Infographic: JINSA in Action – Revealing Slowed and Stopped U.S. Arms Transfers to Israel

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on April 4, forced Senate votes on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) to block a U.S. sale of roughly $8.8 billion worth of vital munitions to Israel. While the Senate voted it down, Senator Sanders’s measures—as well as JRDs put forth by other Senators—are stark signals of a small, but growing, political movement in the United States to prevent Israel from maintaining full military readiness to protect its citizens.

Continuing its decadeslong efforts to strengthen the U.S.-Israel security relationship, but with a renewed sense of urgency following Hamas’s barbaric act of war on October 7, 2023, JINSA has worked to ensure the United States expeditiously provides Israel the vital munitions needed to win an unprecedented, multi-front war against Iran and its terror proxies.

JINSA’s actions to ensure Israel’s full, rapid rearmament since Hamas’s October 7 massacre include providing congressional offices with expert analysis on weapons platforms to directly impact U.S. arms transfers and inspiring congressional letters by legislators urging presidential action; briefing senior U.S. officials on key technical details related to weapons procurement, production, and transfers; issuing letters signed by 100+ senior U.S. military generals and admirals calling for Washington to rapidly provide Israel with crucial munitions to defend itself; authoring opinion pieces published in leading news outlets with exclusive information about held-up weapons; and publishing detailed reports and infographics overviewing the status of weapons sales.

JINSA’s extensive efforts to push through weapons explicitly held-up, deliberately slow-walked, or moving at a glacial pace through government bureaucracy have produced tangible results. While the United States should further expedite its delivery of weapons to Israel, the State Department’s March 1, 2025, emergency authorization to accelerate weapons to Israel was a crucial measure materially enhancing both countries’ readiness and deterrence against shared enemies. JINSA experts advocated for such a move publicly in an op-ed just five days before the State Department’s announcement, as well as privately in repeated briefings to Trump administration officials before and after the presidential transition.

Below is a timeline overviewing JINSA’s activities and impact on U.S. arms transfers to Israel in its time of need.

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