Recent media reports have said there are discussions within the Biden administration to condition military aid to Israel if it invades Rafah as a way to reduce civilian casualties. The assumption was that the US could threaten to cut off or reduce its weapons supply to Israel, but according to a report from ABC News, the US might do the opposite.
The report cited US officials who said the US hasn’t made a decision on leveraging military aid and that “it’s possible additional aid — not less — would be offered as an incentive” to reduce civilian casualties.
The US officials made the comments in response to a senior Israeli official complaining that US weapons shipments weren’t coming fast enough. The official said that in the wake of October 7, US arms “were coming very fast,” but “we are now finding that it’s very slow.”
US officials denied there was any intentional slowdown in weapons shipments to Israel. When asked about the Israeli claim, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US was continuing to supply Israel with arms.
“I’m not gonna get into the timeline for every individual system that’s being provided,” Kirby said. “We continue to support Israel with their self-defense needs. That’s not going to change, and we have been very, very direct about that.”
The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid, and the Biden administration has approved over 100 arms deals since October 7 to support the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The US is looking to give Israel another $14 billion as part of a $95 billion foreign military aid bill that’s passed through the Senate but has yet to be voted on in the House.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in Gaza since Israel unleashed its onslaught stands at 31,645 Palestinians. About 70% of the casualties are women and children. The Health Ministry’s numbers are considered a low estimate since they don’t account for the thousands who are missing and presumed to be dead under the rubble.
What the actual F.
Well we all know who’s actually getting F’d 🙂
A wonderful arrangement for the U.S Israeli Genocide logistics! The U.S. provides the means & the Israelis deliver them. Its is those U.S. made and provided 2000 & 5000 pound bombs that have killed the majority of the women and children who are their & sad to say our targets. Bad as the Israelis are being, it’s difficult to believe they have somehow compelled our ( leader) now AKA Genocide Joe to provide
“Material Support” & sadly moral support 2 this slaughter of innocents,
genocide….!!!!!!!!! May God forgive America in this hour of it’s evil.
The ICJ’s 16.Feb statement regarding the IDF-Likud Gov‘t ignoring provisional measures ( ie stop killing people ) ordered by the 26.January is striking.
The ICJ has effectively determined genocide is being committed.
That’s huge.
Sorry sports fans aid will not come in time to save Palestine. Israel is going to winn this round but will wind up losing bigly shortly I hope.
It doesn’t look as Israel is winning anything.
Hopefully you are right.
Plausibly. Which is just a tiny step away from saying it. Norman Finkelstein made that point during his “debate” with two morons.
But it changes nothing.
The ICJ finding is enough for 3rd countries to apply some beefy sanctions
S. Africa has come a long way, a state with an impressive government. People with brains and character.
Minister Naledi Pandor is a great lady. She is of outstanding character and has an educated heart and mind.
There are also more than 50 additional governments signed on to the genocide lawsuit.
Note Nicaragua is also sueing England, Holland, and Germany for genocide at the ICJ
If there were a God even he or she would not be so obtuse as to allow this. It just means that Israel and Biden are more powerful then a God no one can see.
Biden is more like an Israeli Zionist vassal, the power flows from Tel Aviv and AIPAC. Trump would not be an improvement.
If or when Trump wins our society and culture will fragment and descend into chaos and violence PDQ. The rule of law will mean even less then it does now.
Putin had three opponents, he belongs to no party and the other 3 are members of the parties in the Duma, he won with more than 80%. Maybe Biden will not recognize the election and will not gratulate Putin. Maybe Biden does not know Putin’s election is good for 6 years, if Biden gets elected he would have to put up with Putin for his entire term. Normally for Americans that requires a regime change which Biden wanted since before he became president. Putin is 71 years old and he will be the longest serving Russian head of state for 2 centuries. Biden would be the oldest American president in US history.
Definition of a split second: The time lapse between “US Considering Giving Israel More Military Aid” and “US Sending Israel Billions of Dollars in Additional Military Aid”.
And a few boxes of aid dropped on the heads of Palestinians, or shipped to Cyprus (where the Zionists will keep there for weeks “inspecting” the wares) before a paltry amount gets to the temporary “dock” (years ago, Israel destroyed the port, along with the airport). I hope Mr. Biden enjoyed his corned beef and cabbage yesterday.
