Robin Lea Laurain
2 min readDec 23, 2020

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LET THEM EAT CAKE!… Our $600.00 worth of cake crumbs will hardly help citizens get through the winter.

This is a clip from an email I got today…Wow, the new COVID bill actually has money for Israel written into it. Not even kidding.

Attached is the full document. Here is a snippet that can be found on page 341.

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

2 SEC. 8072. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act

3 under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and

4 ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-

5 Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative

6 Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $73,000,000

7 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Gov-

8 ernment of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome

9 defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, sub-

10 ject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agree-

11 ment, as amended; $177,000,000 shall be for the Short

12 Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, in-

13 cluding cruise missile defense research and development

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Robin Lea Laurain

Retired travel nurse, politician, multi-generational grandmother, Green Party, activist, writer, anti-war, #BDS