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"In 2017, Saudi Arabia signaled interest in purchasing the F-35 fighter jet following what was described as a $110 billion arms agreement with the US earlier that same year.

That arms agreement took the form of commitments rather than actual defense deals, and it’s unclear if the Saudis purchased more than a fraction of that promised $110 billion. What is clear is that while Riyadh got its hands on plenty of munitions, it was ultimately unable to purchase any F-35 fighter jets."

Uh oh, guys. It looks like one of the lesser-known old foreign agreements by Washington is about to be highlighted at a very inconvenient moment.

Israel's "Qualitative Military Edge" (QME), as it is called in this article, finds its origins in the Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 and the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) of 1976, but also an Amendment passed in 2008.

In the 1968 Act, the US approved the sale of F-4 Phantom II fighter jets to Israel, marking a significant step in bolstering Israel's military capabilities and establishing a precedent for maintaining its qualitative edge over neighboring countries.

The AECA of 1976 governs U.S. arms exports and military assistance, requiring that US arms transfers align with US foreign policy, national security interests, and international peace and stability.

in 2008, Congress passed the Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008, which authorized the sale and transfer of excess U.S. naval vessels to foreign allies. Contained within this legislation was an Amendment to the 1976 AECA, where Israel's "Qualitative Military Edge" is explicitly established and defined, under Section 36(h). The entire Amendment can be found under 22 U.S. Code § 2776 - "Reports and certifications to Congress on military exports."

Here is how Congress defined "Qualitative Military Edge:"

"In this subsection, the term “qualitative military edge” means the ability to counter and defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damages and casualties, through the use of superior military means, possessed in sufficient quantity, including weapons, command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that in their technical characteristics are superior in capability to those of such other individual or possible coalition of states or non-state actors."

And here is how Congress established Israel's special designation:

"Any certification relating to a proposed sale or export of defense articles or defense services under this section to any country in the Middle East other than Israel shall include a determination that the sale or export of the defense articles or defense services will not adversely affect Israel’s qualitative military edge over military threats to Israel."

So as you can see, Israel absolutely has a special relationship with the US government. And that special relationship is now impeding our ability to enhance existing alliances, or even establish new ones. Not only have we hamstrung ourselves to engage in diplomacy with this QME, we have also established a de facto Unipolar World Order that requires US military presence around the entire world.

If we are serious about the Multipolar World Order-- bringing our troops home-- then we need to repeal Israel's QME and empower allies like Saudi Arabia to police their own neighborhood.

(We also need to fully expose the fact that the Israeli government has been controlling the US government ever since the assassination of President JFK-- of which it was likely involved.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-huge-saudi-arms-deal-may-be-limited-by-us-pledge-to-preserve-israels-military-edge/

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