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2024-10-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US spent a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7

[IsraelTimes] The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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...
began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’ attacks on Israel.

An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up US military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, researchers say in findings first provided to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s, who claim to be carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed terror group Hamas.

The financial costs were calculated by Linda J. Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, who has assessed the full costs of US wars since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and fellow researchers William D. Hartung and Stephen Semler.

Much of the US weapons delivered in the year were munitions, from artillery shells to 2,000-pound bunker-busters and precision-guided bombs.

Expenditures range from $4 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems to cash for rifles and jet fuel, the study says.

Unlike the United States’ publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, it was impossible to get the full details of what the US has shipped Israel since last Oct. 7, so the $17.9 billion for the year is a partial figure, the researchers say.
"Really, a Wild-Assed-Guess"
They cited Biden administration "efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering."

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-08 2024-10-08 03:19|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 At least we can see they used it. Probably some leakage of 10% to the Big Guy, but some terrorists are being killed.

Posted by Regular+joe 2024-10-08 11:32|| 2024-10-08 11:32|| Front Page Top

#2 over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-08 12:31|| 2024-10-08 12:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Rafael to unveil short range laser defense for ground force
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Announced on Tuesday that it will be showcasing its latest defense capabilities at the defense AUSA exhibition October 14-16 in Washington D.C., including a new Lite Beam laser-based interception system integrated into the Trophy multitasking defense platform.

While not as much of a watershed moment as when Israel can finally deploy its Iron Beam laser defense system, the Lite Beam is still a powerful example of Israel succeeding in using layers, at least for short-range defense.

Defense sources told the Jerusalem Post that the Lite Beam’s operational capabilities have been proven, though they declined to disclose exactly when and how the IDF has used such capabilities in the field in Gaza or Lebanon.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-08 12:40|| 2024-10-08 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I think Lite Beam is mainly to protect tanks and personnel carriers.

I am hopeful the IDF will eventually be able to mount Iron Beam on a UAV with long air time. If it could do that it could destroy Hamas or Hezbollah or Houthi or Iran missiles in the boost phase. Seems to be impossible to me but perhaps the IDF will find a way.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-10-08 18:49|| 2024-10-08 18:49|| Front Page Top

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