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Biden Opens the Floodgates on Weapons for the Middle East
The president is reversing a ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia and advancing taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.
Biden Opens the Floodgates on Weapons for the Middle East
The president is reversing a ban on selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia and advancing taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.
It's been a good week for the weapons industry. President Joe Biden signed off on order after order allowing American weapons to flow to Middle Eastern regimes. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration will sell shipments of bombs worth $750 million to Saudi Arabia, breaking its ban on selling "offensive weapons" to the kingdom.
On the same day, the State Department announced over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel, including fighter jets, armored vehicles, and ammunition. And the Friday before, the administration removed several major barriers to arming the Israeli military. It released $3.5 billion in U.S. taxpayer money for the Israeli military, unfroze a $262 million munition shipment that had been held up since May, and decided not to restrict U.S. aid to an Israeli army unit accused of beating an American to death.
Biden came into office promising to end "forever wars" in the Middle East. He pulled U.S. forces out of Afghanistan and oversaw a truce in the Yemeni civil war. Over the past year, however, Biden has reopened the war in Yemen and overseen the deadliest explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence in history. His legacy may be ensuring that American weapons continue to fuel these conflicts after he leaves office.
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In addition to freeing up more money and munitions, the Biden administration moved to lift restrictions on how Israel can use this aid. A rule known as the Leahy Law forbids U.S. military aid from going to human rights abusers. In April 2024, the U.S. State Department announced a Leahy investigation into Israel's Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
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The Israeli government opposed any kind of "sanctions" on soldiers who are "fighting terrorist monsters." So did Republicans in Congress. Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) called the investigation "an effort by President Biden to appease Israel's enemies, including the antisemitic mobs terrorizing college campuses across America."
On Friday, the State Department said that Israel had "effectively remediated" the problems with Netzah Yehuda by giving the troops a "two-week educational seminar." The unit is now free to continue receiving weapons paid for by the American taxpayer.
Commentary:
What a coincidence?
The flood gates are now open that Joey is no longer running. They've miscalculated the backlash from the Muslim's and Harris will take a hit for it.
Just wait until the DNC Convention.
Once again, Biden is making a huge mistake with this. In some views Netanyahu is a war criminal and we should not be providing him weapons. Then there's Saudi Arabia. Didn't Joe just call King Salman a "Pariah"? America needs to stay true to their National Interest and true to their values. Supporting a Netanyahu's war in the ME is in our National Interest. Supporting war criminals is not true to American Values. Biden is wrong and this should be stopped.
On the same day, the State Department announced over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel, including fighter jets, armored vehicles, and ammunition.
Meanwhile people here have to deal with out-of-control inflation and struggling to make ends meet.
Wonder who the real master is?
Democrat Neo-Marxists believe in 'forever' wars. We buy allies with debt, promote socialism of our military and Trillion dollar defense budgets. If Harris wins, they will triple the DHS, IRS, ration our food and pass the BIG immigration bill.
