Kamala claimed she wasn’t for an arms embargo. She lied.
In August, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to anti-Israel activists including Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s sister and told them she was open to an arms embargo on Israel.
The Kamala campaign denied the allegation. The Times adjusted its claim.
They were lying. Here’s the arms embargo.
The Biden-Harris administration confirmed on Tuesday that it threatened to cut off aid to Israel’s military, including arms shipments, if the Jewish state does not boost the delivery of humanitarian aid into the battle-torn Gaza Strip.
That’s an understatement.
The Biden-Harris admin letter falsely accuses Israel of a cutoff of humanitarian aid to Hamas areas and makes a series of insane and impossible demands including supporting UNRWA, which functions on the ground as Hamas, allowing in items that can be used for terror, maintaining aid supplies in evacuated areas, and allowing enemy forces to enter Gaza.
Among the arms embargo demands are “removing restrictions on the use of container and closed trucks”.
“Waiving customs requirements” from enemy territory… “until such a time as the UN is able to implement its own process.”
“Allowing the JAF (Jordanian Armed Forces) to enter the Gaza strip.”
Seth Mandel at Commentary notes just one of the arms embargo ultimatums which complaints about Israel “instituting new vetting and onerous liability and customs requirements for humanitarian staff and shipments”.
What are those new vetting and liability requirements that the U.S. government, through Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, is objecting to? From the Times of Israel’s description: “Under the rule, individuals from relief organizations sending aid must complete a form providing passport details, and accept liability for any false information on a shipment, sources said. Relief agencies fear signing the form could expose staff to legal problems if aid fell into the hands of Hamas or other enemies of Israel.”
These customs rules are as basic as they get. The UN specifically is holding back sending its trucks under these rules, presumably because it’s violating those rules. Further, the only people who would object to deliverers providing personal identification are those who intend for Hamas thugs to join the convoy along the way.
Imagine complaining about having to show ID at a border crossing into a warzone. Now imagine the U.S. threatening to withhold weapons from an ally because that ally is requiring warzone delivery workers to provide ID. That is currently the reality.
This is a diplomatic gun to Israel’s head: Let in aid trucks without knowing exactly who and what is on them—aid trucks organized by an agency that notoriously employs Hamas terrorists—or fend off Iran’s multi-front attack with one hand tied behind your back.
The goal here I would argue is less about achieving any of the specific demands in the letter than to…
- Spread further FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) within the Israeli government and military who will be encountering still more onerous rules. The ultimate goal is to fracture Israel’s governing coalition between those who want to defeat the terrorists and those who want to make a deal leading to the collapse of the government.
- Reverse Israel’s momentum against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
- Appeal to Dearborn, Michigan, and the far left. The 30-day timetable here is aimed at the election. While the Biden-Harris regime denies making the letter public, the fact that Barak Ravid is spreading it on social media means that it comes from the administration.
That last part is significant because these same folks decided to impeach former President Trump over the accusation that he was doing what they’re doing now, which is denying aid to an ally in wartime in the service of their own partisan election agendas.
And it’s undeniable that is part, though not, all what is going on here.
The Biden-Harris administration has made it clear that it wants Israel to end the war. At any cost. The facade of a deal has fallen apart but the pretext of a ceasefire was just that. People tend to overstate the impact of the Dearborn ‘Death to America’ vote. They’re a factor, but the Marxist home crowd is more of one. And even without an election, they would still want to see Israel lose.
This is aimed at the election, but what will come after the election, no matter who wins, will be worse.
Walter Sieruk says
Those two fiendish villains and treacherous rats, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have ,indeed, totally betrayed Israel. They threaten and want to impose an arms embargo against Israel all the while they are 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.”
Truly, Biden and Harris are treacherous scoundrels.
somehistory says
The un wants to bring in more fighters to war against Israel. The un has already said its troops in Lebanon can shoot back at the IDF.
the un is full of mozlums and their supporters; and mozlums want to destroy Israel.
The hyena….speaking to Bret Baier…made a statement as if she has already been selected to be president about what she has previously done…wants to see the same thing….Israel destroyed.
Israel needs to read and remember Ezekiel.
Walter Sieruk says
That Communist Kamala Harris with her “Red/Green alliance” is all for and very supportive of having arms embargo against the State of Israel , which would lessen the capacity of military of Israel to protect the lives and safety the people who are her citizens from those malicious and murderous jihad terror entity as Hamas from Gaza and Hezbollah from Lebanon.
It should be remembered that VP Harris didn’t have any objections ,all , when Joe Biden strived as hard as he could to have sanctions lifted from that hostile Islamic regime of Iran , so that it could obtain much money , which it ,no doubt, used to funds to support Hamas and Hezbollah and supply those jihad organizations death infecting . weapons .
If , “by hook or by crook” Kamala Harris does become the next United States President, it would a disaster for the US , Israel and all the civilized nations of the world.
Stive says
My nickname for Kamala is; A woman riding a beast.
somehistory says
Such as ‘the harlot on a scarlet-colored wild beast’?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You mean “humped by a Kamala 🐪”? 😈
Mike says
Bibi should simply tell them to piss the freaking heck off, and to categorically state that Israel will press on to victory!
God bless Israel and the brave IDF soldiers! Am Yisrael Chai!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Short term: just finish everything they need to, including taking out Khamenei if needed, before November 5th
somehistory says
“Biden-Harris Threat against Israel Is a Moral Disgrace” The National Review
“Israel’s ongoing war against Iran and its terrorist proxies is a political problem for Democrats. While most Americans sympathize with Israel, a segment of the Democratic Party is harshly critical of the U.S. ally and, in some cases, openly pro-Hamas. This contingent is loud and heavily concentrated in the swing state of Michigan. Ever since the October 7 attacks, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have sought to thread this needle by talking about their commitment to Israel’s defense while routinely haranguing Israel for its conduct of the war and pressuring the nation to operate with more restraint.
In other words, Harris can spend the closing weeks of the presidential election arguing to the pro-Hamas caucus that the administration has put Israel on notice while still claiming to supporters of Israel that no decision has been made to suspend aid.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-harris-threat-against-israel-is-a-moral-disgrace/ar-AA1sqKaP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=13dedd39637843cf9c72b82f380f70cc&ei=75
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As Caroline Glick noted a couple of days ago, Israel has only the next 18 days to act. First of all, they have no idea of who will win, and if it’s Kamala, they’d be SOL. Even if Trump wins, Biden will still be in office until January 20th, and b/w November 6th and then, the intifada bureaucrats who staff the NSA, State & Pentagon will have a field day wrecking havoc on Israeli interests, such as this arms embargo, voting against Israel in the UN, and so on
Since the Israeli plan to attack military, rather than oil or nuclear installations, has been leaked to the public by the US State Department, Israel should change plans, this time w/o telling DC, and just take out the oil export facilities on Kharg island, which handles 90% of Iran’s oil. Let’s see whether the likes of Putin or Xi love Iran as a charity case in the same way they love Iran as a customer
OLD GUY says
Democrat political posturing, look what Kamala has done she stoped the war in the Middle East. vote for her. Yes she did by caving to the enemy
terry says
Those who would support terrorist criminal organizations, embedded throughout the West, celebrating the atrocities of not just 10/7, but all criminals that theft, rape, and murder, are parties to Crime Syndicates that rule our world! The Crime Syndicate Islam, and the Marxist Crime Syndicate, bow and serve Rome on the Potomac: the Globalist Crime Syndicate of the Elite West! “ Ain’t no Sunshine” there, just Shinola!