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IDF suspends Iron Dome deals
Yossi Yehoshua
Published: 12.02.12, 14:33
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1. It's just brinksmanship...
Shai ,   IL   (02.12.12)
...they'd never consider cutting pension benefits or other perks, and continue to drag their feet on selling army controlled properties in the center of the country for real estate development, so that they could provide the nation with a better defense. I think that their budgets and spending patterns should be made transparent to the degree that it doesn't impact security. The time has come for a reckoning.
2. bloody idiots
alexi   (02.12.12)
stenitz, security of israelis is paramount and trumps budget. Bibi,r everse this as israel needs another 8 batteries in the next 6 months. You want to repeat the carmel fire disaster because you didn't have fire fightinng planes and material. You dumb asses-think.
3. increase for defense...''establishment''?
moron ,   galut   (02.12.12)
does ynet suspect swiss bank accounts or the like?..funds are for defense NOT ''establishment''..of course ther is waste like every gov program including the 'free stuff' but defense the first and maybe only legitimate function of the state
4. get rid of him
dan guina ,   jerusalem,il   (02.12.12)
Barak is trying to blackmail the whole Israeli people.
5. Israel will lose Lebanon 3 or any other wars it must fight
zionist forever   (02.12.12)
Prior to the 2006 Lebanon the IDF budget wasn't based on how much extra they would get next year it was based on how much would the budget be cut by next year. For over a decade it was cuts year in year out and we did get to this situation where pilots limited their air time to save money, live ammunition exercises for the ground troops were few and far between, reserves were not called up for regular training sessions so they forgot skills. Reserves were buying their own body armor and the armor on older tanks was not upgraded so soldiers were killed. They are just a few of the cutbacks. After Lebanon Gabi Ashkenazi and then Barak learned and new the IDF needed alot of new hardware to replace its outdated equipment and they both started to look into what we need and went shopping. Well its been 5 years now since Lebanon and less than a year since Daphne Leef became finance minister, lessons have been forgotten and so the next war will be another humiliation and we will have another commission into where it all went wrong and look for a scapegoat. The IDF today would not be in any position to fight either the 6 day or Yom Kippur wars today because the arabs have been shopping for modern new weapons and in large quantities Israel has been making cutbacks. Also Iron Dome should have never come out the IDF budget, its an expensive white elephant and serves no wartime purposes. Either the individual municipalities who want it or central government should pay for it rater than forcing the IDF to cutback on the equipment that wins wars in favor of scrap iron dome.
6. In the name of "social justice", more will die
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (02.12.12)
Here in DC we have what's termed the "Washington Monument strategy" where those trying to defend their budgets suggest cuts will result in shutting down the Washington Monument and other popular sites. But it appears much more is genuinely at risk if money is directed to subsidized housing, free day care, etc. Orders to suppliers for the Merkava tank have already been suspended. Some training programs have been deferred. And now Iron Dome is at risk. Meanwhile, Israel is facing increasing threats on every front. And the "Occupy Tel Aviv" crowd could care less.
7. Defense budget cutbacks
Steve Goodman ,   Israel   (02.12.12)
Our Government has taken another page from how they do it in the U.S.A......we have "No" Money" for more Iron Dome Batteries, but plenty of money to vote themselves a "PAY RAISE"....just goes to show you what they think about us "PEONS".....they should take another page from the U.S.A., direct voting for those we want in our Government.....so we can oust them when they demonstrate their own personal greed over the good for those who elect them.Of course that will never happen.....they would never cut of their nose to spite their face....
8. # 1
Montgomery ,   Rehovot , Israel   (02.12.12)
Exactly so, in any event no army in the world has an unlimited budget. Generals always want more toys.
9. 1
zionist forever   (02.12.12)
The MKS have only last week given themselves a pay rise. There is no money to buy the military hardware we need but there is still plenty of money in the budget to make sure the MKS don't go short. More transparency and pensions for should be looked int but army have been selling property for about a decade now to finance cuts. The army & airforce are all relocating their major bases to the Negev.
