"To get ahead of the changing sentiments, Israel and their American allies, like U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, are attempting to rebrand the aid we give to Israel each year.

Rather than the annual Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlays, anything we give Tel Aviv will be "based on trade," according to Huckabee.

The goal of this shift is to undermine the notion that Israel is dependent on American hand-outs and that the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bill for the horrific scenes coming out of Gaza and Lebanon. There is, of course, a major catch.

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"The catch is Section 224, cleverly buried deep in the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is entitled "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative."

This initiative transitions the traditional aid relationship into a deeper partnership between the U.S. and Israel in many aspects of technological research and development and defense production, and would also give Israel unprecedented access to U.S. technology development and "data fusion."

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much more at the thread link on this, Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham

Trump Admin giving new meaning to the book and speech by Maj. General, Smedley Darlington Butler, the most decorated Marine in history, War is a Racket:

"Our boys were sent off to die with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die." " General Smedley Butler

short speech read by someone else: