Israel has given final approval for a multibillion-dollar deal to buy two new combat squadrons of advanced F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from United States manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the Ministry of Defence says. Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Procurement signed off on the deal as the initial phase of a 350-billion-shekel ($119bn) programme to boost the country’s armed forces and “strengthen readiness ahead of a demanding decade for Israeli security”, it said on Sunday.
“Alongside immediate wartime procurement needs, we have a responsibility to act now to secure the [military’s] edge 10 years from now and beyond,” Defence Ministry Director General Amir Baram said. The continuing US-Israel war on Iran “reinforced just how critical the US-Israel strategic relationship is and how essential advanced air power remains”, he added. Under the deal, Israel would buy a fourth F-35 squadron from Lockheed Martin and a second squadron of F-15IA fighter jets from Boeing. In December, Boeing was given an $8.6bn contract for Israel, including 25 new F-15IAs and an option for 25 more.
So nice of them to purchase weapons from the US with money provided by the US to continue their genocide and attacking every country around them.
Someone please Make it make sense!
Federal money goes into the pockets of US corporations, spare weapons using the same tech “mysteriously” show up around the world in the hands of extremist groups the US openly condemns, and everyone involved gets to pat themselves on the backs for “supporting the Jewish people” as their stock portfolios climb.
They also get to participate in the research and development of these aircraft so they get the tech as well as the machines!!
“ahead of a demanding decade”… Stop creating this demand by maybe respecting human rights, stop killing children, end your Apartheid regime. Nah, more fighter jets.
Such unexpected news!
So that was the reason trump is helping netanyahu to go to war with Iran. Hmph.
Why don’t we just be honest, Israel is like a colony of the US in the middle east. You pay us for weapons with money we paid you so you can spread “freedom”.
Imperial centers exploited their colonies. What we have here is the reverse…
Ask the average Mizrahi restaurant worker living in a moldy studio sublet in Rehovoth what good that weapon money is doing them. The upper classes of both countries make out just fine, everyone else suffers.
Imperial boomerang effect; if you exploit nearby peoples, eventually you’ll end up doing it on your own as well.
Oh, the white supremacy even against other Jews was there from the beginning. It’s a real mess.
Its simply a large US military base wrapped in a religious flag used to deter all critisicm.
Now they’ll be able to mass murder babies and children much more effectively!
*more stealthy
Likely made with some parts manufactured in Canada
