Indeed , Biden does not understand what or who he is dealing with, or the protective wrath associated with it.
Posted on 12/13/2023 6:25:11 PM PST by Nextrush
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters)-The Biden Administration is delaying the sale of more than 20,000 U.S.-made rifles to Israel over concerns about attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The State Department sent an informal notification of the sale to Congress several weeks ago. But the sale has not gone ahead...
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Anybody know what model these rifles are?
(And it should go without saying that this action by Biden is assinine.)
I have read other stories calling them M-16’s.
>Anybody know what model these rifles are?
There’s an article on zerohedge that states “Most or all of the rifle shipments appear to be M-16s.”
Take that for what it’s worth.
I worked for the American division of Israel’s, at the time, largest defense company. They made everything. Usually, they took the American design and either improved it or made it suitable for their particular needs. The reason they were often able to improve something is because, very often, the cost of making an improvement for the US military is extreme. You may, for example, have to update the maintenance manuals in hundreds, or thousands of locations. The cost of that alone may far exceed any benefit from an improvement. Whereas the Israelis can implement a change overnight and change all the documentation in a day.
I digress. The idea Israel actually NEEDS these guns is unlikely. What generally happens is they have money left over that must be spent in the United States. That’s the condition to all of our foreign aid. So, they take the, essentially rounding error money at the end of the year and buy something they can resell or use for training or whatever. Trust me. They aren’t desperate for this particular weapon.
M4’s
“ G-d forbid Jews in Israel be able to defend themselves from terrorists. At least that’s how Joe Biden sees it IMHO.”
The terrorists are some of Joe’s best buds…they always kick back the 10%.
M4s. Carbine select fire M16s. Israel is the size of New Jersey. Takes time to produce weaponry like the preferred IWI Tqvkr X95.
HOW DARE ISRAEL VIOLENTLY DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST GENOCIDAL ISLAMISTS!?! /s
Those dirty dogs!
As ive been saying they are going to throw Israel under the bus. Be careful guys!
These need to be in the hands of Israeli civilians, no registration, no rules, no government interference, nothing but the arms and ammunition. We're past the point where the bureaucrats have anything of value to contribute.
The Tater is an anti-Semite.
Israel should have a nice collection of M-4 rifles captured from Gaza that were originally abandoned in Afghanistan after that withdrawal debacle.
Israel makes plenty of semi-auto rifles and send them over here. Is there some reason they can’t sell them there?
Why can’t Israel make their own weapons?
If they’re M16s then they’re old rifles, from armories across the land.
Israel should just buy AKs. Cheaper. Easier to maintain. The revolver of the rifle world. And it’s what the bad guys carry, so they’ll always be ammunition lying around.
Did the Israelis stop making the Galil?
they can buy the rifles biden left in afganistan cheaper on the black market anyways.
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Indeed , Biden does not understand what or who he is dealing with, or the protective wrath associated with it.
Yeah, why buy American weapons from the United States when you can buy the same weapons from the Taliban; the ones that Jao Bai-din abandoned in Afghanistan.
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