WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime will demand a special budget for its development of new laser weapons and raise concerns about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions when U.S. President Joe Biden visits occupied Palestine next month, a report unveils.
When Biden visits the Israeli-occupied al-Quds next month, he will not only be met with a new face as the regime’s prime minister but also with “a request for a special budget” to help the regime complete its development of laser weapons to intercept retaliatory rockets and drones and work in parallel to its increasingly ineffective anti-air batteries such as the so-called Iron Dome, U.S.-based military news outlet Breaking Defense has revealed.
Citing what is referred to as “the visit plan” shared by Zionist military sources, the report said Biden is due to “stop by” an Israeli air force base, where two Zionist weapons makers, Rafael and Elbit Systems, will display the prototypes of laser systems being developed for the interception of rockets and drones but need “more money to complete the development.”
The report further noted that the U.S. annually provides the occupying regime with $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF), “including $500 million for cooperative programs for missile system.”
The new funding request “is aimed at adding funds to that portion of the FMF pool,” the report pointed out, citing the regime’s military sources as adding that the regime “will ask for around $300 million in extra funds.”
According to the report, the occupying regime has long been seeking the additional U.S. funding for its laser capabilities, which “are not tied directly into a recently-announced regional air defense network, although it is possible that if such a system is made operational, it would be exported down the line.”
The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas has censured Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Middle East, with a trip to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, stating that the trip is meant to suffocate the Palestinian cause.
“The main purpose of Biden’s Middle East trip next month is to obliterate the Palestinian cause, and expand the influence of the Zionist regime,” Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Gaza-based movement Hamas, said.
He called for greater unity among all ranks of the resistance front in order to prevent any potential infiltration attempt by the Zionists in the region, and end the presence of the occupying regime in the region.
Haniyeh also strongly opposed any attempt to bring the occupying regime into military coalitions in the region.
The Hamas leader warned that impending dangers are much more serious than what is thought, demanding the formation of a more unified front against the regime.
He added that the potential dangers facing the occupied Palestinian lands and Al-Quds, the Zionist regime’s plans against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of al-Quds, settlements expansion projects and Judaization of Al-Quds, the brutal siege of Gaza and the sufferings of Palestinians living in the 1948 occupied territories are among the major plights.