Amid growing calls for the US to stop arming Israel, data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has shown that Israel gets 99% of its arms from the US and Germany, The Times of Israel reported on Monday.
The SIPRI report said that from 2019-2023, the “USA accounted for 69% and Germany for 30% of Israeli arms imports.” The report said that imported weapons, particularly combat aircraft received from the US, have “played a major role in Israel’s military actions against Hamas and Hezbollah.”
The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in annual military aid and ramped up weapons deliveries in the wake of October 7 to support the brutal campaign in Gaza, which has killed over 32,000 Palestinians. The Biden administration approved over 100 arms deals for Israel since October and kept the shipments out of the public eye by keeping them under the threshold needed to notify Congress.
“At the end of 2023, the USA rapidly delivered thousands of guided bombs and missiles to Israel, but the total volume of Israeli arms imports from the USA in 2023 was almost the same as in 2022. By the end of 2023, pending deliveries of major arms to Israel included 61 combat aircraft from the USA and 4 submarines from Germany,” the SIPRI report reads.
Some Democrats in Congress have been urging the Biden administration to halt military assistance to Israel, citing foreign assistance laws that prohibit military aid to countries that block US humanitarian aid deliveries. But there’s no sign yet that President Biden is considering ending support for the slaughter in Gaza.
It seems the US/West, needs to re-evaluate its positions, with regard to war, peace and humanity.
Donna, that requires people with character and decency, we don’t have people like that.
The nation needs a re-education about our political ideals and the reality. To know the power of media manipulation of public opinion is important.
They are waiting for you to take the lead so it probably won’t happen. Lol
Yeah, US/West but the rest of the global belligerents can do whatever the F they want with regard to war, peace, and humanity.
Nicaragua is taking Germany and its military support of Israel to the ICJ.
It may not amount to much legally, but the international attention makes the Nicaraguan effort worthwhile.
I hope the Germans get whacked over the head really good.
The holocaust issue does not excuse them to support genocide, two wrongs don’t make a right.
But I realize, they are corrupt and Zionist/USA controlled.
And, Israel and Wash. will scream ‘anti-Semitism’ and use that as an excuse to finally invade Nicaragua, like they have been itching to do since Reagan.
Header says 99%, Breaking News says 69%. Regardless, it doesn’t matter when the weapons account for 100% of the destruction and killing.
Another word, without US and Germany arms Israel would be handicapped and could not start an extended genocide…!
Nicaragua might put the light on it when they bring it to the ICJ. The sooner the better.
It wont go anywhere because Germany doesn’t do anything unless a million of their legal advisors review and dissect every letter in their international arm exports transfer agreements or any other document involving the government for that matter.
Basically, the ICJ will find out Germany has acted within the boundaries of international law.