{"id":148928,"date":"2023-10-23T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148928"},"modified":"2023-10-22T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T20:08:26","slug":"defense-system-considered-for-guam-to-be-leased-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148928","title":{"rendered":"Defense system considered for Guam to be leased to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/me08-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-148854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/me08-1-223x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/me08-1-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/me08-1-247x333.png 247w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/me08-1.png 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US has two Iron Dome missile defense systems that it purchased from Israel. These systems were being tested for use to defend Guam against Chinese missiles. These systems will instead be leased to Israel, so ownership will remain in US hands. The US also intends to replenish the interceptors for the Iron Dome as further aid to Israel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Reuters:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; The Pentagon plans to send the two Iron Dome missile defense systems it had previously purchased from Israel back to that country to defend itself against inbound missiles, a U.S. official and a congressional aide said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense told members of Congress at a briefing on Wednesday it planned to lease the Iron Dome systems back to Israel, the U.S. official and the congressional aide told Reuters. In this type of a financial arrangement, the ownership remains with the buyer.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer back to Israel could come within days, the congressional aide said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon had been considering and testing the systems as a way to defend the territory of Guam from Chinese missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Monday said it expected to fulfill additional security requests from Israel as quickly as possible. Biden promised replenishment of interceptors used by Israel&#8217;s Iron Dome missile defense system as well as ammunition in addition to redoubling the U.S. military presence in the region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-send-two-iron-dome-systems-back-israel-sources-2023-10-19\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has two Iron Dome missile defense systems that it purchased from Israel. These systems &hellip; <a title=\"Defense system considered for Guam to be leased to Israel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148928\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defense system considered for Guam to be leased to Israel<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,387,466,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-international-affairs","category-israel","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}