The $1.2 trillion government funding package that President Biden signed into law on Saturday includes $3.8 billion in annual military aid for Israel and also cut funding for the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, as Gaza is on the brink of famine.
The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid each year under a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Obama administration. The $3.8 billion is divided into two categories: $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF), which provides foreign governments with money to purchase US arms, and $500 million to fund Israeli missile defense systems.
The pro-Israel American lobby group AIPAC celebrated the signing of the funding bill and noted that the military aid for Israel is still unconditional. “Congress just passed, and President Biden signed into law, $3.3 billion in vital security assistance for Israel, without added political conditions,” AIPAC wrote on X. “This lifesaving support will help keep our ally safe and ensure Israel has the resources it needs to protect its families.”
The US continues to provide Israel with unconditional military aid despite the massive civilian casualties in Gaza and Israel’s restrictions on aid, which has caused severe levels of food insecurity among the Strip’s entire population.
In contrast, the US immediately suspended funding to UNRWA after Israel claimed without evidence that 12 of its employees participated in the October 7 attack. UNWRA said last week that some of its staff reported being tortured by Israeli forces into making false confessions about UNRWA’s relationship with Hamas.
“Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to (make) confessions under torture and ill-treatment. These false confessions were in response to questioning about relations between UNRWA and Hamas and involvement in the 7 October attack against Israel,” UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma said in a statement.
The spending bill bans the funding of UNWRA until 2025. Instead of funding the UN agency, it provides $175 million in aid for Palestinians in the West Bank in Gaza that will go through the US Agency for International Development, which is $50 million less than what was allocated for Palestinians last year.
Total complicity in genocide.
It’s time to revisit Nuremberg.
Nothing will happen to them, just like Bush, Cheney and Blair are enjoying their retirement with their ill gotten gains. I do expect something in the way of Karma to kick in, however I do not want to be in the path of that when it hits.
Yes,Hamas and those who supply and fund it should be put on trial for war crimes.
Except the only one conducting an ongoing genocide is Israel. And even if Hamas has the same intentions regarding Israel, they don’t have the capability. Israel has made their intentions known AND they have the capability. Thanks to Uncle Sam.
Billions in military aid to kill what is left of mostly women and kids in Gaza? Seems like the IDF is going to run out of targets at that rate, Israel must have something else up their sleave for their neighbor’s borders.
They won’t run out of targets anytime soon, because those civilians and the places where they live, work, pray and seek care are the targets.
Israel and the US will be covered in shame for generations — and they will, eventually, come to care about that.
I wish. It’ll probably be at the same level of care as we give the two civilian cities we bombed with nuclear bombs. Dude! We’re not even mentioned by the Japanese when they celebrate the occasions.
Hiroshima Survivors Decry Link to Pearl Harbor
A U.S.-Japan “sister peace park” agreement angers representatives of the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, who want Washington to admit the “A-bomb did not end the war and save the lives of American soldiers.”
Kunihiko Sakuma, who chairs the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organization, said reconciliation cannot truly be reached between the two countries until the U.S. acknowledges that “The A-bomb did not end the war and save the lives of American soldiers as the U.S. side likes to say.”
“It was clear that Japan was going to lose,” he told Nikkei Asia, saying the attack was unnecessary and meant as a display of U.S. military power.
“Unless that fundamental issue is addressed, we cannot just focus on the future,” said Sakuma.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/07/hiroshima-survivors-decry-link-to-pearl-harbor/
A lonely voice in Japan. With a little more time, they probably blame it on Russia and if needed, China as well. You’re talking about stupidity that wasn’t possible in the dark ages, Dread!
how many Japanese are even aware of the Rape of Nanking and Korea? the Bataan deathmarch?
Yeah, but we have effectively occupied and/or otherwise controlled Japan since its WWII surrender. Most of the rest of the world mentions us every time the subject of nuclear holocaust arises.
What the bloody Sam hell is the US government doing funding a ga gasterópodo state?! I want my tax money back, in full.
They love to play victims…! As if it is Hamas that is slaughtering Israelis…!
war crimes crimes against humanity ethnic cleansing genocide https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e54816052669c91b3d7417561ff645895a725bce4fd317198cdca05918bacdcb.jpg is not as cheap as it used to be….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a0cd98b50944ee4ef0095069e5081bef0952f4d4a2b0578e50b8ae6501ba8d33.jpg
As sure as the sunrise each morning, the traitors of DC reward their masters.
It”s called “turn your pockets inside out for genocide, feller Murkins”.