10. GALUS
zivron   (02.12.12)
the GALUS OUGHT STEP IN SELL THEIR YENNE MANSIONS AND MECEDES BENZ AND PLOUGH THE GAP.eVEN THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASSES CAN GIVE MORE . TOO MANY TRIPS IN EXPENSIVE HOTELS . THE ISRAELI MOGULS OUGHT NATIONALIZE OR PAY FIFTY PERCENT TAX .
11. Israel's $206 million scam on the American Taxpayer
Steven Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (02.12.12)
The IDF knew full well the Iron Kippah was ineffectve, and would be canceled. So they got the Americans to pay Rafael, and Israeli company, one last time for the dying program. The Israelis are true friends and allies...Israel should return the money, and apologize for scamming us, again.
12. Iron Dome is the death knell to Obama - Al Queda plans.
Miron ,   USA   (02.12.12)
It's not going to have many friends in Israeli "real politics". Get Lieberman PM if you want to survive.
13. #6, Raymond - Spot on - Think 'big picture' - No - BIGGER.
Kenny Solomon ,   South Florida USA   (02.12.12)
Ever hear of the org ICR2P ? ...... The International Coalition for The Responsibility To Protect ...... Best take a look-see, because that's where much of what's happening here in the land of the big PX is stemming ...... That's Sunstein and the Obama admin's owners - the true Totalitarians / one-worlders ...... No religion allowed other than absolute devotion to 'the state' - no individual rights, etc...... and they're out in the open since Nov. '08 winning the White House ...... They get re-elected this year, freedom is history.
14. Netnayahu and Barak are endangering the lives
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (02.12.12)
OF ALL ISRAELIS but Netanyahu is only concerned with being the Putin of Israel! The report on the Carmel Fire in 44 people were killed blames Ministers Yishai and Steinitz but they are still in office. That shows the world what kind of a Prime Minister Netanyahu is! Its time the Likud got their own house in order!
15. THIS A JOKE CUZ WE HEAR HAMAS HEZBULL AND IRAN LAUGHING.
stude ham   (02.12.12)
who are the israeli idiots who publicized this decision? and who are the israeli idiots who actually made this decision? and who are the israeli idiots who believe that its citizens' security is a matter of government budgets?
16. Give them an incentive to purchase
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (02.12.12)
Move that miserable lot & their families to either the Lebanese border or Sderot, they'll change the minds soon enough Somehow or other they will find where to scrounge the funds from, when it comes to saving their own sorry backsides
17. Everyone on the planet is scaling back
Cameron ,   USA   (02.12.12)
Fiscal awareness. There is only X amount of coin.
18. So much for an Israeli know-how ;) ,...
split ,   US   (02.12.12)
"The United States is partially funding the Iron Dome project to the tune of $206 million" - ANNUALLY forgot to add, just like Lavi, another multi-billion worthless lemon and more US taxpayer billions in rat hole.
19. I agree wityh #6 100%.
Reuven   (02.12.12)
Some money could be saved by cutting bsack on food for Arab terrorist prisoners. Do you remember how thin our Gilad was?
20. Its not due to budget cuts...
Mike Van Harris ,   Belgium   (02.12.12)
Iron dome, better known as Iron Shlome has proved to be an expensive Jewish failure...
21. NO comment from Jewish RAMBO Sarah B?
(02.12.12)
22. #12 Miron, Not in the U.S
(02.12.12)
Is that right Miron? Iron Dome is the death "knell" to Obama? Go back to school idiot and learn how to spell like a normal non Jewish American...
23. #22 Instead of criticizing Miron #12
Ish Kabibble ,   Delancey   (02.12.12)
Learn to use a dictionary, his was the proper spelling, you have to learn to spell regardless of your nationality Knell | Define Knell at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/knell the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral. 2. a sound or sign announcing the death of a person or the end, extinction, failure, etc
24. Blame it all on the new finance minister Daphne Leef
zionist forever   (02.12.12)
25. @22
EUro   (02.13.12)
Opps it's turned out you're the i...t here.This time you got a swift and good response from TB23.Next time you will think twice before you insult people whose only "fault" is wrong spelling.In that case it wasn't even wrong @23 Well done!
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