“passed through the Senate but has yet to be voted on in the House”
It means the majority of American political elite is supporting the policy of genocide. We are lucky that Unipolar World never became the reality. Thanks to Putin and to Chinese communist party.
Very astute. Let’s hope advancing democracies can contain US totalitarian genocide of freedom loving people.
US have still a way to go before they reach the totalitarianism but last quarter of century they were progressing quite fast in that direction. Let’s see if Trump can turn the train around.
Huh? Have you been paying attention?
Modern totalitarianism uses brainwashing Stalin and Hitler could not imagine.
Trump stands for centralization of wealth at any cost to the environment, He’s also into squelching brown people who feed him.
Technologies are developing in every field, also the technology of brainwashing.
Please show me a true democracy.
I refer to Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil and many others as advancing democracies. Searching for answers from the intelligence of people is advancing democracy.
The US, Europe, Japan and Israel are failed or failing democracies. Voting every few years is failed democracy.
We should separate two things: democracy as a political system of a country and democratic approach for solving the problems of the humankind.
The logic of the rulers of The West is such: people of those countries which they proclaim as undemocratic have no rights at all. So it is okay to ignore their interests. Such an approach can easy develop in racism. It is enough to proclaim a country as undemocratic and it’s people as uncapable of democracy for starting to treat them as subhumans. So the rhetoric about democracy became a tool of western oligarchy which helps them to legalize any crimes against other people.
Hhmmm, will Israel receive more Swag? Will the Pentagon? Who knows?
Who is the US? Where is the US? When was the US?
You have just asked three Existential questions that need answers badly.
He really used the term self-defense to describe this senseless slaughter…
“Self-defense my ass” went thru my mind when I was read Kirby’s statement.
“The US officials made the comments in response to a senior Israeli official complaining that US weapons shipments weren’t coming fast enough.”
They’re complaining that they can’t kill people faster. Hurry up. They need more bombs and death machines. Fckin scum.
Twisted reasoning and logic.
Deranged sadistic people have no reasoning and logic, they can only hate.
Sure it makes sense – we send them more of the weapons they use to kill Palestinians, because they will then have the incentive to kill them less. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…
Yeah, well we were supposed to be “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” and look how that turned out 🙂
It turned out they meant “Die the people”.
I don’t believe they think enough of the American people to care if we die 🙂
I don’t believe they mean just the American people.
Don’t understand?
It’s simple. It’s the same logic as “genocide is self-defense”.
Another day closer to plausible Genocide becoming an actual finding of Genocide.
Now I have to admit that’s damn creative, who would have ever thought Genocide could be a money laundering scheme. American Exceptionalism hard at work.
Genocide, a money making angle for capitalists. Something new, I guess.
The US officials made the comments in response to a senior Israeli official complaining that US weapons shipments weren’t coming fast enough. The official said that in the wake of October 7, US arms “were coming very fast,” but “we are now finding that it’s very slow.”
But, but you are an independent nation, not a banana republic, as Netanyahu said. So why all the anguish? I would think an independent nation could manage on their own. Fucking parasite.
If Hell actually existed there would be a special place for Netanyahu and Biden.
Hitler is reserving seats at head of his table in hell for them.
Truly best quote of the day!
Quite a dinner table. Charlies Manson, Jeffrey Daumer, Hitler, Bibi, Biden, Stalin, Mao, and a host of others.
Great list, add Pol Pot. Wonder what would be their dinner table talk?
Mint ice cream with chocolate chips won’t last long in the flames of hell.
Nope they are headed for the Tojo section! Better seafood there.
Hitler will order the seafood, no problem.
Independent parasites
Time is not on your side… USA. Get on the Peace Train.
Sorry Donna,the US ruling class values arms sales and use much more then peace and prosperity. By now we all should know this. Our survival is at stake and the Masters of Mankind don’t give a shit.
True wisdom Wendell, truly!
You couldn’t make this shit up if you try…!
It was “made up” long ago, the Torah. And Kirby et al are joining the Mitzvah dance, … chanting “Kill the Amalekites, all the Amalek, … women, children, … sheep and goats.
