Paradoxum

According to RTE News, this past July Condoleezza Rice unveiled a plan for the United States to give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next ten years. That is a 25% increase to the last deal. This deal was just signed, as RTE describes:

At a signing ceremony in Jerusalem, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns pledged the US would help Israel maintain a military advantage over its regional foes.

Mr Burns said the US considers the defence aid funding to be an investment in long-term peace.

I am glad to see Rice and the State Department taking useful and pragmatic steps towards peace in the Middle East. I think the deal is a good one: we’ve got the cash, not let’s give it to someone who will use it effectively towards our goal – peace.

If there is one thing Israel knows, it is turmoil within and around its borders, and is thus no stranger to using force when it has to. The difference between Israeli Middle East intervention and that of the United States, is that Israel’s existence depends upon their success. That is quite the motivator.

RTE continued:

[It] Is part of a new military pact with US allies in the region aimed at countering the ‘negative influences’ of al-Qaeda, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and enemies in Iran and Syria.