Ethan Huff – Natural News Feb 13, 2024
If Israel’s war on Hamas and the Palestinian people in general continues to grow and expand to other fronts, the global credit rating agency S&P is warning that it might cut the Jewish state’s sovereign credit rating.
Last October, S&P maintained Israel’s current “AA-” rating, despite the war on Gaza. It did, however, lower Israel’s credit outlook from “stable” to “negative,” citing the possibility of Israel’s war on Gaza spilling over into other territories.
Should Israel’s war on Gaza become a regional affair, which already appears to be in the works, the Jewish state’s broader economy will be seriously impacted, as will the broader humanitarian crisis throughout the Middle East.
Maxim Rybnikov, director of S&P’s EMEA sovereign and public finance ratings, warns that Israel’s credit rating will likely be downgraded should there be a direct confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon or Iran.
“We could also lower the ratings if the impact of the conflict on Israel’s economic growth, fiscal position and balance of payments proves more significant than we currently project,” Rybnikov said.
(Related: Hospitals throughout Israel have reportedly been told to prepare for “thousands of casualties” in the coming days – is it going to become World War III?)
Israeli economic woes
In 2024, S&P expects Israel’s economy to grow by just 0.5 percent, this compared to a cumulative 2023-24 budget deficit of 10.5 percent – “but there are downside risks to these assumptions,” Rybnikov said.
“It is already clear that defense spending will be higher in the years to come and the longer-term impact of the war on FDI [foreign direct investment] flows, investor sentiment and other areas remains uncertain.”
Should Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians be resolved, S&P could restore Israel’s credit outlook to “stable” because “peace,” in that context, would mean fewer regional and domestic security risks to upset the economy.
One wonders if S&P is considering the possibility that Israel gets decimated by Lebanon and / or Iran, two Middle Eastern powerhouses that one commenter on a news story about all this described as having “much superior armed forces.”
“Should the U.S. be foolish enough to be drawn in on Israel’s side – and so far, it looks like that’s the last thing they are planning to do – then the U.S.’s last slide down the asymptote to the bottom could truly begin,” this person added.
“When the dust clears, S&P might be hard put to find an economy in Israel to downgrade.”
Another joked that these latest warnings from the S&P “means Hamas must be hiding in S&P’s offices,” the suggestion being that “Hamas” is merely an excuse by Israel to fulfill its brutal Zionist agenda.
“Israel’s credibility rating is zero,” wrote someone else. “This has become a defining moment in history that will bring with it consequences beyond just a credit rating.”
“I’m in America and I will never buy Israeli products ever again in my lifetime,” said another. “I won’t buy from our American corporations ever again, either.”
Already in the eyes of much of the world, Israel has been downgraded, expressed someone else about how the Jewish state really jumped the shark with this whole October 7 terror attack situation.
The recent ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) means that the rest of the world has been put on notice to pressure Israel to stop its genocide of the Palestinian people. Should Israel forge on, it can expect serious economic sanctions.
“Israel has virtually no territory with enough natural resources to make a difference once severe sanctions are imposed by the world on their state,” another commenter added to the conversation. “If they go ahead with genocide of Palestinian peoples, the sanctions will be permanent.”
Could it be that Israel has been “chosen” for financial collapse and destruction? Find out more at IsraelCollapse.com.
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Don`t worry America (the biggest debtor on the Earth) will send them Money.
Have you worked it out yet, it`s all a con.
The Houthis have shown the west they’re not the only ones who can sanction the economic activity of those who won’t obey our rules. Since the west offshored its manufacturing the major economic activity we have is selling what others make in distant parts of the world, and soon there’ll be no bits to sell.
And since western politicians are looking to steal the foreign reserves belonging to countries they don’t like, all those financial products sold by Wall Street and the City of London means a country’s leaders would have to be morons to park their money where the only investment risks are lose it now or later.
We’re done!
It’s not just the Joo state facing collapse. The Fail reports no growth for two years, in fact, it has fallen, and this is despite an extra 600k of immigrants.
Keep in mind, the UK creates debt, to make GDP look good, they use estimated illegal drug and prostitution revenues to also boost GDP, and yet, it’s still down.
The truth, there’s been no real growth in the UK economy since 2006, before the designed 2008 financial collapse. What you might see, is a ponzi economy.
Putin said Russia is the biggest economy in Europe, bigger than Germany. The fact is, Russia spent more on its military than Germany, France, and Britain combined, and this was before the SMO, so defense spending was at fairly normal levels, less than Amerika.
So this is the order of GDP.
China
US
India
Japan
Russia
Germany
France
Italy
Brazil
UK – maybe
I am expecting stones, but there’s nothing like a few triggers.
The UK is literally falling like a stone. Neither Nazi wing of the one party Nazi state has a clue as to what to do…
… how stupid of me, of course they have a plan. They’ve done it twice before, and things always come along on threes
We even have Lordy David Perker Pigs Head Cameron telling the Amerikan uni party what to do, as we take 50 rusty Challanger 2 tanks out of mothballs, to send on the largest NATO exercise since I don’t know when.
There’s nothing left, but WW3.
Ah…
So the Rothschild run S&P… is ready to downgrade the Rothschild fiefdom in the ‘Stolen State’… because of GDP and points of percentages or some other
Rothschild pseudo economic nonsense… and that by the way is very important..as you have been trained to accept…
Which makes about as much sense as one of Scott Critters unhinged blatherings on his unterwebz chunnel.. which of course make no sense at all and have the quality of fairy stories for little children…
Israel only has a credit rating because of the USA.
Thus Israel lives and dies on US money. If Congress was to cut money to Israel then Israel would immediately die, it is a parasitic worm and nothing more. Every Jew in Israel is being bankrolled by the stupids in the USA.
