Sentences with phrase «us military aid»

Anyone who thinks that the $ 3 billion in military aid to Israel does not come with a price is very, very naïve.

The memo points out that, in the past, State Department - led «bureaucrats cut off U.S. military aid to the police in Colombia as the GOP Congress fought to save Colombia from the FARC terrorist threat, while simultaneously tacking the drug threat.»

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

Analysts say Trump is likely to further curtail military aid to pressure Pakistan, but it's unclear how much leverage he has.

In Egypt, the Sisi government will have a chance to discuss the recent U.S. decision to suspend some of Egypt's military aid package because of Washington's concerns over civil liberties.

US military aid to Israel now exceeds $ 3.5 billion a year — not counting the value of special projects like the «Iron Dome» missile defense system the Senator is so enthralled by.

[355] During the initial years of the Obama administration, the U.S. increased military cooperation with Israel, including increased military aid, re-establishment of the U.S. - Israeli Joint Political Military Group and the Defense Policy Advisory Group, and an increase in visits among high - level military officials of both countries.

In 1973, Nixon asked Congress for military aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

And Israel is only loyal to Judaism, yet the US makes believe that they play by international rules and are worthy of our unrestricted military aid.

A case in point is that of military aid to El Salvador.

By giving it military aid, the U.S. is enabling the Salvadoran regime to sponsor more indiscriminate killing.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

Will he have the strength to say to Israel: take a series of initiatives to allow a viable, integrally united Palestinian state free of Israel's troops, or the U.S. will stop supplying military aid to Israel?

U.S. military aid to Colombia indirectly subsidizes the paramilitaries» acts of terrorism.

The White House released another $ 70 - million in military aid for Israel on Friday, saying it underlines the president's «unshakeable commitment» to that American ally.

In the Old Testament, the word EZER appears 21 times in 3 different contexts: the creation of women, when Israel applied for military aid, and in reference to God as Israel's helper for military purposes.

(Of course, we do provide enormous military aid.)

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldiers.

«U.S. military aid is obviously this really broad term that applies to all kinds of material aid that the U.S. might give to another country,» Molyneux says.

It is significant that India, which more than any Asian country has emphasized the primacy of economic over military aid, was among the first, through its ambassador, to commend American policy makers for the firm stand taken in 1950 in Korea.

It also recently drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who last week cut off Pakistan's military aid over frustrations with alleged Pakistani assistance given to terrorists in Afghanistan.

Condor also considered murdering U.S. Congressman Edward Koch (later mayor of New York) because of his opposition to U.S. military aid to the Uruguayan dictatorship.

Remember also that Israel doesn't really get any military aid from the US.

Military aid for civilian fitness has come from West Point, the Air Force and now the Marines.

In response, the US has provided huge military aid to Yemen, amounting to $ 150 million during 2010 alone.

Indeed, the U.S. government has supplied more than $ 40 million in military aid to the hunt for Joseph Kony since 2008.

Governor Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico said Friday that 13 people have died during Hurricane Maria and that FEMA has begun delivering military aid to get water, food, and generators to millions affected there.

I need to dig up Sahel specific examples, but see US military aid to Iran during Iran - Iraq war.

As my colleague Zeeshan Aleem writes, although the Obama administration gave Israel a bigger military aid package than any US president in history, and has vetoed past UN condemnations of settlements, Obama had a «tense and at times outright hostile relationship with the right - wing Netanyahu.»

They have varying reasons to want military aid (some more valid than others) in different circumstances, but they all exert political push on the government

Recent news has shown that certain western nations, especially within the EU, are attempting to step up their developmental and military aid in the Sahel region.

America must suspend the $ 1.3 billion (# 830 million) it gives Egypt in military aid in the wake of yesterday's violence, Labour has demanded.

About «Hezbollah»: 1 - «Lebanon's Military aid» do nt go to «Hezbollah».

NBC News is reporting that President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on Puerto Rico and threatened to pull FEMA and military aid.

As long U.S. military aid and investments continue to flow to Israel while it violates human rights and international law, the U.S. will not have the credibility with either side to play that constructive role.»

Congressmen from New York and Vermont are among those introducing bipartisan legislation to block both military aid to Syrian rebel groups and U.S. support of military operations in Syria.

In these circumstances, the Nigerian Army under its constitutional mandates for Military Aid to Civil Authority (MACA) and Military Aid to Civil Powers (MACP) has continued to act responsively in synergy with other security agencies to de-escalate the series of MASSOB / IPOB violent protests.

Electronic mail messages from this system had earlier revealed White House complicity in secret military aid to the Nicaraguan contras.

Brazilian officials, struggling to cope with the outbreak, have requested military aid and assistance from foreign doctors.

The military brass would rather have the soldiers going to their credit union or bank for short - term loans, military aid societies, support centers, or their families.

There was little Canadian involvement in the Suez, and Canada had actually refused British requests for military aid in the Middle East on two separate occasions prior to the crisis.

Not exact matches

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

Asked for comment on the announced movement of the missile defense batteries to Syria, Maj. Josh T. Jacques of the US Military's Central Command, which covers the Middle East, said Russia «should move humanitarian aid into Syria, not more weaponry.»

Keeping Gitmo open was a move that would foster support from the U.S. Military and Attorney General Eric Holder, who came the President's aid after he was blasted by various civil rights organizations.

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«Rather, Russia and the Syrian regime have chosen to pursue a military course, inconsistent with the Cessation of Hostilities, as demonstrated by their intensified attacks against civilian areas, targeting of critical infrastructure such as hospitals, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in need,» the statement said.

President Donald Trump will propose beefing up military spending and slashing domestic programs and foreign aid in his fiscal year 2018 budget to be released on Thursday.

Without the United States, however, Pakistan would lose its primary military and financial advisor and aid source.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

Additionally, the memo says, Colombia needs a political ambassador with a «wider world view who can use the Colombia assistance we rendered to push [its government] to aid us with training, experience - sharing and the posting of seasoned policy and military officers with other nations (e.g. Mexico, Afghanistan) facing similar narco - terrorism threats.»