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US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, James Miller and top Israeli Defense Ministry officials including Director General Udi Shani and Head of the Diplomatic-Security Bureau, Amos Gilad, attended the meeting.
Israel, which is the top recipient of US military aid, wants to ensure that the US regularly budgets for the missile systems that the Israeli regime plans to purchase during the next years.
Press TV has interviewed Mark Glenn, Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, Idaho about the implications of the US gifting their Iron Dome Missile system to Israel while the US economy is in a depressive state and in the geo-political context of it as a heightened threat to the region and beyond. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: The US is undergoing its own financial crisis and allocating millions of dollars for the Israeli Iron dome project as well as other missile defense systems, is that something the US can even afford right now?
Glenn: Well, of course not, but that’s immaterial. When it comes to Israel all that matters is Israel and I think that we can all just dispense with the illusion that the United States is an independent sovereign country that is able to make decisions that are in her own best interest. Clearly the relationship that we have with Israel is proof to the contrary of that.
And just this one item alone is dealing with our economy in the fact that we cannot afford to dispense with another billion dollars for a country that is posting continuous quarters of economic growth and I’m talking about Israel here… that alone is proof of the notion that the US isn’t looking out for her own best interests, but rather that the US is just a client state of Israel and it’s basically here to do Israel’s bidding for her.
Press TV: 275 million dollars for the Iron Dome project. How much of this has to do with appeasing the Zionist lobby in America because it is an election and Obama needs to please the right people now, doesn’t he?
Glenn: Well, of course that plays into it, but we also have to look at the other aspect of this, which is that you have many very powerful members of the House and the Senate as well as numbers of US armed services who are stockholders in these various companies who are going to be profiting off of all the research and development, even the giving of this Iron Dome system to Israel.
So, there are vested interests here besides appeasing the Zionist lobby, but as the Iraq war, as the Afghanistan war, as the destruction of Libya and as we are seeing today with the destruction of Syria… when Israel makes demands, the US follows suit accordingly and so we have to view this latest development regarding yet even more expenditures leaving the US in favor of Israel as being one more manifestation of that situation.
Press TV: Though many officials both from the US and Israeli sides argue that the missile systems are of a defensive nature. Experts argue otherwise saying that they do have offensive capabilities specifically in light of keeping a technological edge for Israel within the region.
But isn’t pouring in millions or billions of dollars, as you’ve just mentioned, into Israel’s missile systems creating a more dangerous atmosphere for an already volatile region?
Glenn: Well, not just for the region, but for the entire world. What we have here is the proverbial marriage made in hell. You have the US with all of its military and economic largesse and then you have Israel, which is the only country in the history of the world that has threatened to kill every human being on the planet if it looks like her precious experiment in Jewish self-rule in the Middle East is going to fail.
So, it’s not just the region that is in danger because of this very dangerous marriage that exists between the US and Israel, it’s the entire world. At this point you have the US engaging in very dangerous operations in Syria knowing that Syria is very close to a nuclear armed country, Russia.
And so this has implications that go far beyond simply the Middle East; it could literally attract every human being on the planet and to be honest it will be a miracle if doesn’t.
