Debate in the US Congress over funding to upgrade the Iron Dome system
According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, the temporary removal of US $ 1 billion in aid to the Zionist regime’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system has angered American Republicans.
According to the newspaper “New York PostThe removal of the aid from the interim government funding bill came after some Democratic lawmakers, including members of the so-called “Squad,” including Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Occasio Cortez and Rashida Talib, voted in favor. They will not give.
A senior Democratic official has said that the financing of the Iron Dome will probably be approved in the coming months, but the Zionist regime sees it as an emergency and wants to receive it as soon as possible.
The leader of the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives, Stanny Haier, in contact with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, while announcing his support for the Iron Dome budget, said that he would once again present the bill in the court and it is expected to be approved. .
Republicans in the House of Representatives and the US Senate, meanwhile, have expressed outrage at the decision, accusing Democrats of treason against the Zionist regime.
“President [جو] “The United States is back,” Biden told our ally. “But since then he has left the Americans and allies in Afghanistan, weakened ties with France, and now his party has disappointed Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East.”
“While the Democrats have given in to the anti-Semitic influence of their radical members, the Republicans will always stand by Israel,” said Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader in the US House of Representatives.
Republican Rep. Michael McCowell also wrote in a statement that the move “shocked” Democrats in Congress.
Other Republicans in Congress, without mentioning the crimes of the Zionist regime in the recent twelve-day war between the Palestinian resistance groups and the regime, claimed that this assistance is necessary for the Zionist defense capability.
Temporary removal of aid to the Iron Dome system from the government’s budget law comes as Biden, speaking at the UN General Assembly, said his government was committed to strengthening ties with allies, especially the Zionist regime.
Just hours before the vote on the budget bill in the US House of Representatives, some members of Congress said they would not vote on it if the budget included the issue of emergency assistance to the Iron Dome system.
Following this opposition, this part of the budget law has been removed and will be examined in the defense budget law, which will be put to a vote in a few months.
The removal of the Iron Dome from US budget law means a significant delay in the transfer of additional aid to Israel. It is a rare occurrence in which the US Congress does not agree to help Israel for so-called defense purposes.
The move comes as the Israeli army recently put the Iron Dome systems around the Gaza Strip on high alert for possible Palestinian resistance rocket attacks, following the arrest of two remaining six prisoners escaped from the Jalboua high-security prison. .
In late June of this year, the regime’s media, such as the Zionist network Kahn, reported that after the visit of Tel Aviv War Minister Benny Gantz to Washington and a meeting with Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin, the United States had allocated funds to supply missile stockpiles of the Iron Dome system. have given.
The United States’s I24 network reported that the United States was working to restore the Iron Dome missile reserves to its former status, noting that the cost of the budget allocation plan for the Iron Dome missile reserves would be approximately one billion shekels. The 12-day war with the Gaza Strip has officially been budgeted
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