if Israel takes the money she cannot then turn round and complain about US interference

to big brass...!!! Can we really afford billions of shekels a year just to line their pockets?

This is an outrage. America is broke with a trillion dollar plus deficit and it is handing money out like candy to foreign nations, while it''s own military is facing post-world war 2 style budget cuts and it's infrastructure is crumbling. This is insanity at it's highest level. Israel is a wealthy country that could afford to increase its defense budget by 4 billion a year to offset American aid. If America can spend 50 plus billion a month as broke as it is, Israel can spend 300 million dollar a month. Obama also has to take in account that BIBI is the most anti-American PM that Israel has ever had and he is not fond of black people which is a slap in the face to all Americans.

also widow and handicapped pensions. Although it is clear that soldiers wounded or killed in combat, training or operational activity need special consideration, the army is overly generous to people who are hurt whole doing normal jobs in uniform.

Please Big Daddy, can we have some more? Every cent we take from the USA means we are more beholden to their agenda, which is not ours (e.g preventing a nuclear Iran). Another sad day in Israel. Time to get our house in order by shrinking the ever-growing government machine.

Publicly blast the hell out of the US for local political gain, and then come begging to us for more money... smooth. Good luck with that.

Israel has like 90 billion USD in currency reserves. This is just rhetoric to a piece of that action.

then cut off payments to the Hamas and the PLO. You will have plenty. Don't ever pretend you need future American aid. That's what BIBI and our enemies want us to believe. Bibi wants us to believe that because we need America, he has no choice but to give in to their demands. That's all this is about.

All of Israel's budgetary problems are caused by excess spending necessitated by two decisions: Peres' Oslo Accords and Sharon's destruction of Gush Katif. Not only were these moves idiotic, they also cost far more than Israel can afford.

The United States should condition future military aid on the removal of settlements. We Israelis have to decide whether our Defence is dependent primarily on weaponry or settlements. If we don't decide, then the American will do it for us

How does someone (like me) make a direct financial contribution to the IDF? Thanks, Jason

NOW is the time to cut of US military aid to "Israel" for all time. Then the Zionist entity will begin to wither on the vine, or even be put down after all of these years of its illicit existence. America: Strike while the iron is hot!

Obama will be light-years more free to do what he truly believes after the midterm elections, even if GOP becomes an even greater obstacle. Foreign Policy constitutionally belongs to our President, as well as our military. Hillary can openly disagree with policies & decisions she may privately agree. O [& Hillary] passionately believes that decades of military occupation of millions of indigenous peoples is clearly against core American Values, hence our USA should not enable it, but should aggressively end it ...

Israel was/is/will be able, in this/that way, to do even without U.S. aid to function/to exist, apart from bi-lateral relation, with the U.S.( for example, also in this/that case). Also, Israel, forever, ever and always!

Whatever it takes, Israel must end reliance on U.S. aid. The costs to Israeli sovereignty are far too high. If we use our marvellous world leading creativity, we can certainly find ways to solve this problem. We solved Entebbe. We solved Iraqi and Syrian nukes. We can solve this too.

the defense of the country is more important than anything so not one penny more to the settlers/settlements and of course cut off all funds to the Haridim and their schools and yeshivot. The poor and old will understand if nothing comes to them but i do feel that the sums are so vast there will be something for them. Time to get rid of the fascists in Beit Yehudi, they are worse than Shas for how much funds they divert to their causes.

and 1% of Israel's GDP.

countries do and take our money and call us the Great Satan. We give money to Muslim countries and don't make demands on them. Money or not Israel has plenty to complain about. God will bless those that bless Israel.

...to pay $3Billion a year for the privilege of protecting Israel from their Muslim enemies. Fighting anti-Zionist global terror, 9/11, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Iran. "Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day, as a punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work." -Wikipedia, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Pay for your own military equipment and go fight your own wars. Fifty million Americans are on government food aid. As many or more lack any medical insurance coverage. Millions are unemployed and probably will never obtain any sort of worthwhile job. The roads, bridges and national infrastructure are failing. American money should be for Americans.

Wrong. Israel should stop spending on settlements and the settlers. Moreover Israel should stop occupying Palestinian lands and building on other lands. Just imagine what happens when Abbas dismantles the PLO and changes Israel's population from 8 million to 11.5 million.

Always happy to equip Israeli forces with the finest systems & weaponry on the planet, but that requires Israel to bounce along with US goals and agenda. That is the true price. There is no escaping it.

Yalla Ya'alon before Hagel cancells the visit. Wearing a tie is not enough, yalla, yalla.

Well why not it the done thing in the third world

USA is financially insolvent. Within a few short months or years,, the dollar will implode releasing high unemployment, hyperinflation & economic collapse. Israel's $3 Billion aid package makes up 1% of its GDP. Israel should now be shrinking this military help & become self-sufficient asap.

And now the IDF badly needs more financial aid from the US , and yet the top brass of the IDF , the defence minister , only last month harshly criticized and mocked America ... How impudent some Israeli government officials could be ...

Im sure they can direct your generosity to the proper channels. Bless you! KEEP BUILDING !!!!

Maybe then, after obama's ruined America, Israel can make the US a loan? And, learn NEVER to vote for a Kenyan born muslim ever again. Pray for an early impeachment. KEEP BUILDING !!!!!