US Grants Israel Emergency Access to Billion Dollar US Weapons Cache

by | Jul 31, 2014

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Just hours after the Israeli government killed scores of Palestinians shopping at a marketplace and sheltering from the relentless attack on Gaza in a UN school, the US government gave the green light for Israel to access the “War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I),” a one billion dollar US cache of weapons maintained on Israeli soil.

This US gift would allow the Israeli regime to replenish the 120mm mortar rounds and 40mm grenades of the type used to commit the attack on the civilian population of Gaza.

Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby reiterated the US rationale for its support for this current assault on Gaza, citing:

Israel’s right to defend itself. …Unlike Hamas, which is firing rockets from populated areas and indiscriminately targeting civilians in Israel, the IDF [Israeli army] takes measures to limit civilian casualties.

However, according to the UN, nearly 80 percent of Palestinians killed in this recent Israeli attack on Gaza have been civilians.

The US Senate, meanwhile, has added another quarter of a billion US dollars in military aid to Israel in an unrelated US border control bill.

The one-sided, pro-Israel resolution in the House yesterday, highlighted on RPI, passed unanimously by a voice vote.

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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