US refused to allocate Israel one billion dollars to restore and replenish the Iron Dome Anti-Relief System. Reports about it Reuters.
For the exclusion of item on the provision of Israel of financial assistance, some members of the Democratic Party in the Chamber of Representatives were made. Among the congressmen there was a dispute that forced the Committee on procedural issues to break the work for a while. The leaders of the parties promise to again raise the issue of Military Assistance Tel Aviv in the near future.
A representative of the Democratic Party Jamal Bowman stated that members of the Chamber did not have enough time to consider this issue. “The manual simply threw us something on the table, gave us about five minutes to decide what we would do,” the congressman emphasized.
According to Reuters, in Israel, it is considered a failure of a temporary “technical delay”. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stated that the leaders of American democrats assured him about the transfer of funds for the Iron Dome in the near future.
In June, the Government of Israel asked the United States billion dollars to close military needs after the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities send money from the United States to the modernization of the military complex, as well as to restore and improve the missile defense system, which was actively used in collisions with Palestine.
On September 21, US President Joe Biden delivered a proposal for the possible decision of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. In his opinion, the principle of “two states for two peoples” is best solved by the conflict, which lasts for more than 70 years.