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The Obama administration’s $3.2 billion annual military aid has been suspended due to the U.S. government shutdown over the debt ceiling. The sum for 2104 was to be transferred to Israel on October 1, but this is not the first time budget crises in the United States have delayed aid to Israel.
“We are not talking about a specific step regarding Israel,” Israel’s Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, Eli Groner, told Globes. “There is no budget for most government activities because there is no Budget Act or decision for a continuing resolution for ongoing financing for the coming financial year, and that includes the budget for foreign aid.
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O is a bastard. We make a promise to Israel. Past time to get this lying self centered muslim out of office.
But not to our enemy countries and other terrorists?
But not to our enemy countries and other terrorists?
Israel is better off without and all the strings that come attached with it. Better to be sovereign ~
GOD Doesn’t need Anyone’s help to Protect Israel!! Not even Israel’s. HE Is Able!!
But not to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood ? Says volumes !
Not surprised with this A.H.in the W.H.
They need to cut off ALL aid to the parasites that infest Greater Palestine. Jews are the most evil group of maggots that have ever existed!
Has he suspended it to the other countries as well?
Yet, money to the arabs who do not need it since we are buying their oil still flows
Obama hates Israel, everyone in the United States of America knows it. If not for George W. Bush making sure Israel received aid until 2016 (after Burrack is out of office) Israel would have been cut off long ago by the Burrack Hussein Obama.