The US is sending Israel tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that were designated for Ukraine, Axios reported on Thursday.
Israeli officials requested the artillery shells as they’re preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza and worried about an escalation with Hezbollah and the possibility of a northern front.
Earlier this year, the US began dipping into a weapons stockpile it has in Israel to ship more artillery shells to Ukraine. According to Axios, Israel has requested that the US replenish its stockpile of ammunition in Israel in case the Israeli military needs them on short notice. The US agreed to the request and is expected to send the 155mm shells in the coming weeks.
The US stockpile in Israel is controlled by the US military. But under the arrangement, Israel can use the ammunition in a war scenario with US approval and was granted access during the 2006 Lebanon war and 2014 Gaza war.
Israel has been using more 155mm shells since the October 7 attack as it has fired artillery into Gaza and into Lebanon during skirmishes with Hezbollah. The demand will increase significantly if Israel launches its expected ground invasion of Gaza.
The transfer of shells initially bound for Ukraine to Israel raises questions about the US military’s ability to provide weapons and ammunition for the two wars. According to the Pentagon, the US has so far provided Ukraine with over 2 million 155mm artillery shells.
When schadenfreude is a not-particularly-guilty pleasure.
AKA, Justice.
Sorry Ukraine, we’re gearing up for major war escalations and our arms supply is running a tad low. We’ll catch you on the rebound.
P.S. Israel, there could be a few snafus on such a tall order…
I’m not surprised the USA is backing a horse with overwhelming odds to win. IDF vs. Hamas is a sure thing, where Ukraine vs. Russian Federation is a hard sell to a voting public next year.
Just demonstrating the pecking order of the various lobbyists.
It sounds bad when you call them “bombs.” God forbid, we sound as bad as them Russians. But, you have to imagine that ours are full of “Freedom, Democracy, and Moral Superiority.” …You don’t get it? …It helps me when I apply the “anal”ogy of when you take a huge dump in the toilet after several days, while pretending it smells like flowers. I hope this helps.
You forgot “rules-based”.
What’s Joe trying to do? Make his BoyToy have a Big Sad???
The US is sending Israel tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that were designated for Ukraine
WTF = tens of thousand artillery shells ? WTF really how many Palestinians are there – how many buildings do they have – how many artillery shells does it take to blow up a hospital ?
oh wait, they already blew up the hospital even before these tens of thousands of artillery shells will enter the scene.
what
“Israel said it dropped 6,000 bombs on the Gaza Strip during the first six days of war with Hamas.” On 2 million Palestinians crowded in 17.37 square miles? 345 bombs per square mile? I’m bad with math, but… what
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-palestine-confilct-bombing-gaza-strip-hamas-united-states-isis-2023-10
Gaza is 141 square miles.
Here I thought they were bombing the city, not the entire strip. Israel is so nice. I feel much better. Thank you, Thomas.
was that (sarcasm) ?
I’m experimenting with being morally fluid at the risk of becoming morally bankrupt. What
what
Why do you rob banks? Because that’s where the money is. Why do you bomb a city? Because that’s where the Palestinians are.
I got feedback that I was too sarcasmic
Miasmically or orgasmically sarcasmic? Or both?
All the above.
42 bombs per square mile is a lot of destruction.
Yes, it is. And they’re not spread evenly over the whole 141 square miles. But they’re not limited to the much smaller urban core, either (they’ve apparently bombed the Rafah crossing area and avenues of approach to it).
So it’s somewhere between 42 and 345 per square mile. Neither of which is a number I particularly like to hear, it being greater than 0.
If the Rafah crossing is opened by Egypt, there will be a flood of Palestinians escaping the bombing. The problem is this: Sisi is probably not going to allow the Palestinians to integrate into Egypt’s society, but will be pushed out into the Sinai desert, to die. Israel will get the lands in Gaza, and the West Bank. The world will clap its collective hands, singing praises and a hearty Hizzah!!!!! Poor Israel is finally free!
…..and they’ll get oil and gas deposits in and near Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea
That is going to be a one way crossing. Aid can go in people cannot come out.
If aid is allowed. Palestinians will die. Be forgotten. History will paint over their plight, their 75 years of living in a concentration camp. If remembered at all, it will be that they were murderous terrorists. Even the thousands of Palestinian children murdered.
Actually Israel has always wanted to push the Palestinians into the Sinai desert. The US has been trying to bribe the Sisi to accept the plan.
Gazans could keep Gaza and expand into Sinai-water desalinization and regenerative agriculture could make the place bloom. Instead,they destroy greenhouses. Much cheaper and more humane for everybody than fighting forever
If Egypt had integrated Palestinians into their society in the first place,this mess would be much less.
