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In December, the Biden administration blocked a shipment of M4 rifles to Israel. The rifles were meant to be used by local community self-defense units of the kind that had served as the front line of defense against the Hamas attack on Oct 7. However the Biden administration claimed that it was concerned that the self-defense units might be Jewish “right-wing extremists”.
The Islamic terrorists attacking them however had no trouble finding M4 rifles. They just expected theirs to come by a more complicated road from Afghanistan, by way of Iran’s terror operatives, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan via a drug smuggling route, and then inside Israel.
The M4 rifles were part of a package that included grenade launchers, anti-tank missiles, anti-tank landmines, RPGs, C4 and Semtex explosives, and hand grenades.
A number of those were clearly American weapons including the M4s and the M203 grenade launchers: both in use in Afghanistan. The Alma Center, founded by IDF Lt Col (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, believes that the M4s are likely “spoils from Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan.”
If U.S. weapons from Afghanistan made their way to Islamic terrorists in Israel, it would not be the first time. Islamic terrorists in Gaza had been previously spotted with M4 and M16 rifles, including during the Oct 7 attacks. Rep. James Comer had dispatched a letter after the Hamas attacks to the Department of Defense asking it to explain the M4A1 Carbines, which were “specially designed for U.S. Special Operations Forces” in the hands of the terrorists.
“The surprise terror attacks by Hamas into Israel were made possible, in part, because of U.S. arms left behind in Afghanistan by the Biden administration,” Larry Keane, the Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, wrote at the Firearm Industry Trade Association.
The weapons package now intercepted by Israel shows how Iran may have tapped into the weapons left behind in Afghanistan. The weapons shipment appears to be a ‘sandwich’ with Iran moving American weapons to the Islamic terrorists backed by the Biden administration.
While the weapons were being smuggled by Iran through its IRGC terror arm, the key player was Munir Makdah, a top figure in the Fatah movement which controls the PLO and the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority is a major recipient of American foreign aid and the Biden administration has been pressuring Israel to put its terrorists in charge of Gaza.
Even as the Biden administration was demanding that Israel allow Fatah terrorists to run Gaza, a top Fatah leader was recruiting terrorists to attack Israel. The anti-tank weapons, mines and RPGs suggest that the goal was a significant assault on Israel in order to open a second front in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, to relieve the pressure on Hamas in Gaza. .
Munir Makdah serves as a deputy commander of Fatah in the Ein al-Hilweh terrorist settlement in Lebanon. Misleadingly described by the UN as a refugee camp, it’s actually a major city of over 100,000 which various Islamic terrorist groups have been fighting over since at least the 1980s. While Ein al-Hilweh is often described in the media as a “Palestinian refugee camp”, large numbers of Syrian Islamists fled there after losing their civil war, and have been fighting with Fatah for control of the city using heavy weaponry including rockets.
The weapons were intended for the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Fatah terrorist arm, sanctioned by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization for its numerous bloody attacks.
Even as Al Aqsa has gone on murdering Israelis, Marwan Barghouti, its founder, in prison for his involvement in multiple murders, including that of a Greek monk, has been promoted as a future president of the Palestinian Authority.
The New York Times ran an op-ed by Barghouti while failing to identify him as a terrorist. The Washington Post recently claimed that the Biden administration had “raised the treatment of Marwan Barghouti” with Israel. The International Red Cross, which has failed to visit any of the Jewish and non-Jewish hostages held by Hamas, has been clamoring to visit him.
“The Biden administration should make it very clear to the Netanyahu government that if Barghouti is harmed or killed in prison, it would throw gas on a raging fire,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, notorious for his promotion of Iranian agendas, warned.
While the Biden administration and Iran Lobby adjacent figures like Van Hollen were lobbying for Barghouti, the terrorist’s men appeared to be preparing to unleash a major attack on Israel.
And who was behind the attack? Iran.
Apart from being a top Fatah terrorist, Munir Makdah has also been identified as an operative with Iran’s Hezbollah terrorist movement in Lebanon and the IRGC. After consolidating its control over Hamas and Al Qaeda, Iran is gaining a deeper foothold in the Palestinian Authority.
And the Palestinian Authority is a terrorist operation subsidized by American taxpayers.
The weapons, including the M4 rifles, had come by way of Iran’s terror operatives, including those in Syria, who would have been in a position to move them through Jordan into Israel.
Captagon, the amphetamine used by the Hamas terrorists on Oct 7, is manufactured under the protection of the Assad family, an Iranian client, smuggled out of Syria and into Jordan, where it’s then trafficked to Iran’s enemies in Saudi Arabia, but also into Muslim areas in Israel.
Iran’s global drug smuggling empire provides wealth, but it’s also used by the terror regime to piggyback terror operatives and weapons like those that were meant for the Fatah terrorists.
