Posted on 06/20/2016 4:41:43 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON -- Frustrated over a stall in an arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Obama once questioned the necessity of maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge in the region, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.
Panetta was confirming a report from Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who attributed the claim to him in an article on Obama's foreign policy doctrine published last March.
The former Pentagon chief said the White House, at the time, was deeply concerned that Israel was preparing to unilaterally strike Iran. Simultaneously, the administration was also hoping to complete with Riyadh a significant sale of fighter jets.
According to US law, the Defense Department must ensure that weapons sales to Mideast nations must comport with an American guarantee of Israel's qualitative military edge (QME) in the region.
"We were going through a lot of contortions in order to deal with this issue, to develop the kind of technical responses that you have to develop in order to make sure that you protect Israel's qualitative edge," Panetta told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy at an event on Monday.
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Rest assured Israel being the chosen people, even so some Jews unfortunately don’t act like it, have survived for thousands of years and I believe they will continue to survive.
Donald Trump or Bust.
” . . looks like he’s starting on the Israelis.”
It would be better for all concerned if he was only starting,
He’s been on Israel since day one,
Unfortunately, because we elected this evil creature, we’re all very likely going to reap just what gets sown from this evil Belshazzar/Haman occupying the White House,
How dare Israel be able to defend her small self from the huge area that wants to destroy her......
You're absolutely correct. Of course it is to be expected from a muzzie bastard. The thing that really perplexes me is the level of support he has enjoyed, and continues to receive, from American Jews.
We did not elect him. People cast their votes, but it was
George Soros who counted the votes, and that is how obambi
became president.
Twice.
Very Stalinistic, don’t you know...
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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As he would, makes it tougher to kill Jews. No matter how much support we provide for Iran.
Bump!
This is an archival topic; also from the Obama era:
Kurdish government responds to US allegations of rights violations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3502219/posts
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