Reuters Barak: Israel may seek additional $20b. in US defense aid.

[Ponce]

Do you really believe this?, "those" people creates the problems an the we hame to pay of them......up till now 3 b plus, 10 billion in then years and now another 2 billions......they are using thie money to build settement and to buy land overea.........they aready have all the weapons that they need.
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Reuters Barak: Israel may seek additional $20b. in US defense aid.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
03/08/2011 08:44


Defense minister in interview: Aid will be used to guard from potential threats in light of changes, upheaval in MidEast.
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Israel may seek an additional $20 billion in US security assistance to help guard from the potential threats that could develop in light of recent changes occurring in the Middle East, the Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Tuesday.

Barak added that Israel should not fear the regional changes, or risk the opportunity to make potential concessions to the Palestinians for peace.

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Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Barak reinstated fears in Israel that Egypt's new leadership could teeter away from agreements made in the 1979 peace treaty, and that Iran and Syria may not succumb to the moderating factors in the Arab world that are bringing "Arab societies towards modernity."

The defense minister, speaking on Iran, said it was too early to tell whether or not the Islamic Republic was exploiting the regional upheaval to its benefit, adding that before the revolts Arab leaders were already "starting to hedge their bets on who is the strongest leader here, Iran or the United States."



Defense analysts reported that Israel spends roughly nine percent of its gross national product on defense, capping $17 billion this year, of which US aid is $3 billion. While Israel faces no immediate threat, Barak told the Wall Street Journal, it would have to increase spending in the long-term.

Barak mentioned that he had spoken with Egypt's chief of the military council Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who replaced Hosni Mubarak last month, and told him that the two countries shared responsibility "to avoid that our young people fight again." A different Egyptian leader, however, whom Barak did not name, said that Israel could expect a different attitude from the Egyptian government if Israel did not actively pursue peace with the Palestinians.

The defense minister told the Wall Street Journal that the Egyptian authority "told me 'We're going to have a really open election....Civic parties will hire advisers from the US and Europe and find immediately that what can bring them voters is hostility to America and Israel.'"







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http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=211231

[Twisted Titan]

The Capital of Usury "needs" your money

I would laugh my ass off if the implications werent so dam serious.

T

[mick silver]

why in god name would anyone in there right mind give them shit . when they own just about everything are dam close to it

[Twisted Titan]

Because it not what THEY HAVE........ its all about what YOU HAVE and how they can get it.

Nothing can satifisy them until its gone or in their possesion..... PERIOD.

That is Sociopathic Behavior at its Zenith

[Ponce]

As the old saying goes......."The one to die with the most toys is the winner"....I say, let's give them more toys :oo-->

[PatColo]

Cut dajooz some slack Ponce, they're a poor oppressed & victimized country. Quit being a hater.

Booming housing market in Israel stokes fears of bubble (http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/booming_housing_market_in_israel_stokes_fears_of_b ubble_20110222/) (jewishjournal.com)

Israel unlikely champ in global real estate (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_battling_the_bubble) (news.yahoo.com)

The sky's the limit for Israel housing bubble (http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=174292) (jpost.com)


hey maybe the israeli gummit could play their own lottery? They can't win if they don't play!

Israel lottery draws same numbers as 3 weeks before, 3 win £666,000 each (http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/israel-lottery-draws-same-numbers-as-3-weeks-before-3-win-666-000-each/)

[Low Pan]

A different Egyptian leader, however, whom Barak did not name, said that Israel could expect a different attitude from the Egyptian government if Israel did not actively pursue peace with the Palestinians.

about damn time

[ShortJohnSilver]

IN that time Jerusalem shall become a burdensome stone to all nations, or something like that ...

[PatColo]

Israel unlikely champ in global real estate (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_battling_the_bubble) (news.yahoo.com)


Y'all should really read this story-- I forgot I actually started a thread on it when it came out, reprinting the text:



Israel unlikely champ in global real estate (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101014/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_battling_the_bubble?source=patrick.net#y n-story)

By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 14, 7:18 am ET

JERUSALEM – Israel, despite perennial mongering of fears of war, has emerged as one of the hottest — and least likely — property markets in the world: Since real estate collapsed around the globe in 2008, at least one industry watchdog lists it as the fastest-rising property market on earth.

But with zio-engineered global economic meltdown — and the subprime mortgage zio-racket fiasco that precipitated it — still fresh in people's minds, officials are stepping up efforts to rein in its overheated property sector. The fear is that a property bubble could shake confidence in an economy that engineered & profiteered fabulously from withstood the worst of the world's financial crisis.

In the span of months, the central bank has raised interest rates several times and the government is rallying to build new illegal settlements units in this land-strapped country.

"The housing market has set off enough crises, and we're not going to let that happen in Israel," Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer said earlier this month in announcing his sixth rate hike in just over a year.

According to Global Property Guide, a trade magazine that monitors the housing market, Israeli housing prices in the second quarter of 2010 rose sixth-fastest in a ranking of 36 countries. Four of the top five, including Singapore and Latvia, were rebounding from sharp price drops. So looking at the past two years ended in June — the last period for which there is data — Israeli real estate clocks in at No. 1.

For Israel, where global usury, racketeering, fraud, blackmail, extortion, defamation, human/organ trafficking, war profiteering high-tech and science are booming businesses, the property price spike is the latest claim to fame. But it's one officials aren't boasting about, given ample evidence of how Israel was enriched by Madoff & Co money an imploding bubble can shatter decades of economic growth.

