Israel asked U.S. to increase weapons supply, Haaretz learnsAir force seeking more JDAM bombs, and larger emergency stores held by American army.
By Amos Harel
Israel recently approached the United States with new requests for security-related purchases, Haaretz has learned. The requests included Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM ) bombs for the Israel Air Force, as well as a significant expansion of the emergency stores held by the U.S. army in Israel.
The Israeli requests were brought up during recent visits to Washington by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and director-general of the Defense Ministry, Udi Shani, and in conversations with senior administration and Congress officials.
The priority list reflects the security threats the defense establishment believes Israel will face in the next few years, i.e. the eventuality of a prolonged war, which would necessitate using the IAF widely to attack many targets, along with ensuring enough spare parts and supplies.
Israel also requested JDAM bombs, seeking to significantly increase the number of such munitions already in its arsenal. The JDAM bombs have been used increasingly in recent operations, including in the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation Cast Lead in 2008.
Israel is also seeking to increase the amount of gear held by the American army in their emergency stores in Israel by 50% – from $800 million to $1.2 billion. The Obama administration placed the stores in Israel in December, as part of a number of steps to improve U.S. assistance to Israeli security. To date, $600 million worth of American emergency equipment has been placed in Israel.
The American stores hold rockets, bombs, aircraft ammunition and armored vehicles, along with other weapons. The gear fully matches equipment already used by the Israel Defense Forces and is cataloged upon arrival to ensure quick and easy access at a time of need, pending permission from the United States. The American move has a dual purpose: bringing military equipment closer to areas in which Americans might need to fight, and assisting the U.S. ally should the need arise.
Senior military sources told Haaretz that the IDF attaches great importance to the stores; in the event of an extensive conflict, considerable time will pass before an airlift of ammunition and spare parts – similar to the one operated during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war – gets under way.
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lydia said,
June 8, 2010 at 09:21
Its incredible. I want to cry, how come this is possible? Meanwhile the Palestinians are dying of hunger, of sadness, of sickness. How come the world accept this? And the world is silent, like a tomb. And I listen the tams tams of the war.
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Michael Santomauro said,
June 8, 2010 at 17:43
Even Bush would never have agreed to such stockpiling. I hope I am wrong, but I think Obama is warmongering on behalf of Israel. The mid-east conflict is a domestic issue in the United States. He needs Jewish support to win a second term, if the economy does not improve.
Carol Rae Bradford said,
June 8, 2010 at 19:51
WEll, guess the US and Israel are getting ready for WWIII
which they’ve really been the cause of
Holocaust Gaza said,
June 8, 2010 at 22:57
They will get it. Insane. All people with sanity should deny military services.
michael mazur said,
June 9, 2010 at 15:53
People shouldn’t be cavalier about ww3, as it’s not just a bigger ww2, and is a bigger threat qualitatively than in USSR times, as although there were near misses then, what is different now is that we have a diabolical entity called Israel which isn’t merely psychotic but is terminally malevolent as well; for it is written in some musty old book that if they can’t have the world then no one should have it.
All that will be needed to bring on nuclear winter would be about 100 Hiroshima/Nagasaki type bombs.
And what is nuclear winter ?
No food crops will grow anywhere for about 6mths due to dust and soot clouds blanketting everything, and nearly all people will die of starvation; except the politicians hiding in deep well provisioned underground bunkers, who allowed events to spin out of control.
One good thing about ww3, though, is that the number of nukes detonated will be in the thousands, and although this will ensure that no surface mammalian life will survive, at least when the politicians do finally come out to savour their final victory over humanity, they will have no place to go. Why ? Radiation!
Though caches of food in secret places may sustain them, the intense hundreds of years duration long life radiation particles will be everywhere and unavoidable, which will, thankfully, slowly, very very slowly, kill all the politicians before their food caches run out.
I mean, we wouldn’t want them to starve, would we ? Bastards.