Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL
The US Congress has recently passed a bill giving Israel $38 billion over 10 years in military assistance, making it the largest to any of US’ allies.
Israel hailed the deal as historic, and historic it is for this country that continues to defy international law by colonising occupied Palestinian territories and avoiding discussing peace while claiming to crave it.
The size of the US assistance will not only increase Israel’s defences, but also bolster its offensive capability across the entire Middle East.
This increased military assistance for Israel comes amidst heightened tensions with Iran, wars in Syria and Yemen, chaos in Iraq and uncertainties surrounding the terrorist group Daesh, whose now-retreating, now-expanding nature points to either its strength or the lack or resoluteness on the part of the international community to give it a fatal blow.
The aid has strategic and moral value for Israel, whose prime minister acts with impunity, snubbing the US president and receiving an even bigger aid as a reward.
It is touted as strategic by the US as well; the country has deployed military resources to defeat Daesh and to keep an eye on Iran, so propping up Israel, its main ally in the region, supplements the strategic US political and military efforts in the Middle East.
But providing Israel with so much “military assistance” also sends a message, not an encouraging one, to be sure, to the Arabs, especially the Palestinians, who are still waiting for a fair solution to their cause.
Israel will have no incentive to sue for genuine peace with the Palestinians as long as it enjoys a huge military superiority and the backing of the greatest power in the world.
Had this military assistance been made contingent on the signing of a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, neither the Palestinians nor the Arab countries would have a cause to fear it.
But as is, the immense aid package is just a sign of US weakness and a reward to a country that considers itself above the law and gets away with it, repeatedly.
SOURCE: http://jordantimes.com/opinion/editorial/rewarding-arrogance-and-disregard-humanitarian-law
Categories: Arab World, Israel, Palestine, United States
This is a blatant recurring act deliberately snubbing the UN/rest of the world by a young, fast tracked country that shows a childish lack of regard/knowledge/experience in dealing with external affairs. It is a country brought up on Christianity and is therefore standing on a false, personalised, foundation; that being Judaism in the guise of Christianity.