The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassed this part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

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      5 hours ago

      See how retarded you are now you support the new Hitler(Trump) and his secret police(the gestapo)

      I do not wish anybody to be iced because i am a decent human being unlike savages like you

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        4 hours ago

        You are truly a stupid fuck and it’s best to just block your Nazi ass. By not voting you helped elect trump. Nazi. Fuck Hamas

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          4 hours ago

          How retarded can you be , again I am not american. Again you are the nazi, you are the one defending the billions sent to Israel to commit genocide. You are the want to wish that ICE kidnap me .

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            Again. Stop posting slurs. It really undermines anything that you have to say.