Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say
Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons, ammo to Israel, congressional aides say
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer on hold earlier in the month.
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold this month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Are these motherfuckers TRYING to lose the election and thus democracy to a fascist conman?! 🤦
Yes they are. They rather want Trump to win, than to end a genocide. And people are gaslighting themselves happily to suck up to the Dems instead of saying: "We will vote for you, but only, when you end this genocide and bring justice and peace to the people."
And the Reps are having a blast over it, because they know that the DNCs are their buddies in exploiting the normal Americans and murdering people outside the US.
And people are gaslighting themselves happily to suck up to the Dems instead of saying: “We will vote for you, but only, when you end this genocide and bring justice and peace to the people.”
Not just that, but they're twisting themselves into knots to try and convince people that unconditionally supporting Biden is the better option than continuing to pressure him to stop this and calling out his terrible stance here. Sure, everyone can vote as they please come election day, but we're a touch under 6 months out and people are all over this site browbeating anyone who doesn't toe the line and going "Don't you dare criticize our savior, Biden! If you say he needs to stop enabling Israel's genocide, you're just a Russian disinformation agent trying to keep people from voting so that fascists take over and murder all the minorities in the US. They'll probably double murder Palestinians, even!"
Ok, so vote for the guy who will literally make all of this worse. You won’t have to worry about a genocide in another part of the world because there would be some starting up right at home.
Trump's the best thing to happen to Biden. He has a blank check to do whatever he likes, knowing full well the only response is "Trump will be worse"
Biden's the best thing to happen to Trump. Trump's going to win.
Yeah, he'd never had become president in the first place if not for a horrible alternative.
Now that he's been for a few years of him mostly being the same conservative he was as a senator, it's even more obvious that there's going to be many times more votes AGAINST Trump than FOR Biden.
I just hope he doesn't alienate so many people with his steadfast support of, even participation in, the genocide bring peroetrated by a fascist apartheid regime that he actually loses the second most winnable presidential election in US history (the most easily winnable being 2020) to someone who's objectively much worse for the country and thus the world..
They only want your loyalty.
And by that, you mean obedience.
Lol, go ahead and vote for Trump. If you think what's going on now is "genocide", just wait and see...
What part of correctly identifying him as a fascist conman did you think looked like an endorsement? 🤦
And yes, Israel is by the official definition committing genocide.
Read the room.
meanwhile in the US, the government can't seem to find the money for continued funding of the ACP, a program providing internet and mobile services to the poorest people in the country, in a world where connectivity is pretty crucial to functioning in society
Austerity programs in the US have nothing to do with saving the government money. It's literally the goal to make life worse for working Americans, this making them more subservient to employers.
fuck this goddam fucking system thats going to force me to vote for this old cunt
Also fuck this system that makes us pay for this with our taxes.
So. do you think Netanyahu pinched his nose or something. you know. while biden was sucking his dick off? "withhold weapons, are you...?"
it'd be nice if one of the most powerful men in the world actually had a fucking spine.
I know that it's beside the point, but just FYI: in most cases, pinching the nose of someone blowing you does nothing since the vast majority (all?) of humans can't breathe in through their nose while their mouth is full and vigorously sucking.
All it does is expose you as an ignorant jerk 🤷
They have the spine to laugh at all the peasants below them, i think it's someone else lacking spine
Biden withhold and still withholding bombs. I am actually not sure if it is wise decision in terms of civilian casualties - I am not sure where more civilians will die - with precision bombing and ground attack or just ground attack (supported by tanks and artillery).
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be revealed since the administration put another arms transfer, consisting of 3,500 bombs of up to 2,000 pounds each, on hold this month.
With bombs that size, they want the casualties.
Yes because we really need to give them something…. It’s awfully unfair otherwise…
"precision bombing" You toss 2,000 pounds of explosive onto an area. That has a lethal radius of about 380m, or a lethal area of 0.45km². Rafah has 1.5 million people sheltered in an area of 64km² So 23,400 people / km²
So each of that bomb puts on average 10,500 people at risk of death or serious injury.
This is not to excuse sending other weapons. Anyone who still sends weapons or any form of military equipment or money to Israel now is willfully complicit in war crimes, massacres and genocide.
Jesus tapdancing christ he just can’t fucking help scoring an own-goal. What the actual fuck.
I’ve been trying to be as magnanimous and politically pragmatic as I can, but this is straight up idiotic. Come the fuck on, Biden. You are going to throw the whole fucking election if you keep this up.
When you think he might finally be correcting course, he just immediately goes and undoes it.
What a shocker. God, I wish I could afford to leave this country so that my tax dollars weren't funneled directly to this genocide.
I am shocked Biden went back on his word so quickly...
/s
Weekly Biden gaslighting complete, quick ship some $700m in tank shells they ran out shooting at tent camps in Rafah!
The package disclosed Tuesday includes about $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, the congressional aides said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an arms transfer that has not yet been made public.
So that's 1.36 Billion.
What's an extra $360m between friends and war criminals?
Tents are Hamas.
We should start recognizing this genocide as an Israel and the USA one, not only Israel's.
