{"id":517690,"date":"2021-05-17T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517690"},"modified":"2021-05-17T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:05:20","slug":"us-intends-to-sell-735-million-worth-of-weapons-to-israel-after-biden-admin-approves-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-intends-to-sell-735-million-worth-of-weapons-to-israel-after-biden-admin-approves-move\/","title":{"rendered":"US Intends To Sell $735 Million Worth Of Weapons To Israel After Biden Admin Approves Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-intends-to-sell-735-million-worth-of-weapons-to-israel-after-biden-admin-approves-move%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517690&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration approved a $735 million weapons sale to Israel earlier in May, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Congress was made aware of the sale approval May 5, almost one week before the terrorist group Hamas began rocket attacks against Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/KXD71#selection-793.122-819.48\">according to<\/a> The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas\u2019 attacks have been answered with Israeli airstrikes in a conflict that has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/israeli-palestinian-conflict-moderate-democrats-squad-nancy-pelosi-aoc\/\">caused a divide<\/a> between Democratic lawmakers. Left-wing lawmakers like New York Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-joe-biden-israel-right-to-defend-itself\/\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib have been outspoken against Biden\u2019s support for the country, and the latest weapons deal with Israel is sparking further rifts.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and other lawmakers critical of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/trump-biden-omar-unrest-israel\/\">Israel<\/a> remain at odds not only with the president, but with other Democrats backing Israel \u2013 including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/biden-netanyahu-israel-turkey-russia-hamas\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Calls Netanyahu, Declares Israel Has His \u2018Unwavering Support\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7193153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"39\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7193153\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7193153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli residents and rescue teams are pictured outside a damaged building which received earlier in the day a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, near the border between Israel and the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, on May 17, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7193153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli residents and rescue teams are pictured outside a damaged building which received earlier in the day a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, near the border between Israel and the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, on May 17, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn the past week, the Israeli military\u2019s strikes have killed many civilians and destroyed the building that housed the Associated Press, an American company reporting on the facts in Gaza,\u201d a Democratic lawmaker and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said regarding the weapons sale according to The Post. \u201cAllowing this proposed sale of smart bombs to go through without putting pressure on Israel to agree to a cease-fire will only enable further carnage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Biden administration\u2019s sale is for Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), which allow \u201cdumb\u201d bombs to be crafted into precision-guided <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/jake-sullivan-biden-israel-al-aqsa-mosque-sheikh-jarrah-jerusalem-protest\/\">weapons<\/a>, The Post reported. Congress must be notified of the sale and lawmakers have 20 days to object after a formal notification.<\/p>\n<p>While the House Foreign Affairs Committee was notified of the sale earlier in May, some lawmakers on the committee were reportedly unaware, according to The Post. One Democratic aide mentioned the \u201czero transparency\u201d within the committee in comments to the newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration approved a $735 million weapons sale to Israel earlier in May, according to The Washington Post.Congress was made aware of the sale approval May 5, almost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278307,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"US Intends To Sell $735 Million Worth Of Weapons To Israel After Biden Admin Approves Move","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232947601-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"US Intends To Sell $735 Million Worth Of Weapons To Israel After Biden Admin Approves Move","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}