A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill in the House that would effectively give Israel the power to veto US arms sales to countries in the Middle East. Since the UAE and Israel agreed to normalize relations, a possible F-35 sale to Abu Dhabi has caused concern in Congress over Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge (QME).
The QME is mandated by US law and means Washington will ensure Israel maintains military superiority over its neighbors. Currently, it is up to Congress to ensure Israel’s QME. The new bill would require Israel to be consulted before any arms sales are made that could jeopardize the QME.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL). In a press release, Rep. Schneider said the bill would “require the President to consult with the Israeli government to ensure QME concerns are settled” regarding arms sales to Middle Eastern countries.
“Israel is our single most important ally in the Middle East, and Congress will not let any President undermine her security with unapproved weapons sales,” Schneider said. Seventeen other members of Congress sponsored the bill alongside Schneider.
Israel initially objected to the F-35 sale to the UAE, but has since submitted a wishlist of over $8 billion in advanced weaponry if the deal goes through. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in September about the deal. Esper vowed the US would maintain Israel’s QME.
Not gonna happen.
Under either Biden or Trump it will happen.
I’ll take that bet.
If you can, vote third party, any third party. Maybe if enough of us don’t play the “two of their choices” is enough” game, (perhaps some day we’ll get a few more choices) maybe one that put American people’s interests paramount, and jeer at all of outstretched hands from abroad and their self interests and aggrandisment! Not that many alternatives this time. Probably only Rainbow & Libertarian. For me, either one would be better than the owned and indifferent donkey & a gluttonus elephant. Biden is Hillary, Trump is Romney. I voted Rainbow Jill last time. This time not sure who all the candidates will be. Will Trump survive coved? Will Pence take his place…? I cannot think of any Dem or Repo man or woman with a snow ball’s chance in hell for whom I would vote.. But I will always want more than two choices for leader of our country. We don’t own our money or the “Federal Reserve” and too many of our politicians are owned by the highest bidder. When the people who own our money and our politicians, choose our candidates too, we are stuck in a never ending losing game with no way to break free, save revolution!
The Qualitative Military Edge is the kind of sh*t that leads to imbeciles believing in silly notions like ZOG. Israel is little more than a Middle Eastern Anglo-American colony gone wild. They need to be cut off, permanently. Sink or swim. Any “nation” that can’t maintain it’s existence without constant interference from a superpower on the other side of the globe probably isn’t really a nation and probably doesn’t deserve to exist.
Not just “probably”. Israel is a 19th century colonial race state, and a world-historical criminal state for its genocidal policies against the peoples of the Middle East It should be brought to book along with its US neocon geniuses and factota -generals, media and pols- like the nazis before.
When you return home after being driven out of your previous home, thats not colonialism
Pat Buchanan’s comment in 1990 about Congress being occupied is even more true today.
As much as I dislike the man, he has been correct at times.
consigliere Kushner…..?????
Not only occupied but owned. Our country is in the dumpster because of vile deceitful zionists
Our country is in the dumpster because of our corrupt power elite, of assorted ethnicities-most of them white Christians
And he was quoting Eisenhower, I believe…
So it’s no news.
Please explain how such a bill does not fit the definition of TREASON??? And those introducing and supporting it not fit the definition of TRAITORS?? Israel is clearly our enemy. Just ask the sailors from the USS Liberty and those who lost loved ones on 9-11.
“Please explain how such a bill does not fit the definition of TREASON???”
Sure: Treason is a crime of war (“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort”), and the US is not at war. QED, treason is impossible at the moment and has been since 1945.
You’re welcome.
Remember the USS Liberty!
This more of betrayal than any else. Hence israel is not one of the Five-Eyes because of habitual dishonesty. How bout them codes boys? isreal has refused to give the codes after the usa bought the damn things. Betrayal again, almost like a trend?
Tell that to the Rosenbergs.
The Rosenbergs were not convicted of treason. That was one of the initial charges, and it was dropped.
Oh, what was it then, hate speech?..
Another loyal American politician who left his heart on the kibbutz.
Please explain how all those Representatives and Senators who have signed AIPAC developed agreements (based on Representative Cynthia McKinney’s exposure), have them promising to maintain the security of Israel while supporting all her policies have not been arrested for treason and crimes against the state?
Sure, I can explain that:
Words mean things.
You’re welcome.
Treason: A violation of allegiance to one’s country esp. by acting to overthrow the government.
He might not have done anything to get arrested for but he was treasonous. At least according to the dictionary. So, yes, words do mean something.
The word “treason” has a definition IN LAW. And under that definition, until and unless Congress declares that a state of war exists, it’s impossible to commit the crime in question.
It is however a seditious act. The making of the United States a Vassal State to a foreign Nation!
And the word “treason” has a definition IN THE DICTIONARY. I even said he couldn’t be arrested so I acknowledged the definition IN LAW.
What about any President that signs such a law,….. that would also be treason. Proof positive that the United States of America, is the vassal state of Israel. by direct definition, A vassal state is any state that is subordinate to another. The tail wags the dog!
If you think that the attack on the USS Liberty was not friendly fire but was actually on purpose, what was the purpose?
https://sites.google.com/site/usslibertyinquiry/essay3
Sport.
Rep. Brad Schneider should be voted out of office by his constituents for brazen and flagrant treason. This spineless, corrupt person, who serves a belligerent foreign nation, is not what we need in Congress to “protect and preserve the interests of the United States. What a total nauseating disgrace!
First off, the US should be remaining neutral in affairs of other nations, NOT giving preferential treatment of one nation in an area over others, especially when some of those in that area are also allies. Next, Israel should have NO say in US policies (nor should any other nation)…. how is that any different then other countries interfering with US elections (allegedly)?
When did the US ever remain neutral?
Really wonderful how our No.1 Welfare Queen has just cum up with a new way to extort our tax money from our “Owned” leaders. Only eight billion more to add to the ??? trillions we owe. And it seems to me they profit diplomatically and financially from this detent. But why not extort dumb ole unc anyway if they can.
With the coved luftgelt billions & trillions we get closer & closer to the tipping point where the dollar falls over the cliff of debt which empires seem to always find to die. Meanwhile we are over in empires graveyard, working on several trillions more in financial demurrment, saping our productivity and standard of living. How about lending them the money instead of gifting it to them. Maybe they would actually be less inclined to spy on us, so they can sell or swap our secrets to Russia, China or maybe North Korea as they did with Pollard. With friends like them, we need to count the silver whenever they stop by.
What is this? Formalizing what already exists, does anyone really believe AIPAC isn’t already in control of these policies.
Prob nothing new here but just confirms the level of pandering (read groveling) to a new level in the cess pool that is congress.
Bipartisan Bill Would Give Israel Veto Powers Over US Arms Sales
MvGuy Mary Myers 3 hours ago
If you can, vote third party, any third party. Maybe if enough of us don’t play the “two of their choices” is enough” game, (perhaps some day we’ll get a few more choices, maybe one that put American people’s interests paramount, and jeer at all of outstretched hands from abroad and their self interests and aggrandisment! Not that many alternatives this time. Probably only Rainbow & Libertarian. For me, either one would be better than the owned and indifferent donkey & a gluttonus elephant. Biden is Hillary, Trump is Romney. I voted Rainbow Jill last time. This time not sure who all the candidates will be. Will Trump survive coved? Will Pence take his place…? I cannot think of any Dem or Repo man or woman with a snow ball’s chance in hell for whom I would vote.. But I will always want more than two choices for leader of our country. We don’t own our money or the “Federal Reserve” and too many of our politicians are owned by the highest bidder. When the people who own our money and our politicians, choose our candidates too, we are stuck in a never ending losing game with no way to break free, save revolution!
What’s there to say other than America loves pimping for Israel.