Opiates and weapons from Afghanistan make their way to Iran, and from there to Iraq, Syria, Yemen and to Gaza and now even the West Bank. In 2022, Israel had detected a significant increase in both drugs and weapons being smuggled into the country. This was likely part of the prep for the Oct 7 attacks which employed both drugs and weapons.
Iran’s drug network is also a terror network and the terrorists are also its clients. Gaza has an estimated 150,000 drug addicts from a population of only a few million.
After Biden turned over Afghanistan to the Taliban, along with its drug trafficking operation, Iran boosted a pipeline of weapons and drugs that are used to bind its allies and attack its enemies.
Weapons left behind in Afghanistan have made their way into Israel. But this time they were intended for the Palestinian Authority terrorists backed by the Biden administration.
While the terrorists want the M4s left behind in Afghanistan, Israel is pivoting away from the rifles denied to it by the Biden administration and shifting over to local manufacturing. After the Biden administration began moving arms from Israel to Ukraine, and then began cutting off weapons to stop Israel from finishing off Hamas, the Israeli government is going local.
Under Biden, Islamic terrorists can still count on American weapons, Israelis however can’t.
Excellent, Daniel!
Superb Expose, given these facts, and in the light of Bidens efforts to divide and destabalise Israels Government, Bidens determined work to turn the international community against Israel, …. It is absolutly astonishing that any self respecting American Jew can continue to vote or support Bidens Anti Israel Administration.
The Biden Administration is Corrupt, Hypocritical, and Decietfull, No one who loves Israel, or America should ever vote for him ever again.
OK, I’m sticking my neck way out here. I think, in my sleepless nights, that China is behind alot more than meets the eye. I’m beginning to think that China has been playing a shrewd game of international chess since it hacked the 2020 election, putting Biden in charge. China exerts more influence over the corrupt Biden admin than is immediately evident. The Afganistan disaster was calculated to make American arms available to whomever China found useful. The power behind the Oct 8 attack was not Hamas, as it appears, but Iran, backed by China. Our border disaster is entirely on Biden’s shoulders, backed by China. It’s always troubled me that Israel’s border was so porous on Oct 7, and its counterattack has become so controversial as to alienate Israel. Things like that don’t just happen. I’ll grant that I cannot substantiate any of this, but call it the paranoid musings of an insomniac, who hopes he’s wrong.
Just one thing: the widespread opposition to Israel is not due to Israel’s actions. It is a preexisting long term condition. Specific charges are excuses.
And Israel has long represented a strong (and to some troublesome) American presence in the Middle East.
It’s not surprising but it’s shocking nonetheless. What a difference a change in WH resident makes!
It should not make that big a difference. Our representatives no longer restrain the other branches and certainly do not represent the interest of the American people. Our culture (and politics) now tolerate what would have been intolerable and career-ending just a few decades ago.
Christian principles once permeated out government, culture, schools and laws. Unless the LORD sends a renewal of His Spirit – a revival – we are headed to certain destruction.
Christian principles don’t apply to pagans, corporatists or nihilists. The Surrender Monkey Party (R) does nothing in the face of Constitutional violations, the weaponization of federal agencies, or the preservation of our dollar. Even when in the majority they are ineffective at holding back Democrat hegemony. They appear to be career-minded placeholders seeking to insulate themselves from the carnage they helped create. It will be up to individual states to preserve the Republic.
True. But we can refrain from electing them to office and enact laws that do not favor or empower them to spread their evil influence.
Every Sunday I go to church and pray for the nation. Our prayers (1928 Book of Common Prayer) assume our representatives are Christian and we ask God to give them His wisdom in carrying out their responsibilities.
This isn’t the Islamofascists only source of US weapons. The US State Department has been funding, arming and training PLO terrorists for over 2 decades. List week a uniformed major in the PA police used his US issued automatic rifle to attempt to shoot up an Israeli school bus.
If one might allow oneself to seemingly ridiculously entertain the possibility that EVERY Obama Biden policy objective is to obliterate Israel (and America) mightn’t one logically surmise that America’s coincidentally ‘abandoning’ billions of dollars of the US’s best advanced weaponry in Afghanistan just happened to occur around the time the October 7th massacre against Israel was in its initial planning stages?
Mightn’t one also reflect upon this abandonment of a tremendous amount of war materiel as being strangely similar in intent to Britain’s strategy of leaving all its Mandate weaponry with/for the Arabs in 1947 that was used against the Jews in the ensuing war for Israel’s independence?
And after reading this article, mustn’t one realize that drugs are part of the arsenal of Jihad? One drug for the infidels, another for the Jihadis?
Fentanyl murders Americans, thousands and thousands of American victims of terror, not victims of overdosing, but victims of the terror war that is already underway in America.
Then there’s this Captagon that juices up already barbaric murderers to experience ecstasy as they massacre.
