Posted on 10/29/2023 5:13:43 PM PDT by Mariner
The US has threatened to stop supplying rifles to Israel after their national security minister was seen handing them out to civilians.
The diplomatic spat was prompted by images on social media of Itamar Ben-Gvir giving rifles to community security squads across the country, according to Israel’s daily Haaretz.
The images appeared to show Mr Ben-Gvir distributing the arms at political events in Bnei Brak and El’ad, two towns near Tel Aviv.
After several days of diplomatic exchanges, Israel committed to distributing the weapons only through its police or army, although politicians can be present when they are handed out.
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We’ve now got a treasonous friggin’ government.
All of them.
No sh*t half of Biden’s staff are Iran Hamas lovers..and I didnt know that the US had already supplied Israel with weapons I thought that was part of the package Biden wanted along with the money for Ukraine that congress has to pass
Because it blows their push for disarmament in the USA out of the water.
They should make it so that anyone who have served in the IDF can get a gun. So that would exempt the Arab population.
Seriously, one can’t help but wonder what has happened to all those old Mausers and Enfields and M1 carbines that Israel must have accumulated since 1948. Also stuff like Enfield revolvers and other odd stuff like P38’s, etc.
They’ve still got that stuff somewhere, right? Surely they knew better than to throw all that valuable stuff in the ocean.
Open it up to Israeli citizens. A bolt rifle or a revolver are a thousand times better than nothing.
If they’re community security then they aren’t civilians.
Not even that.
Go buy AKs from an arms dealer and they’ll have the weapons of their enemy. Find Hamas’ caches and its free ammo for everyone.
Called….battlefield recovery, in military terms.
About 300,000.
The German Mauser Kar98K was used by the Israeli forces for decades. Originally in 7.92 caliber, most were converted to the 7.62 caliber to match the new FAL rifles. After the 73 Yom Kippur War, most were sent to Central America and some to the US market. A great surplus bolt action if you can find one!
Nest will be a demand for background checks on the recipients.
“The US is opposed to Israeli citizens having the means to defend themselves.”
Of course they are.
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I think maybe that is what is going on now in practice...just that not many pols are going to admit it or talk about it. I think maybe they gamed it out and determined certain segments of their citizenry can’t be trusted with small arms in an invasion type scenario because they might not fight on Israel’s side.
I guess we could figure it out if we knew what % of muslim Israelis volunteer for the idf and what % are then allowed to possess small arms after their service.
Freegards
I’m thinking they might have tactical demographic reasons to not allow their regular citizens to have small arms...not sure if I agree with it, but that might be why. I sure haven’t seen anyone official claim it’s a reason, but maybe they wouldn’t like admitting it either.
Freegards
But the Taliban.........
It’s not ‘the US’, it’s the treasonous, criminally corrupt, entirely evil Xiden cabal.
They don’t need our rifles. IWI makes a great 7.62. I’ve got the Tavor 7. It’s a sturdy “hand cannon”!
Biden polls among the Muslim bloc must be tanking.
As expected the rats are kneecapping Israel. They had a short window to go all in and it passed
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