So now you know why Ziowhore Nikki Haley constantly says Israel is our best friend, and that we will support Israel no matter what, that Amerika needs Israel – it is because of this necessity of access to USA credit.
The shilling for Israel is getting shriller and shriller as the credit rating of both USA and Israel diminishes. Note how the credit monies going to Ukraine are nearly cut off, the next chunk is being heavily resisted. The two tapeworms of Jewkraine and Israel are in a mortal battle to get USA monies. Israel will win and Zelensky will get cut off first.
As soon as the money stops Zelensky’s political future ends. I am predicting that Zelensky and his wife (a joke since he is a flaming gay) will get the Ceaușescu treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_and_execution_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceaușescu was on Christmas Day 1989.
So maybe on Easter Sunday Zelensky’s neck will feel the rope.
Yeah right, ‘Israel is facing ‘debt collapse’. More Kool-Aid for the morons to guzzle. Jews own/control all the central banks of the world, so all Rothschild/Schiff/Warburg/Goldman etc has to do is print up or type a number on the computer screen & produce ‘new money’. Not to mention the billions they receive each year from the USA/EU to support the millions of parasitic Jew ghouls & mutants living in Israel.
This is great news, Jewrusesalem was a ghost town this past Christmas. Netanyahu is single handedily destroying the nation he is trying to save. Netanyahu is completely mad hatter psychopath – but loved by all of Congress who give him endless standing ovations and by these Evangelical loons who think Jesus is coming back if they make hell in the Middle East.
Fat Bastard John Hagee recently roared that the Rapture draws neareth. Well, since Jesus is not real, he ain’t coming back, and no one is going up in the air in some Rapture, but they may be blown sky high by Russian orbiting nuke bombardment system.
Read my latest comment here, the Bible Israel is fiction:
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
“How can the Bible Israel be real when Brahma became Abraham? Brahma is not real, so rewriting Hindu myth and making that story about Jews does make Israel real. The joke, and I mean really big joke, is on the believers who spent the last 200 years digging all around Israel, in the sweltering heat, to prove the Bible true. What a laugh – they proved it not true – yet are unable to process the data – because the western world spent the last two millenia building cathedrals and acting with piety all because of this myth – and it wasn’t true. It is the biggest fail of fails for sure! ”
read the whole comment and clear this nonsense from your brain that some angry sky god led a bunch of Jews around the desert. It never happened.
Abraham never existed.
Moses never existed
Solomon, Saul and King David are make believe
the Covenant is a sham
Jesus is an invention of Josephus and the Roman court
How can Jesus save you when he never existed? There is no such thing as sin on your soul, it is all make believe.
The entire western world has been duped into whoreshipping insane Jewish deiites. Yahweh does not exist and does not apply to white man or any non-Jew. Basing your life on the insane Jewish text is double top secret insane.
Jesus came to save Jews, no Gentile can be saved.
“This great tragedy and shame to human kind is caused by belief, belief in holy text, then acted on by the believers. But the sad joke is that none of it is even remotely true, it is stolen Hindu mythology rewritten with Jewish characters. The Holy Bible is the greatest literary hoax of all time, and when believed and acted on it causes hell on earth. Yet no one blames the book or the believers!
The belief in the Holy Bible creates hell on earth – it is as if the devil himself wrote it.
chesterton–
you mean ‘CIA Pedo man’?
Japan announces that it’s in recession, like the Nazi UK, and so is Nazi Amerika, although it’s very rare for the US to admit when it’s economy is tanking.
So what is the purpose of these coordinated recessions? They’ve known they were coming, and usually they do QE. Okay, they’ve been doing some QE with defense spending for UKraine, but this was never enough.
My guess, very high unemployment, or should I say, much higher unemployment than in 2008, or even Covid lockdowns. They didn’t want unemployment back then, but now, they want unemployment, and my guess, is that they want to increase pressure to force sheeple into conscription.
Lots of sheeple have lost their jobs. Big US corporations have been laying of 10s of thousands. In the US, it’s work, or go homeless, so for many, signing up to fight the Nazis could be one of very few options.
Of course, this might not look that bad right now, but things could escalate rapidly.
Lordy David Pecker Pigs Head Cameron, has likened Putin to Hitler. Take a look in the mirror Pecker boy. There’s no question, we are being dragged into WW3.
Recession, we’ve been in a depression since 2006 (2008), so 15 years of QE, and now it stops, and they come out with this drive to war, and let’s remember, the UK has been in recession for nearly two years, going on official data, but only now is it made public.
Once they dress the sheeple in u forms, they’ll put forces in Western UKraine, as a provocation aimed at Russia.
A good move right now, would be 200,000 Chinese troops to be stationed in either Russia, or Belarus, just so NATO knows exactly what’s coming their way.
Recessions aside, the West is economically collapsing. This started in the 1970s, and it stepped up a few gears in the noughties, with huge injections of money into the US economy, for silly wars in the Middle East, then 2008, bailouts, QE, QE, more QE, Covid QE, UKraine QE, sorry, no more QE for Western sheeple. Want bread and water, then fight for it.
Like I said yesterday or the day before. Putin needs to step aside, and let a monster do what he won’t.
@ Vinnie..
Yes Vinnie… apparently Ritters actually been nabbed three times ..prosecuted once … for noncery… so.. a serial offender as they all are..
..furthermore.. it seems likely he actually moonlights as Peter Griffin the animated imbecile in that ridiculous cartoon with the talking dog.. which no doubt is where he picks up all his hot scoops..
even if they are utter bullshit…
they will suck more money from all by
jews occupied nations . no problem for them .
and Ukrain they will occupy + reconstruction
pays europa !