Only two approved foreign military sales to Israel have been made public since the start of conflict:
$106 million worth of tank ammunition and
$147.5 million of components needed to make 155 mm shells. Those sales invited public scrutiny because the Biden administration
bypassed Congress to approve the packages by invoking an emergency authority.
But in the case of the 100 other transactions, known in government-speak as Foreign Military Sales or FMS, the weapons transfers were processed without any public debate because each fell under a specific dollar amount that requires the executive branch to individually notify Congress, according to U.S. officials and lawmakers who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter.