Israel’s military is reported to be requesting major increases to its budget worth billions of shekels to provide it with the capability to strike Iran’s nuclear program.
The request came during early discussions of the state budget, which the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett seeks to pass in the coming months, Kan reported.
Funding discussions took place in the context of the perception that indirect negotiations between the US and Iran regarding the latter’s nuclear ambitions may fail, the public broadcaster reported.
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{Matzav.com}
I just looked up an article from 2018:
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order [“for the sake of a drill,”] in 2011 for the military to prepare to attack Iran within 15 days, a former Mossad chief [Tamir Pardo] said in remarks released on Thursday.
The guy (among others) refused to carry out the order as he deemed it illegal. Yet now the military is demanding money to potentially actually carry out for real something that had already (allegedly) been deemed illegal for the Prime Minister to order as just a “drill”?