US and UK tighten up arms shipments to Israel

[polarbear]

A new report reveals that US President Barack Obama's administration stopped a shipment of missiles to Israel late last month and tightened weapons shipment procedures to Israel, as tensions between the two nations grow amid Operation Protective Edge.
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The decision to clamp down on future transfers was the equivalent of "the United States saying 'the buck stops here. Wait a second…It's not OK anymore,'" said the official.
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According to US officials cited in the Wall Street Journal report, the Wednesday night phone call between Obama and Netanyahu was "particularly combative."
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The report noted that on July 20, ahead of the Hellfire missile cancellation, the IDF asked the US military for various munitions such as 120-mm mortar shells and 40-mm illuminating rounds, without the knowledge of Obama's administration
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The US decision to tighten down on arms transfers to Israel comes as the UK is threatening similar actions. On Tuesday, the British government threatened to suspend 12 arms export licenses to Israel if fighting resumed in Gaza.

Which would explain why Israel agreed to "further negotiations"

 

[Beelzebub]

Cool.

 

[P F Tinmore]

White House in the dark over arms supplies to Israel: report

Washington (AFP) - Israel secured supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon last month without the approval of the White House or the State Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Since officials there were caught off guard as they tried to restrain Israel's campaign in Gaza, the administration of President Barack Obama has tightened controls on arms shipments to Israel, the newspaper said, quoting US and Israeli officials.

White House in the dark over arms supplies to Israel: report

 

[polarbear]

Cool.

And getting colder.

12 countries join France, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain in issuing similar warning to their citizens
Twelve European Union countries have warned over the past day their citizens of doing business with Jewish settlements or companies operating in the West Bank, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday.
“Financial transactions, investments, purchases, procurements as well as other economic activities (including services like tourism) in Israeli settlements or benefiting Israeli settlements, entail legal and economic risks stemming from the fact that the Israeli settlements, according to international law, are built on occupied land and are not recognized as a legitimate part of Israel’s territory,” the statement said.
“Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict impossible,” the statement read. “The EU and its Member States will not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties,” it stated.

 

[Phoenall]

Watch what happens when the Israeli's withdraw orders from these nations defence industries and go to Russia or China for the weapons. Then the US will have to eat humble pie or start laying its workers off.

 

[Mad Scientist]

White House in the dark over arms supplies to Israel: report

Washington (AFP) - Israel secured supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon last month without the approval of the White House or the State Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

So the Prezbident can stop all the shipments he wants, they go over his head!

No you see who REALLY runs this country!

 

[P F Tinmore]

White House in the dark over arms supplies to Israel: report

Washington (AFP) - Israel secured supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon last month without the approval of the White House or the State Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

So the Prezbident can stop all the shipments he wants, they go over his head!

No you see who REALLY runs this country!

Indeed, the criminal class.

We have known that for a long time.

 

[polarbear]

Watch what happens when the Israeli's withdraw orders from these nations defence industries and go to Russia or China for the weapons. Then the US will have to eat humble pie or start laying its workers off.

As if.
So far Israel did not have to pay for any of it with it`s own money.
And there is no way that the US will fork over US tax$$$ to China or Russia to pay for any Israeli arms orders.
It`s not the US that has to eat "humble pie" if they order arms and munitions from somewhere else.

 

[docmauser1]

A new report reveals that US President Barack Obama's administration stopped a shipment of missiles to Israel late last month and tightened weapons shipment procedures to Israel, as tensions between the two nations grow amid Operation Protective Edge.
.....
The decision to clamp down on future transfers was the equivalent of "the United States saying 'the buck stops here. Wait a second…It's not OK anymore,'" said the official.
.......

According to US officials cited in the Wall Street Journal report, the Wednesday night phone call between Obama and Netanyahu was "particularly combative."
........

The report noted that on July 20, ahead of the Hellfire missile cancellation, the IDF asked the US military for various munitions such as 120-mm mortar shells and 40-mm illuminating rounds, without the knowledge of Obama's administration
......

The US decision to tighten down on arms transfers to Israel comes as the UK is threatening similar actions. On Tuesday, the British government threatened to suspend 12 arms export licenses to Israel if fighting resumed in Gaza.

Which would explain why Israel agreed to "further negotiations"

Washingron is reliably unreliable, indeed. Mubarak knows. hehe