[Sabramerican]

was in violation of U.S. law

BS. Not only was it not in violation of anything but they had run it through with the US without objection. New circumstances caused a US reevaluation which ended up costing Israel both financially and in other ways.

[George W. Bush]

BS. Not only was it not in violation of anything but they had run it through with the US without objection. You can keep saying this. I can find no such account. Instead, I find reports of Congress (House) threatening to withold future aid to Israel, Cohen slamming pressure on them, Clinton twisting their arms in the middle of the Iraelis-Palestinian peace talks in order to get this sale cancelled. I can't find anything that shows they had an approval. I don't think it would mean much anyway coming from the Clinton administration. Clearly, we had to pull out all the stops to make them cancel this sale.