The State Department today released a fact sheet called "Deepening U.S.-Israel Security Ties Advances Prospects for Comprehensive Peace."
The ass kissing that is in this fact sheet is beyond anything I've ever seen. Read it all (it's not long) and you'll realize that the Obama administration has done more for Israel than any other administration.
How sad...especially for those of us who got duped and voted for "Mr. Change."
Here's the fact sheet:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
For Immediate
Release
July 16, 2010
2010/963
FACT
SHEET
Deepening
U.S.-Israel Security Ties Advances Prospects for Comprehensive Peace
“Regional peace must begin with the
recognition by every party that the United States will always stand
behind Israel’s security… no lasting peace will be possible unless that
fact
is accepted.”
Secretary
Of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, April 29, 2010
Under the Obama Administration, the
United States has significantly expanded its longstanding commitment to
Israel’s security, ensuring that Israel has the means not only to defend
itself against the full spectrum of complex security challenges it
faces, but to ensure that Israel’s legitimate security needs are met in
ways that enable it to take the historic steps necessary to achieve a
comprehensive regional peace.
·
Israel is the leading beneficiary of
U.S. security assistance funds for military training and equipment.
This year, Congress fully funded the Obama Administration’s $2.775
billion security
assistance request for Israel − the largest security assistance request
for Israel in U.S. history.
·
Over the past year, the United States
and Israel have expanded bilateral security consultations and
cooperation on a wide range of shared security challenges, from
counterterrorism and
preventing illicit arms smuggling into Gaza to counter-proliferation.
·
Israeli forces also benefit from joint
exercises and training opportunities, access to advanced U.S. military
hardware, emergency stockpiles, and free or discounted equipment.
·
The United States has committed for more
than 30 years to helping Israel maintain its qualitative military edge –
defined in terms of Israel’s ability to counter and defeat credible
military
threats from any individual state, coalition of states or non-state
actors, while sustaining minimal damage or casualties. In 2008, this
longstanding policy was written into law, and has since become the
cornerstone of the U.S.-Israeli security relationship.
·
The United States and Israel have long
cooperated in research and development of defense systems. The Obama
Administration is building on this partnership by asking Congress to
approve
$205 million to support production of Israeli-developed short range
rocket defense system called Iron Dome.
·
As U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East
Peace George Mitchell has said, “American commitment and determination
are essential to the preservation of a sovereign and secure Israel and
to the
peaceful and just resolution of the conflict in the Middle East. There
is as elsewhere a universal human desire to lead lives that are full,
free and meaningful.”
A transcript is available at
http://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/rm/144753.htm, or you can watch at
http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=129222649001.
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