This is, the regime insists, “in the national security interest.”
In reality, betraying allies and giving aid and comfort to the enemy (Qatar is a chief supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Lebanon is essentially controlled by Hizballah) is never in the national security interest.
“Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 9, 2024:
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, which has waived these sanctions in the past, said in the notification that it intends to extend the waiver through April 30, 2025, allowing weapons to be sent to a host of nations that work closely with the Hamas terror group and other Iran-backed terror proxies.
While the administration determined that these countries engage in Israel boycotts, a condition that triggers American anti-boycott laws, bypassing these restrictions remains “in the U.S. national interest” to maintain regional stability, according to the waiver. But this justification is drawing scrutiny on Capitol Hill as the Biden administration threatens key arms shipments to Israel in a bid to force it into abandoning its campaign to eradicate Hamas.
“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.”
A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the department “remains committed to Israel’s security and defense.” While current law “prohibits leases and sales of defense articles to certain countries that maintain a boycott of Israel,” the president reserves the right to waive these restrictions if it is “in the national security interest,” the spokesman said….
Tatanka says
The dems are Evil psychopaths. Satan is ruling them
bagsgroove says
Biden is Satan’s Grandpa !
somehistory says
The only “stability” those provide….cutting off of weapons to Israel while arming the terrorists…is to stabilize terror and defeat those fighting against it.
If anyone doubted the evils of the bo’biden body, old and cranky, ugly inside and out, those evils are plain to see from these …just these two…decisions.
biden is terror-friendly, supporting terror…and he wants to have four more years of doing that.
Withhold help from a nation under fire, while aiding nations attacking the innocent and vulnerable. And since the help to Israel was already agreed upon, this is a backstabbing of the worst kind.
anyone can see the evil intent.
Ezekiel 38-39
bagsgroove says
“Out,out,damned spot”“ Shakespeare,lady Macbeth’s message to Biden “You have been sat to long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!.” Oliver Cromwell’s message to the english parliament,is an apt message to Forbidden Biden !
Walter Sieruk says
That dastardly despicable villainous rat , Joe Biden, and others in his despicable regime would stop the shipment of weapons to Israel, No matter how important and necessary arms are needed in Israel’s self-defense against those vicious and murderous attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah.
This is because that fiendish villain Biden, has ,indeed, totally abandoned Israel , likewise he betrayed her. Biden even has the diabolical gall to attempt to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Force all the while he’s providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
We may be sure that either in a direct way or an indirect way will use that money to advance its nuclear weapons program and further its stooge terror/murder jihad organizations which are Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad.
Some Westerners might find in a bit interesting that Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the other ayatollahs and mullahs who have so much terrible power in Iran , don’t ever engage in any shootings and bombings , they just have their useful idiots who are the Muslim terrorists those three horrendous jihad entities to the dirty work of murdering of people for them as their tools.
Some of that vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain will , without doubt , also be given in support to further found Hamas and also Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Truly, Joe Biden is a treacherous scoundrel.
bagsgroove says
And his mental condition of Biden Idiocy is getting worse every day. Kick him out of the government before he ruins the country
bagsgroove says
“Scoundrel” is too kind of a description of Forbidden Biden.
Walter Sieruk says
That disingenuous double-speaking hypocritical lair ,Joe Biden had just the other week said that “America’s support for Israel is iron clad.” Then Biden attempts in impose sanctions against the Israel Defense Force, all the while he strives to have sanctions lifted from that hostile Islamic regime of Iran which even viciously launch deadly missiles and drones into Israel starting on April 14. 2024.
Before those most recent attacks by Iran, that brutal cruel and murderous jihad entity , Hamas, which is funded and supplied with weapons by Iran had invaded the State of Israel on October 7.2023.
At this current time, that villain, Biden, wants sanctions against the much needed IDF. Therefore, it’s no wonder that Benjamin Franklin Netanyahu declared those US sanctions against the IDF an “absurdity” and a “moral low.”
Furthermore, the IDF is very much needed and necessary. Prime Minister Benjamin was not only right, for he also spoke the sensible thing to do when he declared, “No force in the world will stop us from elimination Hamas.”
For Hamas is a dangerous and deadly plague for all Jewish people and the State of Israel and as some people don’t seem to realize that vicious and vile jihad entity also dangerous to America and all the other Western countries.
Furthermore, Hamas hates the Jewish people with a spiteful passion, which also carries over to the same detestable and deadly malice for Christians. As is the saying in the Middle East among jihad-minded Muslims, it’s “First comes Saturday then comes Sunday” Meaning “First kill all the Jews and then kill all the Christians.”
To think about it , the many Muslims propagandists who live in the United States keep telling the Americans as well as other Westerner that “Islam respects Jews and Christians as “People of the Book. “ Those words ,of course, mean the Bible.
In reality ,many Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere engage in severs persecution Christians and Jews Therefore , those words spoken by the Muslim apologists for Islam are disingenuous and empty words.
The persecution of who aren’t officially “People of the book” would be horrendously cruel and murderous. Towards Hindus and Buddhists as well as people of other religions who Muslim view a “pagan.”
Prime Minister Benjamin was not only right, for he also spoke the sensible thing to do when he declared, “No force in the world will stop us from elimination Hamas.”
For Hamas is a dangerous and deadly plague for all Jewish people and the State of Israel and as some people don’t seem to realize that vicious and vile jihad entity also dangerous to America and all the other Western countries.
Furthermore, Hamas hates the Jewish people with a spiteful passion, which also carries over to the same detestable and deadly malice for Christians. As is the saying in the Middle East among jihad-minded Muslims, it’s “First comes Saturday then comes Sunday” Meaning “First kill all the Jews and then kill all the Christians.”
To think about it , the many Muslims propagandists who live in the United States keep telling the Americans as well as other Westerner that “Islam respects Jews and Christians as “People of the Book. “ Those words ,of course, mean the Bible.
In reality ,many Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere engage in severs persecution Christians and Jews Therefore , those words spoken by the Muslim apologists for Islam are disingenuous and empty words.
The persecution of who aren’t officially “People of the book” would be horrendously cruel and murderous towards Hindus and Buddhists as well as people of other religions who Muslim view a “pagan.”
Prime Minister Benjamin had revealed knowledge and wisdom by his statement about the need to about the very important and necessary need to engage in the “Elimination of Hamas.”
Norman Gardner Gardner says
Robert Gates said Biden never made a correct decision when it came to foreign affairs. Biden has been a dunce his whole political career . By attempting to placate Muslim voters he is alienating many mainstream voters. He is doomed to lose the election because he is weak, not bright, and has protected Hamas from being destroyed while at the same time saying they need to be destroyed.