An American political analyst believes that Israel is entirely dependent on the United States in terms of financial support Tel Aviv needs for pursuing its military purposes.
Don DeBar made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Friday when asked about remarks by Secretary of State John Kerry who reaffirmed the US government’s unwavering support for Israel and the “Zionist dream.”
“No alliance of Israel’s is stronger than the one it shares with the United States of America," Kerry told a mainly Jewish audience during an event at the United Nations on Wednesday night.
“Times may change,” he said, “but one thing we do know, America’s support for Israel’s dream and Israel’s security--that will never change.”
DeBar said that “aside from the absurdity of that (Kerry’s remarks) in geopolitical terms, the complete absurdity of that in geopolitical terms, it also puts Kerry and the administration at odds with the bulk of public opinion in the United States even among Jewish Americans.”
Israel’s wars on Palestinians and “the atrocities that are committed on the ground by the police and other security forces in Israel against Palestinians make Israel appear to the people of the United States the same way that the police appear here to the people in the black community in the Unites States,” he said.
DeBar, a journalist and a radio host, also said that “Israel depends entirely on the United States, $3 billion a year is given to Israel by the United States, that is a tremendous amount of money that could be used for schools, education, healthcare and such in the United States, (but) instead it is going to be Israeli military.”
“After (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu left Washington apparently he is going to be getting about $5 billion a year from the United States,” he added.
Netanyahu met President Barack Obama for the first time in a year at the White House on Monday, and spent much of their time discussing ways to expand US military assistance to Israel.
Before leaving for Washington, he said he hoped to lay the groundwork for a new 10-year military aid package to Israel.
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