No, you can’t. Kirby should book himself to a SNL skit. “Self defense needs” against an opponent that does not have a navy, air force, army, or a sugar daddy like the U.S. Ben-Gurion said that their objectives in 1947-48 could not be met unless a powerful country (aka the U.S.) could back them up.
Some self-defense bombing unarmed civilians, more than 60% women and children, including pregnant women and infants and toddlers. Some heroes the IDF and the PILOTS are.
If I am not mistaken the Nuernberg Tribunal declared that executing illegal orders is a war crime.
David Ben-Gurion’s characterizations of the Zionists as underdogs in ’47-’48 were outright lies. He knew that, so soon after the Holocaust, the image of Jews as victims was a powerful one in the eyes of the world.
In reality, Zionist forces were larger in number, better-trained and better-armed than the Arab League volunteers who eventually (sort of) joined the fight and vastly more powerful than the mostly-defenseless Palestinians they subjected to savage ethnic cleansing. That ethnic cleansing, by the way, began even before UNGA 181 passed and months before the Arab League volunteers arrived.
The Zionists didn’t actually have American military support during the Nakba. To the extent that they received heavy weapons, the main suppliers were in the Soviet bloc, especially Czechoslovakia.
“In reality, Zionist forces were larger in number, better-trained and better-armed than the Arab League volunteers who eventually (sort of) joined the fight and vastly more powerful than the mostly-defenseless Palestinians they subjected to savage ethnic cleansing.”
What about the five Arab armies that invaded, at least one of them British-officered, after the British left all key strategic points in Arab hands as they withdrew at the end of the mandate? Were the the Zionist forces larger in number, better-trained, and better armed than those troops?
“Five Arab armies” didn’t invade. A feeble Arab League force of volunteers kinda-sorta invaded, not the national armies of those Arab states. Yes, the Zionists were better trained and armed. About half of them had previously served with UK forces.
The only Arab military that came close to being a peer adversary for the Zionists was Transjordan’s “Arab Legion.” (That was the overwhelmingly British-officered Arab force.). It didn’t participate because King Abdullah and the Zionists worked a deal that kept it on the sidelines in exchange for “leaving” the West Bank for Transjordan. Also, it’s not even close to true that “the British left all key strategic points in Arab hands as they withdrew at the end of the mandate.”
Bibliographic references available upon request.
Not Considering… rather already decided…?! Just in case, they want to invade southern Lebanon…!
I do believe you have amazing forsight.
Biden can avoid US law by sending smaller shipments, but Congress can change that. It is not hidden. It is done, wink and a nod, by those complicit in vast crimes.
The Biden administration’s deranged Zionists are controlled by the deranged Zionists in Tel Aviv. Psychopath people without a conscience, war criminals of the worst kind.
Wise words and deeds and truly you should write something for us, here on antiwar Lysis, absolutely!
Thank you for the compliment.
Mr. Biden can concentrate on just one war at a time. It is my firm belief that he wants to help Bibi get the Zionist/IDF one over quickly, so he can then concentrate (maybe) on Ukraine, and oh, his campaign. He is a busy man. Oh so busy. Morality, humanity have no room in his paltry, banal mind.
He must be dying of envy, Putin was re-elected with more than 80% of the votes.
As he could be if he had all of his plausible opponents barred from the ballot, thrown in prison, or pushed out of windows.
Putin had three opponents and was elected with more than 80% of the high voter turnout. Russians have a one direct candidate vote system, every vote counts, no electoral winner take all college, every individual vote counts.
But of course we know the election was not fair and legal.
Again, if what you say is true not just allegations, you know of credible evidence?
Do you know our elected Zelensky in Ukraine did all you posted and canceled the election anyway?
Have you ever seen me assert that Zelenskyy’s gang is any better than Putin’s? No, you haven’t, because I’ve never done so.
The main difference between Russian elections and American elections is that the Russians don’t keep a straight face when pretending that they’re actual elections.
There are credible international election observers. So far there are no reports questioning the election. The results are supported by pre-election polling by western companies.
Your allegations are just that. We do know that Zelensky eliminated his opposition and has cancelled elections, you do know that, it has been reported. You also know that Navalny was groomed to replace Putin, right? You know that Biden wants regime change, he said Putin has to go, remember? Austin said Russia must be weakened. The big question never factually answered is WHY? Other than campaign talk Biden’s brain is a graveyard.
