The Obama Administration has tackled reform of our national export control system with much gusto. Our trade security system includes a series of laws and regulations that, among other things, controls what sensitive technology and services can be sold or shared with foreigners. Also included under this system are economic sanctions, customs rules, and others. [...]
A group of U.S. Christian groups has reportedly sent a letter to various Members of Congress requesting that they investigate alleged violations by Israel of the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. According to the Jerusalem Post, the letter says, in part:
“… unconditional US military assistance to Israel [...]
The President’s Middle East speech at the State Department yesterday was the same old song. And while the media and beltway punditocracy tries to massage it, his comments on the 1967 borders were over the line.My response yesterday posted at the POLITICO sums it up:
The president and his national security team have it [...]
Over at the Legal Insurrection blog, Cornell School of Law Professor Jacobson penned an item that reminds us all of the lunacy that is the United Nations Human Rights Council:
Yemen government forces have cracked down leading to many deaths. Iran routinely decimates opposition protesters. So what is the U.N. Human Rights Council going to do [...]
Seems like our cousins across the pond are having a slight case of buyer’s remorse over weapon sales to North African and Middle East governments. Some of this we can attribute to Europe’s anti-gun obsession. If they ascribed to our view that people kill, not weapons, maybe they would not worry so much about these [...]
Congress is in recess until after the November elections. Possible CFIUS review in the offing a’la Dubai Ports? Uranium One USA officials told the media recently that it would be “highly unlikely” that a proposed buy out by a Russian company — an entity that may be linked to proliferation activities — would [...]
Zimbabwean governors with chauffer-driven government issue Mercedes Benz E280s complain that U.S. and E.U. sanctions make travel time in the country difficult. Guess sanctions are working. Clif Burns at the Export Law Blog pens how the U.S. Government has imposed export controls on those “naughty” airport screening machines. Housekeeping note, DDTC should [...]
In a bizarre but an increasingly all too common approach in the new Washington of “change,” the U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, suggested this week that the U.S. should consider using economic sanctions to force Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians. Our best ally in the region bullied, while we coddle [...]
A former leader of the terrorist group Tamil Tigers claims the group was making efforts to acquire nuclear weapons technology from the West.
On the heals of likely Congressional approval of a $7.5 billion foreign assistance package to Pakistan, Islamabad officials “categorically rejected” accusations by unnamed U.S. officials published in the [...]
The U.K. Committees on Arms Export Controls took a somewhat quixotic swipe at Israel “following confirmation by the UK Government that Israeli weapons systems, used in the Gaza conflict, almost certainly contained British-built components.” Israel is defending herself against terrorists and the Labor Party keeps using export control law to make value judgments about what [...]
Generally speaking export control laws are targeted, in part, to make it harder for bad people to gain access to advanced technology and weapons. They should not be used as foreign or humanitarian policy cudgels. It is a distraction and devolution. A recent report by the U.K. House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee [...]
For some time now the anti-Israel lobby in Washington, DC has been trying to use provisions from the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA), and other national security and foreign affairs laws as bludgeons to force reductions in U.S. foreign and military assistance to Israel. They allege that Israel has violated [...]
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