It’s just being reported that Joe Biden has issued waivers to bypass sanctions so that he can sell weapons to Israel’s enemies, including Lebanon and Qatar, while blocking the sale of weapons to our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Here’s more from Free Beacon:
Less than a day before the Biden administration announced its intent to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel, it issued a sanctions waiver to bypass congressional prohibitions on arms sales to a host of Arab nations that boycott the Jewish state, including Hamas ally Qatar and Iran-controlled Lebanon, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
On Tuesday—just a day before President Joe Biden threatened to withhold key weapons deliveries from Israel if the country moves forward with an incursion in the Gaza Strip’s Rafah neighborhood—the State Department informed Congress that it intends to bypass laws that bar the United States from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel, according to a copy of the notification obtained by the Free Beacon.
The Biden administration, which has waived these sanctions in the past, said in the notification that it intends to extend the waiver through April 30, 2025, allowing weapons to be sent to a host of nations that work closely with the Hamas terror group and other Iran-backed terror proxies.
While the administration determined that these countries engage in Israel boycotts, a condition that triggers American anti-boycott laws, bypassing these restrictions remains “in the U.S. national interest” to maintain regional stability, according to the waiver. But this justification is drawing scrutiny on Capitol Hill as the Biden administration threatens key arms shipments to Israel in a bid to force it into abandoning its campaign to eradicate Hamas.
In the section related to Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group continues to attack Israel, the Biden administration admits the nation remains committed to a full-scale boycott of Israel.
But the administration justified waiving sanctions on arms sales because “it facilitates U.S. support for Lebanese stability, sovereignty, and efforts to undermine violent extremist influences,” according to the May 7 notification letter.
The administration provided a similar rationale for Qatar—which provides shelter to Hamas’s top leadership—saying an extension of the sanctions waiver “is in the U.S. national interest as it underscores the strength of our bilateral relationship, which is crucial to maintaining security in the region.”
Ted Cruz encapsulated it this way:
“The Biden administration’s policy toward Israel and around the world is to punish our allies and boost our enemies,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon after reviewing the sanctions waiver. “They have sanctioned Israel and imposed an arms embargo. Meanwhile they’ve spent hundreds of millions pouring aid into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, dismantled sanctions on Iran, and now are suspending congressional restrictions to send weapons to Israel’s enemies such as Qatar and Lebanon.”
It is absolutely egregious that Biden is funding Israel’s enemies while blocking funding for Israel at their greatest time of need! They just suffered the WORST terrorist attack in their history and Biden is more worried about doing whatever he can to get elected, damning Israel’s security all the while.
If there was ever a time to impeach him…