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August 16, 2016

The Problem with the President’s Offer of Military Aid to Israel

Constrained by preconditions.

Next year, the “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between Jerusalem and Washington, signed in 2007, will expire. Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama are currently negotiating a new memorandum that, like its predecessor, will be concerned primarily with U.S. financial support for the Israeli military, and should run for the next ten years. Although in dollar terms the new agreement proposed by Washington is more generous than the one it replaces, Shoshana Bryen argues that it comes with conditions that make it far less helpful:

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