U.S. delays sale of guns to prevent use by settlers

Biden administration already sanctioning violent West Bank settlers and preventing their entry to U.S. fears providing guns ordered for community security teams would free up arms for Ben-Gvir to deliver to settlements
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Israel is experiencing a shortage in the supply of firearms for, among others, community security teams, caused by delays in authorization by the State Department and Congress.
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Some 8,350 guns ordered from the Colt's gun manufacturer and from Daniel Defense, that had been approved in November, have not yet been supplied.
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir with guns for Ashkelon community defense teams
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The delays come following a decision by the Biden administration to review sales of guns to Israel amid concerns that they would be used by West Bank settlers, despite assurances from the government that they would not be supplied to settlements.
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תיעוד: מתנחלים חמושים וחיילים נכנסים לכפר הפלסטיני אל-מוערג׳את, ומרביצים לתושבים
תיעוד: מתנחלים חמושים וחיילים נכנסים לכפר הפלסטיני אל-מוערג׳את, ומרביצים לתושבים
Armed settler on rampage in a Palestinian West Bank village last month
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The Americans worried that the National Security Ministry under far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir would provide other weapons to the settlers, if supplied the American purchases, hence the months-long delay, that is in addition to sanctions imposed on settlers by the administration that include a ban on entry to the U.S. for violent settlers.
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It is perfectly plausible in the the minds of the Biden administration to obstruct what they see as the ownership and use of firearms by citizens of Israel. After all, The Biden administration considers soccer moms who, while loud and pointed, peacefully object to certain aspects of school curiculum at school board meetings to be domestic terrorists worthy of FBI investigation and DOJ prosecution, although the optics of such backed them down on prosecution. Then there's the entrapment of a group of moronic knuckleheads in Michigan who called themselves a "militia" while tramping through the woods. The FBI implanted the ideas for illegal activity, insanely enough the kidnapping of Governor Whitmer and bombing a bridge to facilitate the getaway, provided the money, the means, the sources, and all the urging while ultimately probably half the group were infiltrating agents and informants. It eventually backfired and the FBI ended up with egg on the face. So I can see the group functioning as Biden's brain talking among themselves "Gun rights, militia, settlers. Gun rights, militia, settlers. Gun rights, militia, settlers..." Never underestimate the dogmatic stupidity of that bunch.
Len| 01.22.24
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Doubt if the American decision is based on lib’s anti- gun stand in the States. Either the Biden admn wants to show the PA that it believes the pali propaganda re “settler violence’, or some ultra-lib Members of the adm or some agency actually believe the pali propaganda. Or are just anti-Israel.
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Biden fails to understand that US leftist activists are not perceiving the Middle Eastern mindset … that playing defense is not how to win. Withholding guns is like what the Left does in America “gun control” which doesn’t work with the criminal mind.
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