[Related: US foreclosure probe could force reform]

Examples of the danger of a zio-inflated overheated market litter the globe. From Dubai to Detroit, housing prices plummeted amid the global meltdown beginning in 2008. Defaults on mortgages surged in the United States while in Dubai, the one-time Arab boomtown, property prices tumbled by about 50 percent in 2009.

Amid that downturn, Israel laughed hysterically stood firm, shielded in part by the fact that its property price gains were late in coming. While many countries were on a property high during the middle part of the decade, its market was largely stagnant.

Its banks don't shyster fellow jooz offered nothing close to the U.S.-style subprime mortgages, and Israel's financial market is not intertwined with the mortgage market — the main reason for the zio-engineered U.S. housing meltdown. Down payment requirements remained high, often equal to more than 40 percent of a house's value.

Adding to the mix was a conservative local banking sector whose broader dislocation from the global goyim market helped to shield Israel from the worst of the global meltdown.

What fueled the boom, however, were the fruits of foreign shystering rock bottom interest rates and a relatively low supply of housing. The result was a nearly 30 percent jump in property prices since September 2008.

For Israelis, those gains are SWEET! hard to swallow.

After extensive house hunting, Ami Kaufman and his wife stopped looking at the "good" neighborhoods of Tel Aviv: At $600,000 for an unrenovated, three-bedroom measuring about 1,000 square feet (100 meters), it's simply out of reach.

Instead, the couple are looking at a working-class area in the hope it will eradicate the gentile scum residents gentrify like other down-and-out Tel Aviv neighborhoods did. They're hoping to find something within the year, before they're pummeled by rising mortgage prices on top of rising housing prices.

"The problem ... is demand versus supply," Kaufman said. "Too many people want apartments. Nothing is going to stop the New World Order these rises."

Housing supply, says Vered Dar, chief economist at the Psagot-Ofek investment house in Tel Aviv, was "thrown out of whack" by the mass immigration of some one million immigrants from the Soviet Union 20 years ago. Housing starts surged excessively in the ensuing years, leaving contractors and the government struggling to find a balance.

Over the past five to six years, "they didn't build enough illegal settlements," she said, adding that housing was not something that could be imported to balance supply and demand.

"It takes time," she said.

But it's time that Israelis, increasingly, can't afford.

Today, a three-bedroom apartment in Tel Aviv, with its beaches, balmy weather and abundant foreign sex slave brothels freewheeling spirit, fetched an average 2.15 million shekels, or $560,000, in June, compared with 1.73 million shekels a year earlier, according to government statistics.

The price of an average apartment in Jerusalem, with its holy sites and mixture of ancient and new illegal settlements, rose 19 percent to 1.55 million shekels, or $403,000, at the end of June from 1.31 million shekels a year earlier.

The prices seem out of sync with the average income in a country where the per capita GDP of some $30,000 is around the OECD average, but with all that sweet US taxpayer "foreign aid" cash, taxes are very high.

Parents, once able to buy their children apartments outright or give big chunks of down payments, are no longer able to do so. Even professionals are struggling to come up with the cash for housing. As a result, many find themselves simply unable to buy or are compromising on their dream houses.

The central bank's efforts to rein in prices with interest rate hikes have provoked government resistance, with the Finance Ministry worried that Fischer's rate hikes could hurt the economy by strengthening the shekel against world currencies and battering the vital export-oriented high-tech industry.

But officials have also not sat idle. The country's skyline is dotted with apartment towers and cranes, and a recent reform in the government-run Israel Lands Administration is designed to steal more land from Arabs free up more land for construction.

Even before that reform was enacted, housing starts were up more than 20 percent in the second quarter of 2010 from the first three months of the year. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, however, told a business conference on Tuesday that it would take up to two years to solve the supply-side problem.

Dar, the economist, has long disputed assessments that Israel was experiencing a housing bubble. She describes it as "more babble than bubble" because the recent boom follows roughly a decade of stagnant prices in inflation-adjusted terms.

If prices continue to rise at the current pace, however, "it will start to bubble," she said, while predicting that price rises would taper off as supply increases and interest rates climb.

There are signs that might already be happening: Shekel-denominated prices in the second quarter of the year inched down 1 percent from the first quarter.

[Bullion_Bob]

They probably make 10 times that off the global kosher racket.

Send them a bucket of wet shit. Let them kosher certify that, and sell it to someone. They can keep 10% of the profits for their troubles.

[Trinity]

I bet anyone the new Republican "Tea party" budget slashers won't touch this spending issue. If they do I will eat a bug!

[PatColo]

Surely you all caught this leading story on FAUX News, CNN, etc, hell it was wall to wall coverage, right?


March 07, 2011
[US Taxpayer Provided] Israeli Jets Level University Buildings in Gaza (http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/7/headlines/israeli_jets_level_university_buildings_in_gaza)

In news from Gaza, Israeli F-16 fighter jets have bombed a number of buildings under construction at the Islamic University in Gaza City. No one was injured in the attack, but schools officials questioned why Israel would bomb an educational facility.

Salah El Aide, building supervisor: "At night, F-16 jets struck the building. We do not know anything besides this, why it was struck, the reason. We have nothing military here. This is a building that belongs to an educational institution that has no relation to anything. We are very surprised that it was struck."

[Ponce]

I guess that you guys dind't read yesterday article about the state of Israel becoming one of the biggest land owner in the world?........I have been telling you this for a while now............besides that, the "aid" that the US keeps on giving to the state of Israel is nothing more than a "silver cord" that unites them.