[Spartacus]

[SIZE=16px]If the funding is approved, it will add to the $486 million the United States has already provided for Iron Dome missile defense systems protecting Israel.[/SIZE]




[SIZE=14px]The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency's budget for 2014 contains, for the first time in its regular annual budget, funding for the purchase of newIron Dome missile defense systems for Israel, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=14px]According to the Missile Defense Agency budget documents posted online last week, the agency seeks $220 million for missile batteries for Israel during fiscal year 2014, which starts in October, and an additional $175.9 million in 2015.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=14px]The Missile Defense Agency's budget still has to make its way through the United States' Congress before one can say that the funding has been approved. If it is approved, it will be added to the $486 million already provided to Israeli Iron Dome missile defense systems by the U.S. government over the past few years.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=14px]These funds are “new money," Missile Defense Agency spokesman Richard Lehner wrote Bloomberg in an e- mail. "It is the first time funding specifically for Iron Dome procurement has been requested in our budget submission.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=14px]The Iron Dome is an air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense System, designed to intercept short-range rockets and mortar shells. Israel deployed the system first in the south in April 2011 to intercept rockets from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli-developed system uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and is supposed to shoot them down within seconds of their launch.[/SIZE]


tl;dr US funds Iron Dome missile defense for Israel, which are designed by Israel.

[SIZE=14px]http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-de...m-1.515853[/SIZE]

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[video=youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=CPO_IFrs6WA[/video]

the defense system looks kickass anyway

[cucubelu]

Meanwhile the US military are cutting out the educational programs and training equipment for their own troops... what a fucking joke...

What are the benefits protecting israel?

[cucubelu]

Limited bases in Turkey leaves Israel as the only 100% trust able ally in the smack middle of a lot of uncertain countries. Aka, non Islamic country surrounded by Islamic nations.
It is strategical launch point for US, and a perfect cover op base of operations for Seals that operate in that region.
   

That's cool. So that's the reason israel has one of the most advance military force in the world.

[Spartacus]

i've read there's a strong Israel/Zionist lobby in the US.

[Ghosty]

The only reason why Israel never get punished for their attack on Palestine is because US is behind them and backing them up .

[video=youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=RWJFC98jPrQ[/video]

[Spartacus]

What are the benefits protecting israel?

Anthony Lawson's video.

A lucid video by a gifted commentator and communicator. Anthony Lawson (known professionally as Tony Lawson) is a retired international-prize-winning commercials director, cameraman, ad agency creative director, and voice over. He used to be known for shooting humorous commercials, but doesn’t find much to laugh about, with the way the world is going, these days. He focuses not on Islam versus Judaism or Christianity, nor Arabs versus Israelis per se, but more on Zionism versus the very essential principles embodied by the Bill of Rights of the USA.


Some of the viewers' comments are almost as thought-provoking. "Knowledge leads to victory, and in many parts of the developed world today, these peoples stand to perish for lack of knowledge."

His answer at 11 min mark.
[video=youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=eptPeSmA37U[/video]

allies with benefits eh. U.S protecting israel, israel giving nuclears.