According to tradition since 1948 every United States President gives a gift to the nation of Israel on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, President Bush giving this final birthday present from his term while all of the media is focused on the US economy and the Presidential election.
So it has just been announced under the radar on the heels of the X-Band defense system now in place in the Negev, the sale of 1,000 GBU bunker bombs, and the underwater top secret missile defense system in the Mediterranean Sea, that the Pentagon has given an undisclosed amount of F-35 Strike Fighter aircrafts to Israel with a price tag of 300 million dollars each.
According to top officials the gift is necessary because it is vital to US national security interests in the Middle East to assist Israel in developing "a strong and ready self-defense capability." Israel is the first foreign nation to receive the state of the art F-35 Strike Fighters, which will replace their older F-16 fighters and greatly enhance their air-to-air and air-to-ground defenses. The state of the art aircraft will give Israel an even more advanced radar system for their pilots to strike ground or air targets from long distances, the first fighter planes in the world with a communications system linked to satellites, and the capacity for carrying large quantities of attack munitions. Assurances were made by the two nations that these sensitive technologies would not be leaked to third parties. From Jerusalem.....
So it has just been announced under the radar on the heels of the X-Band defense system now in place in the Negev, the sale of 1,000 GBU bunker bombs, and the underwater top secret missile defense system in the Mediterranean Sea, that the Pentagon has given an undisclosed amount of F-35 Strike Fighter aircrafts to Israel with a price tag of 300 million dollars each.
According to top officials the gift is necessary because it is vital to US national security interests in the Middle East to assist Israel in developing "a strong and ready self-defense capability." Israel is the first foreign nation to receive the state of the art F-35 Strike Fighters, which will replace their older F-16 fighters and greatly enhance their air-to-air and air-to-ground defenses. The state of the art aircraft will give Israel an even more advanced radar system for their pilots to strike ground or air targets from long distances, the first fighter planes in the world with a communications system linked to satellites, and the capacity for carrying large quantities of attack munitions. Assurances were made by the two nations that these sensitive technologies would not be leaked to third parties. From Jerusalem.....
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