ARMS EMBRACE

Rice holds back as U.S. rushes bombs to Israel

[From NYT, 22 July 2006] The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said.
Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran's efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah. The munitions are actually part of a multimillion-dollar arms-sale package.

Israel News Net reported the country was running low on bombs.