If Israelis treated Palestinians with respect, none of this would have happened.
25 miles long, 5 miles wide. 2.1 million people. concentration camp. Yesterday I stumbled onto an interview Chris Hedges had with Norman Finkelstein. It is 53 minutes long. It can be found on Mint Press.
Gaza (also called the Gaza Strip) is approximately twice the size of Washington, D.C.
Obviously all those shells are for the coming war against Lebanon and Iran.
Nope. Israel will use a tactical nuke to dispatch with Iran. One ground war by Israel was a nothing burger, a photo op. The second one in 2014 cost the IDF 70 to 80 soldiers. The “rules-based” West is all to ready to kill off the Palestinians. The Cradle: https://new.thecradle.co/articles/german-dutch-troops-in-cyprus-for-possible-gaza-escalation Hizbullah, which has an estimated 100,000 rockets that can reach Israel will come into play.
“A tactical nuke” wont doit.
Great.
Finally, someone found all the evidence.
Like Israel doesn’t have enough already with all the billions in tax dollars coerced from American’s income for their ‘defence’.
I think somebody should be going to prison.
This is nuts, how many fighters are the Israelis facing? The Ukrainians are facing the friggin Russian army a several orders of magnitude larger problem.
True Russia has a commanding force on the ground, close to .75M in and around Ukraine but it’s yet to go on the offensive. What’s proved several orders of magnitude Ukraine’s larger problem is Russia’s indomitable defense industry that defeated the west’s sanctions & export controls to expand production to pre-war levels and has been daily pounding Ukraine with 30K missile strikes when at best Ukraine can manage 7K.
So when this administration keeps saying it can manage 2 wars remember our defense industry won’t be able to match Russia’s monthly 155mm shell production for 2 years. (If then.)
Joe can end that war. Joe stopped negotiations to end that war. Presidents since Clinton are responsible for that war. Joe doesn’t want to end the war. He sure looks cool in his aviator glasses.
Hurry up, Putin. Finally, your chance to take Kyiv in 3 days without losing another quarter million troops.
Go ahead, De-nazify it, de-militarize it, and anything else that starts with de- …
Although i think you went full retard and accidentally de-putinized Ukraine 🤷🏽♂️
Lol
My gosh Don, you have to Russify everything?
I do. Because US and the West aren’t the only belligerents.
The U.S. and the West are the worst. The absolute worst.
Great, so let’s condone everybody’s brutal actions because the west is the worst.
Got it.
Israel’s long war on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report
Israel has unleashed a horrific war of collective punishment against the people of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian oppression. As corporate media shamelessly provides cover for what is undoubtedly a genocide unfolding in real time, the need to ground our understanding of the conflict in its proper history is more important than ever. Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel’s 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks.
Norman Finkelstein in a Hero!
I have watched the interview 10 times. When he suggested that Israel might use a tactical nuke on Iran, I thought, “oh sh*t”.
This. From The Cradle: https://new.thecradle.co/articles/german-dutch-troops-in-cyprus-for-possible-gaza-escalation
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Biden bringing the US to war.
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It’s worse than the axis of evil speech that led to 20 years of
wasteful, inconclusive war. This time it will be different. The war will
destroy Israel and spread to the United States.
Many thanks for the post.
Israel wants Gaza empty, and the West Bank as well, in part because of oil. Any peace settlement, even one that includes Palestinian sovereignty, is bound to include the revenue from the oil fields off Gaza from which Israel is the sole benefactor. Gaza’s oil fields are 17-21 nautical miles offshore, but Israel has allowed the Palestinians nominal control out to only 20 miles. Since the Palestinians have no navy with which to guard their claim- laid out in the torpedoed Oslo II Accords- Israel has effectively taken the site over and dealt directly with (you guessed it!) the British Gas Group, completely cutting Palestine out of the loop. That Israel has no intention of sharing that revenue with Palestine- ever- comes as no surprise.
Israel also controls the Meged oil field; the drilling field is located west of the 1948 line, but the reservoirs lay mostly east of the 1967 Green Line, under Palestine. As Israel does not allow any drilling equipment into Palestine, the Palestinians are denied access to their natural resources. (If you recall, Iraq’s claims that Kuwait was drilling into Iraqi lands to get at their oil was one of the reasons for Hussein launching an invasion into Kuwait in 1990. That the US supported Kuwait unconditionally instead of actually investigating the claims is telling. That the US refuses to even address Israel’s drilling program is telling as well. ‘Rights for me but not for thee.’)
Even when the news is full of reports of racism and apartheid toward the Palestinians, pulling back the curtain reveals part of what it’s ALWAYS about- control of oil and natural resources.