Posted on 08/15/2014 6:56:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to YNet News, the Obama administration has halted shipment of Hellfire anti-armor missiles to Israel.
The administration blames the decision on Israel:
The Journal reports Israel requested money for more Iron Dome interceptors from the US Defense Department mere days after the ground incursion into Gaza began. While Israeli officials told the Americans Israel had enough interceptors for the current Gaza operation, they said it wanted to replenish its stocks.
According to the Journal, the Obama administration, with Israel’s consent, decided not to seek emergency funding, and instead hold the Congress vote on the $225 million military aid proposal in the fall.
While the White House had no qualms about supplying Israel with the defensive, non-lethal Iron Dome interceptors, the Journal reports Israel took another route to secure $3 million worth of lethal munitions, including 120-mm mortar shells and 40-mm illuminating rounds.
The request, made by Israel’s Defense Ministry to the US military, was approved without needing or seeking the approval of President Barack Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry, officials told the Journal. At the same time, the standard review process was properly followed.
After the shipment of the 120-mm and 40-mm rounds caught the White House by surprise, the Pentagon was instructed to put another arms shipment to Israel – a large number of Hellfire missiles – on halt and the administration instructed all of its defense agencies to consult with the White House and State Department before approving any additional arms requests from Israel, the Journal reported.
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The 'administration' shows its True Colors..................
Perhaps this is how Barack planned to bring the world together.
...together to destroy Israel?
He does not stand with Israel, that is clear. He wants them to fail and also his good buddies the muslims would be angry if the sale went through. Can’t have that!
And, he now has a willing accomplice in Sec. Hagel.
FKing Islamic SOB, (and that’s giving him the benefit of the doubt).
THIS behavior to your allies?
These next two years can’t go by fast enough for me. It’s going to be so nice when this SOB is out of my White House and living in his own mansion.
Can’t we offer him a ‘golden parachute’ and get him the he&^ OUT?
Enemy islamist so-called Presidents do this sort of thing.
Where the hell is our supposedly conservative House. Oh, I forgot. They’re on vacation.
Of course, it's Israel's fault. Bibi won't kiss Barry's bony black ass. This is the same way treats Congress and others with whom he 'negotiates'.
I’m all for it. The sooner the better.
Seems to me Israel should have no problem building its own equivalents. The only problem is what to do with the US aid currently being allocated to Hellfires.
So why does this CIC (Chicken in Charge) always side with the muzzies. BECAUSE HE IS ONE!
RE: The only problem is what to do with the US aid currently being allocated to Hellfires.
With Obama, you can do nothing. Use it for ourselves should the need be I guess.
Correct: Israel has the capability to build it’s own Hellfire-type missiles. In quantity. It’s just easier to buy them from the US.
Selling them to Israel is in the US’s economic interest. Because once the Israeli’s start building them, they’ll also start selling them at prices designed to undercut whatever the US and Raytheon (I think thats who makes them)
A couple decades ago the French threw on an arms embargo against Israel. Israel responded by taking one of the embargoed weapons, the Mirage III fighter/bomber, reverse engineering it, improving it and putting it into production as the Kfir.
Then selling it. There are a number of countries (Columbia, Peru, etc) that would probably be flying French-made Mirage IIIs or even Mirage 2000 if they weren’t perfectly happy with the Kfirs they bought at fire sale prices from Israel.
If a person is Moslem yet there is something restraining him from publically announcing it, doesn’t it show ultimate weakness?
If a horse can break free of its bonds, is it not strong? If not, is it not weak?
I don’t know what the Russians have that would be suitable, but I am sure that Putin is available should the Israelis want something; just like Egypt is now shopping for Russian weapons systems after Obama tried to give Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood. Another possibility is the Iraqis have a lot of hellfires and maybe they could be persuaded to divert some of them to Israel for the right price.
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