You are, sadly, not being paranoid.
Leaving that stunning amount of high-quality weapons in Afghanistan was so inept and dysfunctional, it appeared almost purposive, even at the time.
It only appered “lmost purposeful” to those that are too naive to be able to believe we had a raitourous government running tht show, and the one tthis side the Puddle as well.
I KNEW that was carefully planned and timed… but did not have a clear enough view of enough facts and connexions at the time to figure out the rest of the picture. Now we’ve had some time for that picture to “develop” things are beginning to be a whole lot more sharp and clear..
A birthday gift to Xi? Makes me wonder if Biden has a sprawling estate in the Chinese countryside for when the truth comes out.
British forces also participated directly against Israel in 1948, but dialed that down due to a defeat.
The naivety of western government has been visible for decades, they thought paying Afghans to grow onions rather than opium would work.
Probably a UN ngo.
Biden’s just the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t he?
Yup, just like Obama, he’s allied himself with our enemies.
brothers from different mothers.
You misspelled grifting
So when we pulled outta Afghanistan Biden told the moo slims……”Hey we will leave all these weapons and then when you all attack Israel you can use them to fight Israel”.
Israel should dump its loose military alliance with United States and instead, invite top Russian and Chinese military personnel to Israel. In exchange for weapon deals, Israel will give access to the Russians and Chinese all the information Israel knows regarding the U.S. military in the Middle East. The United States has betrayed Israel, so Israel needs to betray United States because Israel can’t be used as a political plaything by American political parties. Israel needs to look after its nation and the safety of its citizens, it can’t rely on arms deals with America that might be canceled due to political games. I’m sure Russia and China would sign arm deals with Israel that won’t risk the chance of cancellation because of domestic political pressure. The time has come for Israel to dump United States and turn its value of being an intelligence asset in the region to serve the purposes of Russia and China. In doing so, Israel will be assured of ironclad arms deals along without the interference of Western foreign interventionists telling Jews where they can and can’t live on their biblical homeland.
This poses an interesting problem. Isn’t there already a significant Chinese presence in the Islamic world? China has been playing for Middle East oil for some time. We don’t know for sure, but China appears to be getting light on resources. They are buying farmland in North America and Africa, making overtures to Islamic countries and other African nations for resources (particularly rare earths). We know they have had terrible pollution issues, both air and water, for some time. I don’t think they give a fig about any Jewish homeland, other than that Israel represents a strong American presence in the Middle East.
You tell me, Israel no longer becomes a client state of United States but rather offers China all its knowledge on America’s military movements in the Middle East and divulges all its information on American weapon systems – you think Israel would not be rewarded? You think China wouldn’t offer Israel unbreakable arms deals in exchange for all this information?
Israel owes United States no allegiances, especially in the context of how the Biden administration has suddenly become so fickle. Because you know after all the Democrats just want to buy votes for 2024. If they’re willing to economically destroy United States with an open borders policy in order to give mass amnesty, creating millions of instant citizens (that would vote Democrat), then the Democrats wouldn’t even think twice for throwing Israel under the bus to satisfy the Muslim vote.
Put yourself in the position of the Israeli government, what would you do? If your nation’s very survival is on the line, do you risk the lives of your citizens on your relationship with United States? Or would you make your nation more valuable to Russia and China, in order to guarantee future weapons deals? Personally, in order to guarantee weapon sales that could mean the difference to the very survival of Israel, I wouldn’t gamble on United States.
all these fantasies of a deal with Russia or China are just that… fantasies
Russia is deep in bed with Islam on multiple levels. It has its longtime allies who want to destroy Israel.
China is building trade connections, but unlike Russia, has no deep roots. It has no real allies and is constantly changing its objectives due to its permanent internal instability.
When it comes to the Middle East, Russia and China will always side with Arab Muslims and continue the longstanding approach of leveraging Arab Muslim countries to join their campaign to harm the United States and the Western world
and that includes Israel
Before Russia and China, it was Germany doing the same thing.
The only thing getting in bed with Russia or China will lead to is betrayal.
I would seem Israel are making a good decision to make their on at home. Tht way they are neither dependent upon nor beholden to anyone else.
That would not work for Israel.
So basically you’re saying Israel should keep the status quo, knowing that when its nation is under attack, America can turn Indian Giver and just renege on its legal arms deal contracts? Kind of like after the 6 day war, France decided to cut off Israel from being supplied spare parts for the Mirage fighters it bought.
What the U.S. and France seem to not understand is that the IDF used weapons of war as they were designed, which is to kill the enemy! So nations that sell weapons of war to Israel are OK with it, just as long as these weapons aren’t used to defend Israel. That seems kind of schizophrenic, don’t you think?
That’s why I feel Israel should turn into an asset for Russia and China in exchange for gaining weapon deals where these nations won’t cancel such contracts in the future due to political games. I’m sorry that most people might not agree with me but I’m being practical.
