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Blinken report expected to say Israel is not breaking weapons terms, Axios reports
Reuters ^ | May 10, 2024

Posted on 05/10/2024 10:20:38 AM PDT by SJackson

May 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a highly critical report to Congress as soon as Friday on Israel's conduct in Gaza that stops short of concluding it has violated the terms for its use of U.S. weapons, Axios said on Thursday. The report, citing three officials, added that the State Department was reviewing the use of weapons by Israel and six other countries engaged in different armed conflicts.

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that the Biden administration was set to miss a Wednesday deadline to report to Congress on whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in Gaza. A national security memorandum, NSM-20, issued by President Joe Biden in February, required the department to report to Congress by May 8 how credible are Israel's assurances that its use of U.S. weapons does not violate U.S. or international law.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel

1 posted on 05/10/2024 10:20:38 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 05/10/2024 10:21:36 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: SJackson

Jew $$$$$ or pro hamass votes? Make up your mind fjb!


3 posted on 05/10/2024 10:31:43 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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They dropped the bombs from the air and fired the artillery shells out of cannon. Really Joe, what do you think happens in a war? You fired missile from a drone and destroyed family in Kabul so that you could say you took out a terrorist. No morals Joe strikes again.


4 posted on 05/10/2024 11:01:30 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Harpotoo
Jew $$$$$ or pro hamass votes? Make up your mind fjb!

Which is why such reports are dishonest. They're politically motivated. The "findings" are determined by political considerations, and then rationales are provided to justify the "findings."

5 posted on 05/10/2024 11:03:30 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SJackson

i dont trust Blinker or Biden any further than I can toss an obese hippopotamus over the Empire State Building


6 posted on 05/10/2024 11:10:59 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Oh NOW Blinken cooks up a report to address Israel’s “use” of weapons they BOUGHT from the US. Sure, maybe they spent US 3 billion a year subsidy on them.. on weapons. The STILL purchased the weapons we aren’t delivering, and now trying to say HOW they use them is part of the sale? NUTS.

This is like worldwide gun control (trigger locks, licensing mandates, who can and cannot have arms).. writ on sovereign nations. Think anybody like the UN could try this on say... Russian arms sent to Afghanistan? State Dept hacks have NO say on this— period. We have (DOD) denied spare parts for weapons systems as a leverage. Now even the sale?

This is rescuing HAMAS and the bernie bots commies who support islamofascism worldwide. To come to the USA soon!

No way!


7 posted on 05/10/2024 12:04:36 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: faithhopecharity
i dont trust Blinker or Biden any further than I can toss an obese hippopotamus over the Empire State Building

That's not that difficult. You just grab the hippo by the Fani and give it a good heft!

8 posted on 05/10/2024 12:21:25 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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May I at least put hippo on a diet first? I’m a novice at Hippo-Flinging and he’s really fat


9 posted on 05/10/2024 12:35:01 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SJackson

They are not assessing Ukraine in that group of six countries.


10 posted on 05/10/2024 1:12:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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No. Apparently only seven of the 103 countries we export to are being “examined”. We’ve approved transfers to Qatar and Lebanon yesterday. And of course the report will say Israel isn’t violating international or US law. The delays are political, an attempt to control Israel’s defense strategy in hopes of gaining more pro Hamas votes than they’ll lose pro-Israel votes in several states.


11 posted on 05/10/2024 1:36:27 PM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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