After meeting with President Biden on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he secured a pledge that the US would help Israel continue its bombardment of Gaza.
“We agreed on actions and deeds that ensure the continuation of our just war. We agreed on cooperation that will change the balance on all fronts, and help us to achieve the war aims,” Netanyahu said, according to The Times of Israel.
Netanyahu said the US and Israel “are working together to secure the release of the hostages by all means possible.” He also said Israel has secured a “massive, unprecedented” military aid package.
Biden has already departed Israel but made similar comments while he was there. He promised to ask Congress for an “unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense.” The New York Times recently reported Israel requested an additional $10 billion in military aid, which the White House wants to roll into a massive spending bill that also includes funds for Ukraine in Taiwan.
Also on Wednesday, Benny Gantz, a former Israeli Defense Minister who is a minister in a wartime cabinet that was formed last week, said the war in Gaza will last months. “It will take a long time. The war in the south — and if need be also in the north or anywhere else — might take months, and the rebuilding will take years,” Gantz said.
Biden delivered a speech while he was in Israel and said the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel was worse than 9/11. “Since this terrorist attack took place, we have seen it described as Israel’s 9/11. But for a nation the size of Israel, it was like 15 9/11s,” he said.
Biden urged Israel to show some caution in its response, saying, “I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it.” But the US has made clear that its support for Israel in the war is unconditional.
Holy Cow! Bye-Done! Whip out that old check book and scratch out a check for 7 Billion Bucks!!! How to win friends, does not come cheap. But I warn pro-war DEMS, WE WON’T FORGET! WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
“Your land is my land, my land is my land,. A new song by Woody Guthrie
Actually, I think it’s by Woody Herzog and the Sons of the Haganah Pioneers.
“and the rebuilding will take years” Rebuilding not for Palestinians, but for the new, wonderful pristine buildings, yards, parks for settlers. It will be so wonderful. Books will commemorate the obliteration of a people, their children, their dreams. So wonderful, for all time.
Biden tower would then be built to bring Trump Biden rivalry or more accurately Dem GOP rivalry in clear focus .Thats the best and confirmed way to harness the stupidity of America for the sake of Israeli recreational activities on the corpses of the Palestinian children.
It’s not a war… It’s a carnage…!
Biden delivered a speech while he was in Israel and said the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel was worse than 9/11. “Since this terrorist attack took place, we have seen it described as Israel’s 9/11. But for a nation the size of Israel, it was like 15 9/11s,” he said.
And how many 9/11’s will it be equal for the people in Gaza? Or for that matter, how many 9/11’s did our war on terror create for the people of Afghanistan or Iraq? The real similarity is the license to go on a killing rampage which that feeble minded walking corpse is condoning.
How many more 9/11’s are coming and if so the cycle begins again. Countless invasions of sovereign nations. The MIC’s business model is thriving like never before
Anyone hear any more about the hospital that WAS’NT bombed?
Asking for a friend.
Has anyone read the recent Seymour Hersh article? Can you give a synopsis?
Here’s the lead in to the story, behind paywall:
ISRAEL BOMBS ‘SAFE ZONES’ IN GAZA: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/10/19/israel-war-hamas-gaza-live-updates/71237079007/
At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded
when a residential building in the southern city of Khan Younis was
struck, medical personnel at Nasser Hospital said. The intensified
shelling came one day after Israel agreed to allow limited shipments of humanitarian aid into southern Gaza from Egypt.”Israeli Air Forces continued to strike southern areas despite the directive for people in #Gaza
to move south,” the UN Relief and Works Agency said. The agency said at
least 14 of its own staff had been killed and nine more wounded −
adding that the “actual number is likely to be much higher”
He is propping up the most hard right fascist leader who isn’t loved by all Israelis. The “hug” as endorsement? Obama actually spent money and sent seasoned strategists to Israel to campaign against him, so it’s interesting that Biden gives him an embrace.
US funds aided 2015 campaign to oust Netanyahu, Senate probe finds
Bipartisan inquiry determines resources that ended up in V15’s hands not illegal, but State Department chided for seeking to influence internal politics of ally
According to the report, authored by the permanent subcommittee on investigations of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the State Department gave grants totaling $349,276 to One Voice’s Israeli and Palestinian branches “to support peace negotiations” over a 14-month grant period that ended in November 2014.
After that period, the organizational infrastructure created with these funds was used by V15, a group that actively called on Israel’s to vote for “anyone but Bibi [Netanyahu]” during last year’s general election.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-funds-aided-2015-campaign-to-oust-netanyahu-senate-probe-finds/
Stupider and stupider
” ‘Since this terrorist attack took place, we have seen it described as Israel’s 9/11. But for a nation the size of Israel, it was like 15 9/11s,’ [Biden] said.”
Uh-huh…hey, US government? Israel is about 9 million, Gaza about 2 – how many 9/11’s does that make the nearly 4000 innocent Gazan civilians killed by 12 days of nonstop indiscriminate Israeli bombing…
…not counting indirect deaths caused by cutting off food, water, fuel, electricity…
…back of napkin math will do…
…what? ‘quiet, can’t i see yr counting out the 10 billion US weapons package to Israel’? gee, i’m sorry – sure I’ll wait til yr finished..
YOU made my day, good sir, you made my day!
‘war aims’ bibi? GENOCIDE/ ETHNIC CLEANSING like your doing in the west bank? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e4dcb51e33ef7bf8122b6b9bc847828892b7e9910aa490c20b1a9aca79aee966.jpg
As bidens bows before israeli Defense Minister and some other dude last year!