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2024-05-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Biden Admin Issued Sanctions Waiver on Arms Sales to Arab States Day Before Withholding Weapons From Israel
[LI] Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

On Tuesday—just a day before President Joe Biden threatened to withhold key weapons deliveries from Israel if the country moves forward with an incursion in the Gaza Strip's Rafah neighborhood—the State Department informed Congress that it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel, according to a copy of the notification obtained by the Free Beacon. ...

"The Biden administration's policy toward Israel and around the world is to punish our allies and boost our enemies," Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon after reviewing the sanctions waiver. "They have sanctioned Israel and imposed an arms embargo. Meanwhile they've spent hundreds of millions pouring aid into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, dismantled sanctions on Iran, and now are suspending congressional restrictions to send weapons to Israel's enemies such as Qatar and Lebanon."
Posted by Frank G 2024-05-10 06:26|| || Front Page|| [11161 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon
Posted by Frank G 2024-05-10 06:33||   2024-05-10 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 GOP governor fumes over Biden's threat to cut off Israel aid: 'He's negotiating for the terrorists'
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-10 08:46||   2024-05-10 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Pentagon undecided on how to proceed with paused bomb shipment to Israel over opposition to Rafah operation
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-10 08:48||   2024-05-10 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Netanyahu says Israel 'will stand alone' if necessary after Biden threatens to withhold weapons
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-10 08:49||   2024-05-10 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 From nations down to individuals, the idea you need to negotiate with some fraudulently installed regime for the right to exist is stupid and vile.

But David Brooks sees no problem.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-10 09:40||   2024-05-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 I really want to see how many Jewish people stay on the leftist plantation here in November.

Nobody will learn anything but that doesn't mean it won't be instructive.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-10 09:43||   2024-05-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Wait a minute. Didn't the Democrat House of Representatives, under Nancy Pelosi's leadership, impeach Donald Trump for withholding weapons from Ukraine? I remember Pelosi saying Trump abused his power by delaying the delivery of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine while asking for Zelensky's help in the investigation of Hunter Biden's dealings with Burisma. She was outraged that he had to audacity to withhold weapons that Congress had authorized. A whole big deal was made of Trump's phone call with Zelensky. All kinds of people got their panties in a wad. Now it seems that Joe Biden is doing the same thing and nobody notices. Am I missing something here?
Posted by Uleating Theger5049 2024-05-10 11:44||   2024-05-10 11:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Vindman and Ciaremella aren't having the howling fantods this time so there's no comparison.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-10 11:56||   2024-05-10 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 UN General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-10 12:20||   2024-05-10 12:20|| Front Page Top

#10 American Jewish population still going to vote for Biden?
Posted by JohnQC 2024-05-10 12:42||   2024-05-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Sirens sound in Be'er Sheva as Gaza rockets strike after 6 months of silence
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-10 15:19||   2024-05-10 15:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Went to a wedding in Be'er Sheva one time. Wasn't sure I was going to survive...the drinking.
Posted by JohnQC 2024-05-10 17:35||   2024-05-10 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 John, not all Jews are "Zionists". In my opinion, they just don't realize the existential threat they face.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-05-10 19:18||   2024-05-10 19:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Per current polling, Biden has already lost at least 80% of the vote of Orthodox Jews. I think Conservative Jews will probably break 50-50. Reform will still hold as 75%+ for Biden. However there are a lot of non affiliated Jews and no good way to survey them accurately.
Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-10 19:22||   2024-05-10 19:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Walter Russell Mead says that the key demographic for US support for Israel are the "Jacksonian Zionists."

Wouldn't this groups always have supported Trump over Biden, even before 10/7?

Also, does Trump have a realistic chance to overcome the margin of fortification?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-05-10 20:09||   2024-05-10 20:09|| Front Page Top

#16  Per current polling, Biden has already lost at least 80% of the vote of Orthodox Jews.

What was the ratio previous to 10/7?
Posted by trailing wife 2024-05-10 21:55||   2024-05-10 21:55|| Front Page Top

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