacJoe]

10. You make it sound like you would be surprised

to learn that we buy electronics from multiple Asian countries....

[MessiahRp]

13. Electronics are totally different than military hardware...

We spend more money than all other countries in the world COMBINED on military spending and military contracts and give the Israelis foreign aid to finance their military. There's no way in the world we should ever need to buy an ounce of hardware from anywhere else.

If so then there's a lot of contracts we need to start taking refunds on.

Rp

[sarcasmo]

16. If I remember right we don't even make our own bullets.

[saigon68]

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Every shop owner in amerika should own one

To immediately Zap the ski-masked robber trying to take away her/his livelyhood




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[pinniped]

2. Isn't this like paying back someone YOU gave money to?

?

[fenriswolf]

3. actually we prob gave them the weapons and are now purchasing

them back, what a fiscally responsable party.

[sss1977]

4. oh nice

I bet all those radical Muslims being created in Iraq love the idea of Jewish-armed American soldiers even more than they already love our being there in the first place. What a fantastic idea...

[roxnev]

6. The best Military in the world

Has to buy armament from some other country.

[alllyingwhores]

7. Yeah, from some other country that we're already giving billions to...

Seriously, the least they could do is buy weapons from us with the billions of taxpayer money that we continue to throw at them.

[Scurrilous]

8. How war was turned into a brand (June 16, 2007)

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"Gaza in the hands of Hamas, with masked militants sitting in the president's chair; the West Bank on the edge; Israeli army camps hastily assembled in the Golan Heights; a spy satellite over Iran and Syria; war with Hizbullah a hair trigger away; a scandal-plagued political class facing a total loss of public faith. At a glance, things aren't going well for Israel. But here's a puzzle: why, in the midst of such chaos and carnage, is the Israeli economy booming like it's 1999, with a roaring stock market and growth rates nearing China's?

Thomas Friedman recently offered his theory in the New York Times. Israel "nurtures and rewards individual imagination", and so its people are constantly spawning ingenious hi-tech start-ups, no matter what messes their politicians are making. After perusing class projects by students in engineering and computer science at Ben-Gurion University, Friedman made one of his famous fake-sense pronouncements. Israel "had discovered oil". This oil, apparently, is located in the minds of Israel's "young innovators and venture capitalists", who are too busy making megadeals with Google to be held back by politics.

Here's another theory. Israel's economy isn't booming despite the political chaos that devours the headlines but because of it. This phase of development dates back to the mid-90s, when the country was in the vanguard of the information revolution - the most tech-dependent economy in the world. After the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, Israel's economy was devastated, facing its worst year since 1953. Then came 9/11, and suddenly new profit vistas opened up for any company that claimed it could spot terrorists in crowds, seal borders from attack, and extract confessions from closed-mouthed prisoners.

Within three years, large parts of Israel's tech economy had been radically repurposed. Put in Friedmanesque terms, Israel went from inventing the networking tools of the "flat world" to selling fences to an apartheid planet. Many of the country's most successful entrepreneurs are using Israel's status as a fortressed state, surrounded by furious enemies, as a kind of 24-hour-a-day showroom, a living example of how to enjoy relative safety amid constant war. And the reason Israel is now enjoying supergrowth is that those companies are busily exporting that model to the world.

Discussions of Israel's military trade usually focus on the flow of weapons into the country - US-made Caterpillar bulldozers used to destroy homes in the West Bank, and British companies supplying parts for F-16s. Overlooked is Israel's huge and expanding export business. Israel now sends $1.2bn in "defence" products to the United States - up dramatically from $270m in 1999. In 2006, Israel exported $3.4bn in defence products - well over a billion more than it received in American military aid. That makes Israel the fourth largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain."

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[hack89]

9. We have bought several systems from Israel

targeting pods, missiles and UAVs. They make good high tech stuff that is combat tested.


http://www.defense-update.com/directory/litening.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-142_Have_Nap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-2_Pioneer

[Larry Ogg]

11. So let me get this strait

We “give” Israel billions of borrowed dollars a year in aid, increasing our debt with interest, turn around and “buy” weapons made in Israel with borrowed money increasing our debt with interest, because American jobs have been outsourced too uhmm let me guess Israel.

Why can’t Israel borrow money and increase their own debt with interest just like our government does, ore are we protecting some kind of intellectual bank robbing and economy destroying warfare knowledge that we don’t want to fall into foreign hands or what?

:shrug:

[Clanfear]

12. In joint operations Israel has been punking us

For a good long while. I would hope they would share this technology.

[Doctor_J]

14. Pssh. That's only 2 days of occupation of Iraq

not even in the noise of *'s bloated budget.

[Solar_Power]

15. Clever way to funnel $$$$ to Israel

without making muslims angry

[dapoopta2]

17. get them out of their hands

Get them out of their hands and into ours!