But who is the pimp and who is the ho?
not so long ago, the state department was pimped out by arabists
WRONG!
WTF!!????????????
Brad Scneider is a treasonous bastard. ..
Each one of these “lawmakers” should be prosecuted for treason. Giving a hostile foreign power veto power over the U.S. legislature? And why haven’t they been prosecuted for violating the law requiring them to register as agents of a foreign government?
Israel is not a hostile foreign power;
What does Hamas want to do after it defeats Israel?
When the rocket attacks first began against Israel, a senior Hamas leader, Dr. Yunis Al-Astal, published an article in the Hamas journal, Al-Risala, where he compared Hamas’ al-Qassam rockets to the Manjaniq catapult which the Prophet Muhammad used against the Jews of Khaybar. The fall of Khaybar, he explained, opened the gates of the Byzantine Empire to Muslim conquest and was the first step towards the fall of Constantinople. Now, the fall of Israel, he said, would open the gates of Europe to Islam and lead to the fall of Rome.
Hamas MP and cleric Al-Astal proclaimed in 2008, “We will conquer Rome, and from there continue to conquer the two Americas and even Eastern Europe” (Al-Aqsa TV, April 11, 2008)
It’s in our interest to give Israel weapons so that Israeli soldiers will fight Hamas over there rather than needing to have our soldiers fight Hamas here.
“rather than needing to fight our soldiers over here”
Are they going to get here using their Navy or Air Force? And will they be attacking us with their state of the art weaponry? Or did we decide to send them 4 billion per year?
Yeah, because guys who have to resort to “fire balloons” are going to cross the Atlantic and invade New Jersey. The only way anyone is going to conquer America is if continue to destroy our economy and culture with every-expanding government, driven by foreign adventurism, including funding the apartheid regime in Israel.
And I disagree with your claim that Israel is not a hostile foreign power. Not only is it hostile, it’s occupied our legislature and stealing hundreds of billions of our tax dollars that could have been funding our infrastructure and health care.
Why worry about Russian interference in our elections when an apartheid state rides shotgun on our gov? BDS!!!
Palestinian terrorists are conducting genocide against the Jews. The Palestinian Authority pays people to murder Jews. The more Jews they kill, the more money they get. That’s genocide! Why is there BDS against the Israeli victims of genocide, but no BDS against the Palestinian terrorists who are committing genocide?
The Jews have guns, the Palestinians have rocks. Who is conducting genocide?
What was it the Founding Fathers believed? Avoid foreign entanglements. While that ship sailed a long time ago, this is a even worse step. Who knows what the future will bring among foreign nations. That’s a good reason not to allow them to dictate our strategic interests.
Anyone out there who still dosen’t think that it’s Israel that calls the shots? Anyone out there who still dosen’t think that the USA is Israeli occupied territory? Anyone out there still in a state of denial because, after all, they are “God’s chosen people?”
So now we know who is really running the US of A.
The country is run by various,competing and cooperating power interests, of which Israel is a very modest part. Its just that it annoys you
Israel is NOT our friend
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjimin Netanyahu was recorded on tape at Fink’s Bar in Jerusalem threatening the destruction of the United States in 1990.
Veterans Today has corroborated from multiple sources the conversation recorded by the US Defense Intelligence Agency in which Netanyahu called for the destruction of the United States.
“If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God, and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.”
The context for the plan to destroy the United States piece by piece was a meeting at Fink’s where a group of Israeli espionage agents, Netanyahu among them, were celebrating the capture of 5 KG 84 cryptographic devices which they stole from the United States military with the help of Canadians working for the UN in the Golan Heights, thus giving the Israelis and any of their clients direct real time access to all US State Department, Naval, and NATO communications.
Prove it.
Provide evidence.
I see zero credible corroboration of this from ANY source. Just clones on reddit.
Israel and the United States are two countries that have a higher calling and a greater responsibility than to submit to popular opinion or political correctness. Follow this link if you want the truth…
https://www.openbible.info/topics/protecting_israel