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May. 18, 2021
WASHINGTON – Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee will request the Biden administration to delay a $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel pending review, sources confirmed to Haaretz.
Democrats held an emergency meeting on the proposed sale, Haaretz learned, after the Washington Post reported the sale of weapons including Joint Direct Attack Munitions ( JDAM ) kits that transform bombs into precision-guided missiles and Guided Bomb Unit-39s (GBU-39), a weapon developed for penetrating fortified facilities located deep underground. The U.S. Defense Department previously sold Israel 14,500 JDAMs in a $1.8 billion arms sale in 2015.
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May. 18, 2021
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, has reversed course and will not send a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden requesting to delay a $735 million sale of precision-guided missiles to Israel pending review.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the House, told reporters that Meeks will no longer send the letter: “I think Chairman Meeks has indicated that he’s going to pursue discussions with the administration on this.”
According to sources familiar with the matter, Meeks faced significant pressure to allow the sale to continue following Monday’s emergency meeting among Democrats on the committee regarding the sale.
May 18, 2021
Democrats in the House appeared to back away from a plan to urge the Biden administration to delay a proposed $735 million arms sale to Israel amid the ongoing conflict with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
House Majority leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) will not send a letter requesting the sale’s delay after the Biden administration agreed to brief committee members on the matter, ABC News reported.
Meeks was set to request a delay that could give lawmakers time to place a hold on the sale, Vox s Alex Ward first reported yesterday.
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