Please tell me how Israel benefits from signing weapons contracts with United States, where the Biden administration has already canceled them in order to satisfy the Muslim voters? Please tell me how Israel benefits from its relationship with the United States, when the Biden administration openly wants to overturn Israel’s current government? Look how well the Obama administration’s 2014 Ukraine coup worked out, it led to a civil war with separatists in the eastern provinces followed by Putin annexing Crimea. America then doubled down years later, telegraphing its intention to offer NATO membership to Ukraine, which led to the second invasion by Russia in 2022.
I don’t know but it seems to me based on America’s current interventionist policies, Israel would be much better off dumping its relationship with United States rather than keep the status quo.
The Russians may have killed more Jews during WW2 than anyone else. Israel needs to be independent of all foreign influence, as much as possible.
The Jews were on the verge of getting slaughtered & sent to gulags, but the impending campaign wasn’t carried out only because Stalin died of a stroke. (He had set the stage for it via propaganda.)
The stroke that claimed Stalin saved untold numbers of Jewish lives.
The only thing getting into bed with Russia and China will accomplish is being handed over to Iran and Islamic terror states at an even faster pace than under Biden
A deal with China or Russia would mean the end of Israel in a few short years. Both would like nothing more than the ME to be free of the only Western-type democracy.
FOUR DECADES of dealing with Iran and the Mullahs, their funding proxies, and the main cause of the World’s problems, and yet…. everyone is afraid to get to root of those problems because the World doesn’t want to get them mad for fear they’ll shut off their Oil Pumps!
The World is continuous being set on fire due to them.
JOHN MCCAIN: “Bomb! Bomb! Bomb… Bomb Bomb Iran!”
THE PEOPLE OF IRAN WILL SUPPORT THAT!
IF THEY BUY, make, or are given nukes, they will use them which means a WORLD WAR FOUGHT WITH NUKES!
TIME TO END THIS MADNESS!
Another destructive gift from Prez BiDUNG (twice as crappy as BO Stinkus Maximus—our first America-hating president). FJB, his traitorous regime, and all his filthy supporters!
Coupled with freeing up $billions, maybe 80 or so, to give to Iran who then funds terrorist training and operations, makes one wonder whose side Biden is really, actually on.
But when one then recalls Robert Gates’ (former Obama Sec of Def) description of his stance on almost every major policy for over 4-decades, it becomes crystal clear.
The fool is close to being an actual moron with nearly zero ability to ponder consequence.
Here’s Cabbage Brain Biden talking about the weapons in Afghanistan that he gave to his pals in the taliban, without background checks I might add.
All according to plan….Obama’s Plan!
Joe Biden must be really be a stooge . tool and useful idiot of that tyrant/President Rasis , the President of Islamic Iran regime everything he demands including an additional billions of dollars so that he can supply in many insidious and underhanded way jihad organizations which are really nothing more than “murder machines” as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Biden already has the blood of many incident people on his wicked hands and in the future will the blood and yet murder innocent people on this evil hands.
Biden and Rasis ,when it comes down to it are murderous monsters .
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
When applying that wise statement to Joe Biden, his “measure” is more than lacking, it’s outright terrible with his appeasement policy towards that hostile and aggressive tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
As seen by his giving in to the arrogant demands of the aggressive and hostile anti-American , anti-Israel Islamic regime of Iran giving those in power in that vicious tyranny everything they want, including funds and deadly weapons to, in a very insidious and underhanded ways, jihad terror murder entities as Hamas.
Joe Biden is the stooge and tool as well as useful idiot of Rasis, who know how to manipulate him to acquiesce to all of his demands to further financial support, that Islamic tyranny and its hostile agenda ,part of which is that support and found murderous jihad entities, as Hamas, with deadly weapons
For Pseudo “President” Biden greatly favors that hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran which hates with a malice-filled passion the Jewish state of Israel and the United States.
So much so that it refers to Israel and”The Little Satan America as “The Great Satan” and one of its main themes, which in repeats so often is “Death to the USA.”
This reveals that “President” Biden is either very feeble minded and incompetent or on the other hand, he’s an outright treacherous treasonous villain.
That fiendish President of Iran ,Raisi of that hostile Islamic regime of Iran is using his power in a very insidious underhanded way to supply deadly weapons to those malicious and murderous jihadists of Hamas as well as other dangerous and deadly jihad terror/murder entities.
Joe Biden had supports Iran and he even has the lying gall to publicly declared and claimed, “Islam is a non-violent religion” In other words he said that “Islam is not a religion of violence.”
It’s now a rather appropriate time to bring out the fact that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on those who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
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For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1] If Khomeini was still alive today he would spit on Joe Biden.
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Why is this not the prime issue for impeachment?