The United States has cancelled its joint missile defense drill with Israel as what will be seen as appeasement to Iran. After the world declined to impose sanctions on Iran last week and the Ahmadinejad Latin America tour was a complete success, it appears that we are now abandoning Israel. Due to money?
Israel has now announced that they postponed the joint exercise due to budget constraints. This may be a convenient way to give Israel more leeway in dealing with Iran.
David DeGerolamo
Israel, US cancel missile defense drill
Israel and the US canceled a missile defense drill, billed as the largest ever in the country’s history, planned for the spring, senior military officials said Sunday.
Initially scheduled for April and called “Austere Challenge,” the drill was supposed to see the deployment of thousands of US troops and various sophisticated US militaryequipment in Israel.
In recent weeks, Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s office has held talks with the Pentagon about the possibility of canceling the drill.
Senior military officers told The Jerusalem Post that the drill scheduled for April has been canceled, while defense officials said that it was possible that it would be held later in 2012.
The drill, expected to involve the deployment of thousands of US troops in Israel, was scheduled to last around a week and mark the first time that a top US militarycommander would participate in the simulations.
The parties were scheduled to simulate missile defensescenarios with the objective of creating a high level of interoperability so that, if needed, US missile defense systems would be able to work with Israeli systems during a conflict.
So the United States is leaving Israel twisting in the wind for budget reasons. This is the final straw in the complete collapse of the US Department of State and Obama’s Foreign Policy.
David DeGerolamo
Related Articles:
Israeli Attack on Iran Imminent?
Appeasement Arrives: Joint US-Israel Exercise Postponed For “Budget Reasons”, US Will Not Enforce No Fly Zone Over Syria
