Biden administration bypasses Congress to sell tank shells to Israel
“The Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review …
“The state department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth $106.5m for immediate delivery to Israel …
“The shells are part of a bigger sale … that the Biden administration is asking the US Congress to approve.
“The larger package … includes 45,000 shells for Israel’s Merkava tanks, regularly deployed in its offensive in Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians …
“… US officials say there are no plans to put conditions on military aid to Israel or to consider withholding some of it …
“The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that the tank shells must immediately be provided to Israel in the national security interests of the US …”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-administration-emergency-authority-tank-shells-israel
“The Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review …
“The state department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth $106.5m for immediate delivery to Israel …
“The shells are part of a bigger sale … that the Biden administration is asking the US Congress to approve.
“The larger package … includes 45,000 shells for Israel’s Merkava tanks, regularly deployed in its offensive in Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians …
“… US officials say there are no plans to put conditions on military aid to Israel or to consider withholding some of it …
“The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that the tank shells must immediately be provided to Israel in the national security interests of the US …”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-administration-emergency-authority-tank-shells-israel
Jewish Secretary of State making US non-Jews pay for armaments for violent Jews in Israel. Why don't the US Jews pay for it themselves? It would remove their reputations for hypocritical sponging at a trice....
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