On Friday, the Pentagon announced it had received a green light from the State Department to sell over $2 billion worth of heavy munitions to Israel.
The Trump administration announced over the weekend that it was working to speed up delivery of billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment to Israel, calling the move a reversal of the “partial arms embargo” imposed by the Biden administration.
On Saturday night, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement announcing emergency measures to expedite $4 billion in arms transfers to Israel.
Citing the Biden White House’s suspension of the sale of some aerial munitions – including MK-84 one-ton bombs – Rubio panned the previous administration’s limits on weapon transfers, collectively dubbing them an “arms embargo.”