{"id":4670,"date":"2023-12-09T18:34:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:35:59","slug":"us-govt-uses-emergency-authority-to-provide-tank-shells-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"US GOVT USES EMERGENCY AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE TANK SHELLS TO ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4670\" class=\"elementor elementor-4670\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-38f4adc7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"38f4adc7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43cb1bcc\" data-id=\"43cb1bcc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76f604e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"76f604e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h5><strong>To view popup window put your cursor on the <font color=\"blue\">blue words<\/font><\/h5><\/strong><p><\/p>\n<div><strong>ISRAEL IN THE LAST DAYS<\/div>\n<div><blockquote>\"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.\n<span> \u2014 Genesis 12:3<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n<div><blockquote>\"<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> Fear  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STRONG\u2019S 3372: <\/font> yare\u02be, yaw-ray\u00b4; a primitive root; to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten:\u2014affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), x see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).<\/span><\/div> not: for I am with thee: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;\u201d\n<span> \u2014 Isaiah 43:5-6<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n<div><blockquote>\"O Israel,\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> trust  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STRONG\u2019S 982: <\/font>batach, baw-takh\u00b4; a primitive root; properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as 2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure:\u2014be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.<\/span><\/div> thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.\u201d\n\n<span> \u2014 Psalms 115:9<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76efcfe3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76efcfe3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c80fac0\" data-id=\"c80fac0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-796d7731 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"796d7731\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Article Source: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-777349\">Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Biden administration\u00a0has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review, the Pentagon said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The State Department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth $106.5 million for immediate delivery to Israel, the Pentagon said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The shells are part of a bigger sale that was first reported by Reuters on Friday that the Biden administration is asking the US Congress to approve. The larger package is worth more than $500 million and comprises of 45,000 shells for Israel\u2019s Merkava tanks, regularly deployed in its\u00a0offensive in Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the war intensified, how and where exactly the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/arab-israeli-conflict\/gaza-news\/article-777282\">US weapons<\/a>\u00a0are used in the conflict has come under more scrutiny, even though US officials say there are no plans to put conditions on military aid to Israel or to consider withholding some of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:image --><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\" US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday (credit: SAUL LOEB\/REUTERS)\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_537,w_822\/567018\" alt=\" US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday (credit: SAUL LOEB\/REUTERS)\" \/><\/strong>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday (credit: SAUL LOEB\/REUTERS)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rights advocates expressed concern over the sale, saying it doesn&#8217;t align with Washington&#8217;s effort to press Israel to minimize civilian casualties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Within the interests of the United States<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined and provided detailed justification to Congress that the tank shells must immediately be provided to Israel in the national security interests of the United States, according to the Pentagon statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The sale will be from US Army inventory and consist of 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank Multi-Purpose with Tracer (MPAT) tank cartridges and related equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Israel will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defense,&#8221; the Pentagon said, adding that there will be no adverse impact on US defense readiness as a result of the sale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<h5><font color=\"#0000FF\"><strong> The sale will be from US Army inventory and consist of 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank Multi-Purpose with Tracer (MPAT) tank cartridges and related equipment.<\/font><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}