The people do, what makes it so much worse and really shows the monstrousness of the USA is that there was a palestinian teenager making music about his family amd life in an open air prison, occupied territory troubles and the like and he got picked up by a US music label and is there making music now. The US enabled his country to fall to shit only to then profit off his art he makes talking about how awful his life is amd how many cousins he has lost to Israeli aggresion.
Pure microcosm but it is heartbreaking what the US gets away with.
Ben-Gvir: It’s time for a true solution to Gaza.
Biden:
Fucking loser
Feed me Seymour
God damn it'd be great if we could stop supporting the fascist religious shitheads in charge of Israel.
Another step closer to getting an orange criminal as president from 2025 to 2029. What an absurd joke. Don't make the majority feel like their voice isn't being heard for too long, it's never a good idea to do that.
More like 2025 to indefinitely. Say goodbye to the 2-term limit if the tangerine becomes president.
Nah. There's no way the orange man would get more than 4 years. If he tried, we would see a nation wide shut down, the riots would be beyond anything we've ever seen in this country. The people with money know they wouldn't make more money trying that, so it won't happen. Biden is already helping them enough.
He will become president, but he's too stupid to override the term limit.
I really hate doing this but where is that "protests work" guy?
I'm, like, not against you but everytime you celebrate when a politician does their lip service gag I lose more respect for you.
Usually I say something bad about Biden. How about I try to defend him this time? He can't help himself. It's kind of like a tick. Some of us are alcoholics while others need to complete a genocide in order to start an end of world event... None of us are perfect.
Biden doesn't want to win this election.
Do you get it yet? We have to move on past Biden if we don't want Trump.
Move where? If not Biden, then Trump this election.
In semi convinced the way forward would be to remove biden from office on January 1st after voting him in. Deny Trump and then tell the dems absolutely not try fucking harder.
He can pass along his delegates at the convention.
Still time to switch it up.
I hate warmongering amerikkka
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.
The White House has come under criticism from both sides of the political spectrum in the U.S. over its military support for Israel’s now seven-month war against Hamas in Gaza.
Some of President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats have pushed him to limit transfers of offensive weapons to Israel to pressure the U.S. ally to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.
Following Biden’s move to put a pause on bomb shipments last week, Republicans have been swift in their condemnation, arguing it represents the abandonment of the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East.
But House Democrats are somewhat divided on the issue, and roughly two dozen have signed onto a letter to the Biden administration saying they were “deeply concerned about the message” sent by pausing the bomb shipment.
In addition to the written veto threat, the White House has been in touch with various lawmakers and congressional aides about the legislation, according to an administration official.
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Biden loyalists still believe they are the good guys. I am pretty sure, when Julius Caesar marched into Gaul, that the Roman army thought of themselves as bad guys... We know where Biden supporters stand. Did the Nazis believe they were the bad guys? Government psy-ops a success on a huge segment of the population.
Got it, voting trump instead. He'll stop the genocide.
I'm so very confused by this situation. For those who are against supporting Israel. Can you explain to me rationally why you think Hamas doesn't deserve to be wiped out after Oct 7th? I'm not denying the civilian casualties I agree it is unacceptably high But that doesn't caragotize what's happening as a genocide. But Hamas has said they want a high casualty rate they are using their civilians as human shields. Would you really suggest Hamas should just be able to get away with Oct 7th because they are hiding behind their people. Like what is your answer if you were the one making the choice here? Please I know this is an inflammatory topic but I promise I'm only trying to understand your opinion on the matter.
Can you explain to me rationally why you think Hamas doesn’t deserve to be wiped out after Oct 7th?
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You want me to explain why a foreign government shouldn't be "wiped out" for a war crime?
By that logic, why shouldn't Israel's government be "wiped out" for the attacks on civilians leading up to it?
Or at least for their actions after it where they killed 10x more civilians and destroyed billions in infrastructure?
And that's not even getting into how Israels government draws no distinction from someone who lives and Gaza and belongs to Hamas.
Your logic just doesn't seem to be consistent, and you're focusing on the one time Hamas did anything comparable to how Israel has treated Palestinian civilians over 70 years...
Yes I want you to explain how the extreme brutality of what Hamas soldiers did on Oct 7th compares to Israel relating. Have you watched the videos? I'm not denying the treatment of Palestine citizens by Israel but that does not give Hamas the right to do what they did on Oct 7th. Again watch the videos Hamas themselves recorded during the attack. They killed those people because their religion told them to. Hamas themselves said they will keep doing it again and again. I understand the death toll is high. But again what would you rather do? I'm just trying to understand your logic. I don't know how to wage war but I can take an educated guess that it's pretty difficult to tell the difference between a Gaza citizen and a Hamas solders as they don't wear any kind of uniform and purposely hide amongst civilians. I'm not defending killing civilians in asking what your alternative strategy would be. Or how you think Israel and us should respond. Because zero response is an unacceptable answer.
I think Ben-Gvir's latest comments about a "true solution" put to bed any debate about whether it's a genocide.
There is no point in trying to understand the situation. This is the usual pointless American foreign policy.
I dont even disagree with you. A depressing fact.