You also know well, the USA does regime change any time a government is not serving American interests, that is any government left of center elected or not. The CIA is a well trained assassasination organization, helicopter crashes are the favored tool to execute the killings. Regime change in Venezuela failed, so now the US sanctions Venezuela because the people elected Maduro, his election had to be illegal too. What else is new? The USA has become a PARIAH state.
You refusing to acknowledge reports questioning the “election” is not the same thing as there being no reports questioning the “election.”
Yes, I do know well that the “elections” in Ukraine and the US are just as questionable, although the methods of keeping particular regimes in power vary from regime to regime.
Personally, I suspect that Putin would have won a REAL election against plausible opponents. But he wasn’t willing to risk that.
Putin had three opponents just FYI. A 4th opponent could not get enough signatures to make it on the ballot, the runner up is a Communist party member. Putin is independent.
How do you know he had no opponent? Do you have any reputable information of any reports from any outside observer questioning the election?
It is Putin and you simply suspect that he did not risk to have plausible opponents, and you state “he wasn’t willing to risk that.” as if it is a fact.
By all accounts:
PUTIN WON A REAL ELECTION AGAINST “3” OPPONENTS.
The runner up is a member of the Communist Party.
Yes, he graciously allowed three token opponents to “run against” him, just so long as they didn’t publicly criticize him or his policies, so that he could pretend to have an “election.” Anyone credible was already dead or in jail, and anyone publicly opposed to his Ukraine fiasco was disqualified.
Thomas, with all due respect how do you know all this?
Our elections are phony window dressing, our so-called democracy is dying on the vine, big donors and their lobbyists pick the candidates we may vote for. Corporate lobbyists influence and write the laws for domestic and foreign policies. Even now, we have no idea who is really in charge in the WH, State Department or DOD, who is responsible for what in DC? We have a demented president and look at the so-called press secretaries. When was the last time Biden had a real press conference? He has yet to deliver a speech that is not a campaign speech. Our government is a disgrace, they are filling their pockets and that is it. All they know how to do is to destroy other nations, turn them into failed states like Iraq, Libya, and all the Latin American colonies. Neither Biden nor Trump have any coherent policy to where they want to lead the nation other than slogans like Make America Great Again or some similar BS. That is it human sexuality is the big national issue, think about that. Would you say Biden or Trump are leaders?
You keep telling me stuff I already know and have been saying for decades, as if that somehow changes Putin’s nature. I “know all this” because I pay attention to the facts instead of just making up stories about how my teen idol pinup is soooooooooooo much sexier than the others.
Why do you care about Putin, what is it to you how the Russians run their country, and how many vote for him, they don’t care about our mess, they could not care less about Biden or Trump, why should they?
Why does their election bother you?
I could ask you the same questions, except for the last one (his “election” doesn’t bother me at all).
The basic answer is that I don’t particularly care about him any more, or any less, than I care about his fellow terror kingpins Zelenskyy, Biden, Netanyahu, etc. I just don’t pretend that he’s any different than they are.
Putin is different, from all we know he is our enemy. We also know that our politicians are liars and will demonize any opponent. But, rational common sense governing requires honest information including enemies. When a president calls another president names that should raise a red flag. Biden is a warmonger, he wants more wars, I judge him by his actions, he is a proven liar, not just little white lies. And all that is true for the people of his administration, and all the others you listed, add the Europeans to your list. WE are governed by criminal elements.
Yes, Putin is different … in your imagination.
In the real world, he’s just another thug among many.
That is your imagination talking, wishful thinking. The USA has become a pariah nation for most people in the world. Biden is not well liked by other heads of state, so-called allies, he is a bully and they hate to be bullied. Take a look at the UN and how many nations support the US veto. The UN is in pieces, powerless to functions. The rapporteur’s reports are still credible but not the powerless leadership, kiss the UN good by, another American success.
You keep saying true things about other politicians regimes, as if those true things say something about the politician you like.
The existence of a bunch of bad guys doesn’t magically make the bad guy you like into a good guy.
I voted for Biden, now I despise him. I did not know much about him, now I judge him by his time in office. He failed, he is an evil man who only cares about getting his ice cream cone.
