Posted on 10/30/2024 4:20:47 AM PDT by marktwain
Mark Smith has written a thoughtful examination of how disarmament by the State of Israel enabled the most horrific massacre of Jews since World War II. At the 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference in San Diego, Mark Smith was giving away copies of his latest book, Israel Disarmed: What the October 7 attack teaches Americans about the right to bear arms.
In the chapters which follow, Mark builds a detailed case of how important the right to bear arms is, how the Israelis became disarmed, and how October 7th changed Israeli philosophy about armed citizens. He explains the importance of the Second Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights, and how it is important today as a protector of liberty as well as for personal safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
The Music Festival which was attacked by Hamas was declared a "gun free zone". 13 Israeli police officers were killed there. It is not clear if they were armed or not. At the Bataclan massacre in France, there were eight police officers. All of them had chosen not to be armed.
me and wifey are both devoutly pro choice...on the 2A!
The police and military were only a few hours away.
review
Gun ownership was very common.
Then the international community started squeezing Israel and the Israeli liberal Left Wing governments started restricting weapons to prevent negative PR incidents caused by response to Israelis protecting themselves from Palestinian provocations and attacks
The Israeli governments tried to replace Israeli's carrying weapons for self defense with well trained military police equipped to deal with the Pallywood provocations for media exploitation and it worked for a while. Until there is a genuine peace in the region , Israelis need be armed at the personal protection level in the event of another general invasion.
“Back in the good old days Israeli school girls in the territories carried uzi sub machine girls to school - literally.”
I recall several years ago where a few news articles had pictures of hot young Israeli women carrying M16’s while shopping.
Men or women, it does not matter, as carrying anything that spits lead is one hell of a deterrent.
Another sign liberalism is a mental disease. They are surrounded by enemies that want to kill them. So what do they do? They disarm the citizenry. This generation might learn from it, the next will forget.
politico.com
Dems press Biden State Dept on ‘highly unusual’ Israel weapons moves
Nineteen lawmakers want to know why the Biden State Dept approved
two arms sales to Israel without congressional approval.
by CONNOR O’BRIEN, 01/29/2024, 10:44AM ET
Democratic lawmakers are seeking answers from the Biden administration over its decision to greenlight a pair of recent arms sales to Israel without congressional approval.
Nineteen Democrats called the State Department’s decision to unilaterally approve two emergency sales to Israel move “highly unusual” in a letter sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday and obtained by POLITICO. It highlights a growing divide among Democrats, as progressives especially criticize how President Joe Biden has responded to Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war.
The lawmakers pressed for details about why the emergency sales were needed, which sidestepped the typical process that requires congressional approval, and any steps taken to mitigate civilian harm. “It is essential for Congress to be able to conduct oversight of these arms transfers and determine whether they are consistent with humanitarian principles and U.S. law, and whether they advance or harm U.S. national security,” the lawmakers wrote, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.).
“We appreciate that your administration has repeatedly urged the Israeli government to take additional steps to reduce civilian casualties,” the group said to Blinken. “However, we are concerned that these transfers and the administration’s evasion of congressional oversight may be inconsistent with broader U.S. foreign policy goals.”
It’s not the first time the Biden administration has faced open intra-party pushback over how it has handled Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and mounting Palestinian civilian deaths. Biden immediately faced criticism from Democrats for leaving Congress out of the loop on the two arms sales to Israel. The chairs and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees typically must sign off on foreign weapons sales.
The State Department in December used an emergency designation to approve the sale of 14,000 tank shells to Israel valued at $106 million. That same month, it used the same process to approve a sale of primers, fuzes and charges for Israel’s 155mm artillery shells previously sold by the U.S. The sale of the shells and added equipment totaled $147 million.
State Department officials have defended the move to expedite the sales, noting they have also used the mechanism to speed up weapons transfers for Ukraine, an argument that clearly didn’t sway certain members of Congress.
The Democratic lawmakers also pressed Blinken on whether the U.S. has conducted any vetting of Israel under the Leahy Law, which bars U.S. assistance to foreign militaries that commit gross human rights violations. “Use of a national emergency waiver does not exempt the U.S. government from assessing whether arms sales are consistent with these policies,” they argued.
In addition to Warren, the letter was signed by Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Fifteen House Democrats also signed on, including Reps. Betty McCollum of Minnesota and Barbara Lee of California, the top Democrats on the House panels that control appropriations to the State Department and the Pentagon.
Oversight of arms transfers will likely be a topic of debate when senators consider a $111 billion emergency aid package for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel. Democrats, led by Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, are pushing to reverse a proposal by the Biden administration that would allow officials to waive congressional notification requirements for some U.S. military aid to Israel.
I could not believe Israel was that stupid to have a “gun free” anything when they are surrounded by enemies who have taken death oaths to kill Jews.
If a few of those folks had even glocks, the outcome would have been totally different. The terrorists would have had to drop down, hundreds more would have been able to escape. Their weapons could have been seized and turned on the terrorists. This is normal stuff of IDF legend yet they left themselves unprotected, like lambs to slaughter. I didn’t understand it, especially knowing that everyone in Israel has military training.
Now, guns are everywhere because they closed the barn door.
Too late.
Thanks Dean. A lot of folks have/had no idea of these facts about Israel believing it to be a gun owners paradise. It wasn’t.(At least in recent years) Hopefully that has or will change.
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