A report from Bloomberg published on Tuesday detailed some of the weapons the US has shipped to Israel to support its onslaught in Gaza.
The Pentagon has refused to detail the arms it has been providing Israel since October 7. The only weapons shipments that have been publicized were interceptors for the Iron Dome air defense system and small-diameter bombs.
According to the Bloomberg report, other weapons the US has been delivering include Hellfire missiles and 30mm ammunitions for Apache helicopters, M141 shoulder-fired bunker-busting bombs, 155mm artillery shells, army vehicles, and night vision equipment.
NBC News reported last month that the US sent cluster bombs, which are notorious for killing civilians. The report said the US provided dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) cluster bombs, which have a 155mm variant, although there have been no reports of Israel using cluster munitions in Gaza.
A Pentagon spokesman declined to discuss details with Bloomberg about the weapons shipments but said the US was “leveraging several avenues — from internal stocks to US industry channels – to ensure Israel has the means to defend itself.”
The spokesman added that the “security assistance continues to arrive on a near-daily basis.” It’s unclear where the funds for the daily weapons deliveries are coming from as Congress has yet to authorize the additional $14 billion for Israel that President Biden is seeking.
The military support for Israel comes with no conditions or limits despite the brutality of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, which even the White House acknowledged has killed “many, many thousands of innocent people.”
NO MORE MONEY FOR ISRAEL! Not another dime. NO MORE WEAPONS!
Sorry Donna NFC= No Fucking Chance.
Wouldn’t that be nice.
Would you support all foreign aid?
I would support cutting off all foreign aid. But U.S. influence won’t last a week.
The US is sending 155mm cluster rounds for artillery because they gave all their standard 155 shells to the Ukraine months ago. Some of what he US is sending was previously ‘borrowed’ from ammunition stockpiles slated for Israel but given to the Ukraine instead.
Hard to believe Israel urgently needs more bombs and weapons for genociding civilians, but okay. It’s not like our moral compass is going to be damaged, especially since we have none. In fact, my “moral superiority” is resilient and permanently attached to my “exceptionalism” to the point that it needs no moral compass–none whatsoever.
I’ve decided that when it comes to federal elections, the only Republicans I will ever vote for are ones who deny the 2020 election results and the only Democrats I will ever vote for are ones who insist that America was founded on slavery. I don’t agree with either of those positions (maybe a little for both due to CIA meddling and preservation of slaveowner “rights” enshrined in the constitution, respectively), but that doesn’t matter.
What matters is that both those positions are questioning the legitimacy of the national government, and electing people who do that will push the scales in the right direction. It may not happen in our lifetime, but, God willing, one day the union will shatter.
To my mind voting in tge US is esentially useless until money gets taken out of politics and Citizens United is overturned as well as the regulation of lobbying.The chances of these two pipe dreams ever coming to pass in oligarchic America with this SCOTUS give us no hope for the future.
What is wrong with American democracy?
A huge majority of two-thirds of Americans are for a ceasefire in Gaza, but Congress and the White House are nearly unanimous in being against a ceasefire, only wink..wink.., for a “pause“ in the killing at will.
Could there be some corruption somewhere?
Do the zionists really need bunker-busting bombs and 155mm artillery shells to kill children?
They will need them to dig out Hezbolla.h
Look at the map of Gaza, carefully, and tell me how Hezbollah fighters could enter this open air prison.
I could predict that besides Iran and possibly North Korea any leftist democratic government in South America is on their shit list.Death to Muslims,Africans and Latinos.No cabe duda.
“Leftist” and “democratic” tend to mutually exclusive.
That is because a great majority of Republicans have fascist tendencies running in their blood. I must admit some alleged Democratic Congress people fit that bill.
Doesn’t any other “coalition” country manufacture weaponry?
No matter how much arms US sends, Israel has already lost the war…!
How has Israel already lost the war?