Four F-16 fighter jets left the U.S. this morning, bound for Egypt as part of a foreign aid package critics say should have been scrapped when the nation elected a president who has called President Obama a liar and urged that hatred of Jews be instilled in children.
A source who works on the Naval Air Force Base in Dallas confirmed the departure of the state-of-the-art fighter planes to FoxNews.com. Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year under a foreign aid deal signed in 2010 with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally..
Critics, including several in Congress, say it doesn't make sense to follow through with the package, given that new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, elected last summer, has given decidedly mixed signals about relations with the U.S. While he has toned down his rhetoric since his election, in 2010 - the same year the aid package was struck - Morsi attacked Obama for supporting Israel.
“One American president after another — and most recently, that Obama — talks about American guarantees for the safety of the Zionists in Palestine," Morsi, then a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, said on Egyptian television in reaction to Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo. "[Obama] was very clear when he uttered his empty words on the land of Egypt. He uttered many lies, of which he couldn’t have fulfilled a single word, even if he were sincere — which he is not.”
In the comments translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute
, Morsi went on to urge that children be taught to hate Jews.
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We give Egypt 3 billion dollars a year to buy arms from Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and General Dynamics and we give Israel 3 billion dollars a year to buy arms from Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and General Dynamics. Of course it's "for the children."
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DeleteYou reckon they'll turn up at Megiddo?
ReplyDeleteFor what reason?
DeleteMegiddo is a little place located in a valley called Armageddon...
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DeleteYes, I have read about the excavations, but was wondering why they would go there and I assume bomb?
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Armageddon
I got it.:)
Exactly what is the purpose in giving any other country anything? Regardless to the answers it in no way benefits the American public.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if the Muslims hates Jews or vice versa, that is their business. I personally don't like either one. Matter of fact by one definition I hate both myself. The Greek and basic definition of hate is simply the absence of love.
In short I'll say the reason for all the gifts of money is, "The bankers made them do it!" That's the bottom line naming the only people who profits from this crap! Everyone else pays the price.
Michael-- Deo Vindicabamur
Exactly what is the purpose in giving any other country anything?
DeleteZilch, except in this instance, Hussein wants to prop up his fellow Muslims.
Still only a pretext that is used against the American public. It doesn't address the real problem.
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