Who’s Ukraine fiasco are you talking about? Biden wants a regime change and a weak Russia, that much he and Austin did say. Putin is president for another 6 years, and Biden IF he wins in Nov. has to deal with Putin losing is not so nice either. Putin wins either way.
I never said you did, what you do is to lower Putin , an outstanding statesman and his very competent team, down on Zelensky’s level. Zelensky is a clown who sold his nation, he is a traitor of the Ukrainian people and the country, he is real scum. A generation of young men has been wiped out, the country is in ruins and he filled his bank accounts and acquired some mansions.
Like it or not, the Russian election was clean and proper, with a big turnout and Putin, well deserved, won handily.
Yes, I know that when it comes to Putin, you’re like one of those fans who screams and chases him down the street claiming you will love him forever.
But I’m not “lowering” him. He’s right there down in the sewer with Zelenskyy, Biden, et al., all under his own power and on the basis of his own actions. He’s murdering Russians and Ukrainians alike, all so that his oligarch masters will let him keep his position for a little while longer instead of having him pushed out a window and replacing him.
Putin and his people put Russia back on its feet, they rebuild Russia. Russians are proud again. He governed and made Russia Great Again. Without slogans, no noise, they got to work and rebuild their nation,
they simply just did it.
His mind is also senile and drooling. How did we get so lucky?
Lots more Arabs to help slaughter, right Mr President?
Iran is next before the big one with China.
Most likely there will be no NATO left to support a war with Iran. US going to war against China and possibly Russia is about as idiotic as one can imagine, but the Zionist neocons in Washington are crazy enough.
Most if not all the countries are tired of US wars… I don’t believe Iran neighbors would allow or support a new war with Iran…!
The Zionist neocons are crazy enough to provoke a war with China.
What kind of weapons do they need? Don’t they have enough bombs, not enough tanks or bulldozers to roll over people, or bullets for the snipers? Denying food, water, shelter, and medical supplies don’t require more weapons, it is the cheapest genocide imaginable. The victims don’t get counted as casualties either.
Of course they are. Any notion that Biden would cut off or restrict arms to Israel is delusional, even to save his own skin in the election. I’ll repeat what I said here earlier: They CAN NOT and DO NOT WANT TO stop the genocide. People need to stop talking like that’s possible. It’s not.
Dear Garbling Genocide Joe:
Hi there, it’s me #EndNATO just checking in. Hope you’re doing well, I know you’re going through a rough patch, what with the polls, the Uncommitted vote, Trump and of course that annoying Genocide case SA filed against Israel.
🎵[Chorus]
Let me tell you time tough (Time tough)
Everything is out of sight, it’s so hard (So hard)
So hard (So hard)
Time tough (Time tough)
Everything is going higher and higher (Higher and higher)🎵
I love Toots don’t you? Reggae always cheers me up.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you to keep looking on the bright side.
At least it’s Germany not the US that will be in the Hague April 8-9 defending itself against Nicaragua’s ICJ charges of violating international law by providing “political, financial and military support to Israel …. In particular, the military equipment provided by Germany enabling Israel to perpetrate genocidal acts and other atrocities…”
🎵Can’t blame the minister
And you can’t blame the preacher
And you can’t blame your brother
And you cannot blame your sister
Can’t blame your friends
‘Cause today is the judgement day
And that’s why everyone have to pray
🎵[Chorus]
Let me tell you time tough (Time tough)
Everything is out of sight, it’s so hard (So hard)
So hard (So hard)
Time tough (Time tough)
Everything is going higher and higher (Higher and higher)🎵
Peace & Love, #EndNATO
Nicaragua can make a great case against Germany, it is against their laws to sell weapons to nations at war. Scholz and his ample coalition need to be whacked over the head hard maybe that would wake him up, the pipeline sabotage sure did not do it, a declaration of war by the USA, an ally.
I do believe that Ukraine will end NATO and the EU. The Biden Zionists destroyed the German vassal’s economy and with it the EU.
OMG WTF did you just do?
you just made a song ….
oh for God’s sake i am going to find you
and i am going to get you.
and guess what?
there is something the matter with something.
“considering” really? will you actually put your minds to the act of considering?
i’m going to guess no.
what
A cunning plan. Give the mass murderer more ammo. That will surely result in him shooting less people!