inthesetimes.com/article/senate-israel-aid-supplemental-transparency-waiversThe White House is Working Overtime to Obscure Weapons Sales to Israel. The Senate Is Aiding and Abetting Them.
Picking up White House language, the Senate supplemental bill would conceal weapons sales from Congress and the American people.
Janet Abou-Elias, Lillian Mauldin and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency
December 6, 2023
On October 20, the White House sent a $106 billion supplemental national security funding request to Congress. It included a provision that would waive congressional notifications for $3.5 billion of future arms sales to Israel, effectively allowing the executive branch to blanket-approve these sales unilaterally. The unprecedented revocation of Congressional oversight authority raised grave concern in the arms control policy community and among high-ranking Democrats.
The request also included a provision to waive the annual cap on transfers to the U.S. stockpile within Israel.
Now, Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has introduced a $111 billion bill to provide additional funding for Israel’s siege on Gaza, as well as military aid for Ukraine and other nations, that includes both Israel-specific waivers.
“I am disappointed to see the Democratic Majority carry forward the President’s language that would reduce Congressional oversight of military assistance to Israel while creating new mechanisms for the Biden Administration to expedite such arms transfers,” says Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned October 17 in protest of reckless and unchecked U.S. military support to Israel. Paul continued, “[Senate Majority] Leader [Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] has previously said that ‘war powers belong squarely in the hands of Congress,’ and has pushed for greater Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch. But when it comes to what Israel does with U.S. weapons, he is apparently glad to turn a blind eye.”
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) previously told the Washington Post that they opposed waiving Congressional notification processes for arms transfers to Israel.
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inthesetimes.com/article/united-states-israel-precision-guided-munitions-stockpileHow Israel Got an Endless Supply of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs
Nearly three years ago, Congress gave Israel a pass to stockpile precision-guided bombs “without regard to annual limits.” An inside source confirms that even more have been transferred since October 7.
Ari Tolany, Lillian Mauldin, Janet Abou-Elias and Women for Weapons
Trade Transparency December 4, 2023
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1655054 A Critical Look at The New York Times' Weaponization of Rape in
Service of Israeli Propaganda
January 14 2024
Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah
blog Series: Genocide In Gaza
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