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Biden Moves to Lift Restrictions on ALL U.S. Weapons to Israel (www.kenklippenstein.com)
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Biden seeks to "allow for the transfer of all categories of defense articles," his request states

The White House has formally requested the removal of restrictions on all categories of weapons Israel is allowed to access from U.S. weapons stockpiles in the country, as I reported in detail for The Intercept today. So you know I’m not exaggerating, here’s a screenshot of the request:

The request would also remove nearly all other limits on Israel’s ability to access the U.S. weapons stockpiles — permanently —by doing the following:

read more: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-moves-to-lift-restrictions?publication_id=7677&post_id=139155763

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is about allowing Israel to access all weapons in the US stockpile in Israel, not ALL U.S. weapons in general as title implies.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Well yeah, congress fills their war coffers almost infinitely, until that stops it may as well be the same thing.