Biden administration not required to disclose sales below set dollar amount, in addition to public shipments worth over $573m

The US is reported to have made more than 100 weapons sales to Israel, including thousands of bombs, since the start of the war in Gaza, but the deliveries escaped congressional oversight because each transaction was under the dollar amount requiring approval.

“This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said.

She added that, in exploiting the loophole, the Biden administration was following the steps of its predecessor. “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight,” Tolany said.

In defending its continued arms sales to Israel, despite ever more public misgivings about its conduct of the Gaza war, the administration has argued that they are part of the US’s basic commitment to Israel’s self defence.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•8 months ago

    You’re making up arguments for me because you ran out of steam?

    I’ll take the compliment.

    You’re ignoring the documented second and calling actions talk. That’s clearly down to your misapprehension of many words and phrases.

    Facts aren’t “whataboutism”.

    Direct sctions are not “walkie-talkie”, dropping military aid to your ally’s enemy is an action regardless of how critically it undermines your inaccurate believies.

    • @AceticonEnglish
      0•8 months ago

      LOL, you’re not even managing basic Logic anymore, so high you are on tribalist copium.

      Enjoy comming up with excuses for the guy supporting the closest we’ve ever been to the Nazis since the actual Nazis.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 months ago

        So you don’t know anything about modern genocides do you? This is not the largest genocide since the Nazis, not by any measure of again , context, which you just don’t seem to understand.

        You want a simple answer, but that’s not how the real world works.

        And if the US stops sending weapons, this conflict will continue regardless and that leverage goes away.