A report from The Washington Post revealed that the Biden administration approved a $735 million arms sale to Israel. Congress was officially notified of the sale on May 5th, less than one week before Israel began its latest bombing campaign in Gaza, which, so far, has taken the lives of over 200 Palestinians, including over 60 children.
A congressional aide told The Hill that the bulk of the $735 million deal is for Boeing-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions, which can convert unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions.
US arms sales and military aid to Israel are nothing new, but the bombing campaign in Gaza is drawing more attention to this deal. There’s no chance Congress would move to block the sale, but some House Democrats are raising questions about leveraging such sales.
In light of the news, Rep. Ilhan Omar released a statement condemning the planned sale. “It would be appalling for the Biden Administration to go through with $735 million in precision-guided weaponry to Netanyahu without any strings attached in the wake of escalating violence and attacks on civilians. If this goes through this will be seen as a green light for continued escalation and will undercut any attempts at brokering a ceasefire,” Omar said.
While Omar is taking a strong stance against the sale, and other Democrats are voicing their concern, the view represents a super-minority in Congress, as most US lawmakers staunchly support Israel. Progressives have called for the US to leverage military aid to Israel, and legislation has been introduced that would require more oversight concerning assistance to Israel, but these efforts have little support.
The Biden administration appears to have little interest in pressuring Israel to stop bombing Gaza. Within the past week, the US has blocked three UN Security Council statements calling for a de-escalation.
Good things we’re the good guys eh Pogo? Pogo? We are right? We wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t the christian thing to do? Huh? Giving waepons, approval to slaughter human beings in an Open Air Prison without even the sea to escape to…i’m an atheist but this is about as evil as it gets. So many layers of crimes on top of horrible acts and deeds…
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More behind the scenes arm twisting, no doubt..
It is not whom is whom doing what to who? But who is who and who they are doing it to is the RULE OF LAW?
This makes the US (Biden personally) complicit in the current Israeli war crimes.
I know there will be no prosecution, but there should be. They are criminals even if they escape justice.
And you resist shitlibs thought Biden was more decent compared to Trump!! 😆😆😆😆
I never thought he was more decent, but I do think he is slightly more sane than Trump.
Biden is easily worse than Trump cause he’s been involved with far more horrific policy outcomes over the last 50 years. It wasn’t Trump who helped the Bush regime get into Iraq. It wasn’t Trump that got involved in Libya or Ukraine. It was Joe Biden.
Same guy, different wig.