The Official Israel-Gaza Thread

[Pull Up the Roots]

Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile.

The White House has requested the removal of restrictions on all categories of weapons and ammunition Israel is allowed to access from U.S. weapons stockpiles stored in Israel itself.

The move to lift restrictions was included in the White House’s supplemental budget request, sent to the Senate on October 20. “This request would,” the proposed budget says, “allow for the transfer of all categories of defense articles.”

The request pertains to little-known weapons stockpiles in Israel that the Pentagon established for use in regional conflicts, but which Israel has been permitted to access in limited circumstances — the very limits President Joe Biden is seeking to remove.

“If enacted, the amendments would create a two-step around restrictions on U.S. weapons transfers to Israel,” said John Ramming Chappell, a legal fellow with the Center for Civilians in Conflict.

Created in the 1980s to supply the U.S. in case of a regional war, the War Reserve Stockpile Allies-Israel, or WRSA-I, is the largest node in a network of what are effectively foreign U.S. weapons caches. Highly regulated for security, the stockpiles are governed by a set of strict requirements. Under circumstances laid out in these requirements, Israel has been able to draw on the stockpile, purchasing the weapons at little cost if it uses the effective subsidy of U.S. military aid.

With the WRSA-I, Biden is looking to lift virtually all the meaningful restrictions on the stockpile and the transfer of its arms to Israel, with plans to remove limitations to obsolete or surplus weapons, waive an annual spending cap on replenishing the stockpile, remove weapon-specific restrictions, and curtail congressional oversight. All of the changes in the Biden budget plan would be permanent, except for lifting the spending cap, which is limited to the 2024 fiscal year.

The changes would come in an arms-trade relationship that is already shrouded in secrecy, as The Intercept recently reported. Whereas the administration has provided pages of detailed lists of weapons provided to Ukraine, for instance, its disclosure about arms provided to Israel could fit in a single, short sentence.

The U.S. government is only supposed to spend $200 million per fiscal year restocking the WRSA-I — about half the total cap for all U.S. stockpiles round the globe. The White House request, however, would waive the limit on U.S. contributions to the stockpile in Israel. That would allow the stockpile to be continuously replenished.

“The President’s emergency supplemental funding request,” Paul said, “would essentially create a free-flowing pipeline to provide any defense articles to Israel by the simple act of placing them in the WRSA-I stockpile, or other stockpiles intended for Israel.”

The U.S. currently requires that Israel grant certain concessions in exchange for certain types of arms assistance from the Pentagon, but the White House request would remove this condition as well.

Finally, the White House request would also reduce congressional oversight of U.S. arms transfers by reducing the length of advance notice made to Congress before a weapons transfers. Under current law, there must be 30 days prior notice, but the Biden budget request would allow this to be shortened in “extraordinary” circumstances.

“The Biden administration’s supplemental budget request would further undermine oversight and accountability even as U.S. support enables an Israeli campaign that has killed thousands of children,” said Chappell, of Center for Civilians in Conflict.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Payday23]

 

[mastermind]

…

 

[mastermind]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Pressure]

We celebrating the kind kidnapping of individuals today?

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

 

[FAH1223]

We celebrating the kind kidnapping of individuals today?

Observing what they’re telling the journalists. A couple of things

They were held near Khan Younis hospital. Which means now the IDF is going to bomb that area. And that’s in south Gaza which they told everyone to evacuate to.

Secondly, it seems Hamas kept the hostages in the same places. You have this testimony here and the relatives of the Thai workers also saying similar.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Yea, you're emotional.

I hope you aren't like this in real life, you know one of those dudes who get their feelings hurt and try and talk louder than everyone as though that adds value to what you're saying.

But you wanna pull up on people in real life over video games in The Arcadium

Make it make sense

If anyone hasn't realized it now @Pressure is just some contrarian troll that should be ignored. Dude adds no value to any conversation in any forum on this site, and only lives to do some gotcha whataboutism bullshyt with people on the internet.

 

[Pressure]

Observing what they’re telling the journalists. A couple of things

They were held near Khan Younis hospital. Which means now the IDF is going to bomb that area. And that’s in south Gaza which they told everyone to evacuate to.

Secondly, it seems Hamas kept the hostages in the same places. You have this testimony here and the relatives of the Thai workers also saying similar.

They should return the hostages.

 

[Pressure]

But you wanna pull up on people in real life over video games in The Arcadium

Make it make sense

If anyone hasn't realized it now @Pressure is just some contrarian troll that should be ignored. Dude adds no value to any conversation in any forum on this site, and only lives to do some gotcha whataboutism bullshyt with people on the internet.

You're stalking a man around on a message board. All because you're made nikkas play video games on an Xbox. Get some help.