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2019-11-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Dan Shapiro: Military assistance to Israel also serves U.S. interests
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[Jpost] Ensuring that Israel has capabilities to defend itself against regional threats serves Israel’s interests, but also serves the United States’ interest, says former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro.
Speaking in a conference call hosted Friday by the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA), Shapiro addressed the discussion within the Democratic Party about conditioning aid to Israel as a leverage to change the government’s policies.
"There is an enormous amount of sharing of intelligence," said the former ambassador. "Israeli intelligence has high-quality technology; Israeli technology is high quality; joint training ‐ our forces training with Israel and learning from them as they learned from us. Benefits and this relationship flow both ways. And so, in that regard, the US assistance program to Israel is not an act of altruism. While it is certainly generous on the part of the American taxpayers, and we should feel good about it, and it has saved many lives particularly with programs like Iron Dome, it is also something that very much serves our interests."
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Asked about the argument of candidates (such as Pete Buttigieg
 ...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
) about conditioning aid as a form to make sure Israel is not using funds to promote the annexation of the West Bank, Shapiro said that most of the money is being used to deal with regional threats.
"At the beginning of the fiscal year, the funds are provided to Israel," he said. "And almost all those funds go into long-term purchases of major US military systems. F-15, F-16, F-35, various helicopter platforms, tanks various munitions. The vast majority material is really aimed to counter not threats that emerge from the Paleostinian arena ‐ although somewhat you could argue from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
‐ but from Syria, Leb, Hezbollah, Iran, the further future threats and certainly the missile defense programs also fall very much into that category. So the notion of this assistance being kind of means of implementing an annexation policy ‐ there’s really not a direct connection, simply not the way we generally calculate how our foreign aid is conducted.
"We certainly can and should advocate and be vocal and use various forms of leverage agents but by no means the only form of leverage to try to have countries not do things that we deem not to be in our interest," he continued. "But that is not generally how we’ve calculated it to say that because we were providing funds for one activity [it] supports a different activity."
Halie Soifer, executive director of JDCA, said that it was important to host the conversation to understand better where Democrats stand on Israel.
"With the 2020 election less than a year away, we are already seeing more Republican attempts to misrepresent where Democrats stand on Israel and ongoing attempts by the president and others to use Israel as a political wedge issue," she said. "These efforts have underscored the importance of understanding the facts about where Democrats stand on Israel and current dynamics affecting the US Israel relationship, including the future of the US aid to Israel. This is a critically important role that JDCA is playing, refuting false narratives with facts, including about where candidates and elected officials stand on Israel." 
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