Biden admin approves emergency $106 million arms sale to Israel

By Kevin Haggerty 

 

While negotiations with Congress have stalled, the Biden administration plowed forward with an emergency justification for the conditional sale of over $100 million in arms to Israel.

A deal over the roughly $106 billion package promoted by President Joe Biden, which primarily aimed to fund Ukraine with some money for Israel, remained stalled as Congressional Republicans endeavored to include U.S. border security in the supplemental. Saturday, the administration revealed it had managed a workaround that allowed for nearly 14,000 tank cartridges to be sold to Israel under the pretense of emergency.

In a release from the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), it was explained that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had justified the emergency to Congress on Friday, “thereby waiving the Congressional review requirements under Section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended.”

“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to U.S. national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability. This proposed sale is consistent with those objectives,” the DSCA release said.

“Israel will use enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense. Israel will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces,” it continued and claimed, “The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region…

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