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Obama blocks sale of 6 AH-64D helicopters to Israel - approves 12 to Egypt
IMRA ^ | 6/1/2009 | staff

Posted on 06/01/2009 5:06:29 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has blocked Israel's request for advanced U.S.-origin attack helicopters.

Government sources said the administration has held up Israel's request for the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter. The sources said the request was undergoing an interagency review to determine whether additional Longbow helicopters would threaten Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apache; armsbuildup; bho44; bhoegypt; bhomiddleeast; blocks; egypt; fubo; helicopters; husseinobama; obama; sale
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To: bushwon

The Alphabet media is living a lie along with Obama....China holds his purse strings, as evidenced by Geithner’s trip to China.
If you want to spend money you don’t have, you need a Credit card.
China is deciding Obama’s Cr Card limit......and it ain’t 7 Trillion.


61 posted on 06/01/2009 6:27:08 PM PDT by 4Speed
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To: brwnsuga

exactly!


62 posted on 06/01/2009 6:27:55 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: Nachum

Somehow that does not surprise me.


63 posted on 06/01/2009 6:31:47 PM PDT by quesera (The age of darkness is upon us.)
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To: RFEngineer
The Israelis did just fine the last two Big Events. Hell, they even gave the Sinai peninsula back. Few on this forum appreciate how socialist the Israeli government is. They are an ally, but that is it. The apocalyptic end-times prognostications are hyperbole. That said, the pan-Arab and Iranian bloodbath amongst themselves is not going to bother me one bit.
64 posted on 06/01/2009 6:33:32 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: RFEngineer
Interesting views, but that's not why we send Israel foreign aid. We send Israel military aid so that it can defend itself, but we send other aid so that Israel can feed itself, develop various infrastructure, industry, etc.

For Israel to do such as ghastly thing as nuke it's neighbors in a preventative offensive would surely bring down Gods wrath on herself.
God is very clear on what Israel's nature should be- defensive, not preventative.

The Arabs will fulfill prophecy and destroy millions of themselves by their own hand. If Israel doesn't have faith, then those outside of faith will find themselves caught up in it. That seems to be the way it has always worked, isn't it.

65 posted on 06/01/2009 6:41:00 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: humblegunner

I’d suggest they throw their own rocks and not rely on American ones.
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Are you anti-Semitic?


66 posted on 06/01/2009 6:41:27 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: mylife

This makes no sense at all This is weirded out


67 posted on 06/01/2009 6:41:51 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Wow...I’ve always believed that the day that the U.S. turns its back on Israel is the day we drive the final nail into our coffin. The hammer has been readied to drive that final nail...God have mercy on our GREAT NATION. God continually Bless Israel and my constant prayers are for the Peace of Jerusalem.


68 posted on 06/01/2009 6:44:25 PM PDT by az.b1bbomberfxr
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To: az.b1bbomberfxr

You nailed the spot with that one.

As the Scripture says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem...They shall prosper that love thee..”


69 posted on 06/01/2009 6:46:21 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: humblegunner

Perhaps a better question is why the Crypto-Commie, closet Muslim blocked 6 such helicopters while approving 12 for Egypt.


70 posted on 06/01/2009 6:46:33 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Nathan Zachary
So like, 56 plus years wasn't enough time to develop and build their own helicopters?

Israel has fewer than 8 million people. They have neither the population not the economy to develop their own copters.

71 posted on 06/01/2009 6:52:06 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Kirkwood
When I ask them why, they say he will end war forever by uniting the world with peace and prosperity.

Stupid libtards!

72 posted on 06/01/2009 6:52:23 PM PDT by quesera (The age of darkness is upon us.)
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To: RFEngineer

“..the knee-slapping comedy”.

I had never thought about the comic aspect of Islam Delenda Est, but you have a point.

As Tom Lehrer said, “infused with an incandescent glow”.


73 posted on 06/01/2009 6:55:12 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Kirkwood

they say he will end war forever by uniting the world with peace and prosperity.

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Sounds eerily like what God’s Word says about the Antichrist.


74 posted on 06/01/2009 6:56:25 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: AH_LiveRight

INSIGHT OF THE NIGHT ! ! ! !

“Few on this forum appreciate how socialist the Israeli government is.”

Israel’s level of socialism, and its negative impact on Israel can be summed up in the fact that Israel is the only place in the world where a Jew can’t make a living.

Socialism isn’t really all that efficient, after all.


75 posted on 06/01/2009 6:57:35 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: AH_LiveRight

Forgive my ignorance but what is KSA??


76 posted on 06/01/2009 6:58:50 PM PDT by quesera (We are so screwed!!)
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To: RFEngineer
"Selling attack helicopters to Egypt, and denying them to Israel is a good start towards a pan-Arab+Iran apocalypse, and the knee-slapping comedy that would follow."

That's what I was thinking. I think Iran is going to go after everything south of the Euphrates, not Israel. Fits scripture better too.

77 posted on 06/01/2009 6:59:21 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: RFEngineer

And Obama is the perfect idiot to allow Iran to do that too, plus allow Putin and Iran to form what the bible calls the last Persian empire, which probably means a multi nation alliance with complete control over the entire ME and enough power to subdue all of Europe.


78 posted on 06/01/2009 7:03:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: PapaBear3625
"Israel has fewer than 8 million people. They have neither the population not the economy to develop their own copters.

Nonsense. Canada became the second largest military force in the world during ww1 and the beginning of ww2 with 11 million people spread over a country thousands of times larger than Israel and ten times poorer than Israel.

79 posted on 06/01/2009 7:06:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: quesera
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Home of Mecca and Medina, birthplace of Waha'ab (extremist) Islam. The House of Saud are to be the “keepers” of all of the lands conquered by Islam. This is why Obama kissed the ring.
80 posted on 06/01/2009 7:08:28 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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