The Biden administration is close to approving a massive $18 billion arms deal for Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets, CNN reported on Monday.
The news is the latest sign that the administration still strongly supports Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza despite US officials claiming to be concerned with the massive civilian death toll. Last week, President Biden approved more bomb shipments to Israel and an F-35 deal worth $2.5 billion.
The CNN report said the administration informally notified the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees about the potential F-15 deal in January. The top Republicans on both committees, Sen. James Risch (R-ID) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), have already given their approval on the deal.
If the top Democrats on the committees, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), don’t raise any objections to the F-15 transfer, the administration can formally notify Congress about the deal.
The notification will begin a 30-day period when lawmakers could block it through legislation. While a growing number of Democrats have been calling for the US to cut off military aid to Israel, the majority of Congress still backs Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza.
Also on Monday, State Department spokesman Matt Miller was grilled about the hypocritical position of the US as it expresses concerns about the civilian death toll in Gaza and the starvation blockade while continuing to arm Israel, including by sending 2,000 pounds of bombs. Miller was specifically asked if he was concerned that the position would damage US credibility.
“I do not agree with that at all. We have been very clear that we want to see Israel do everything it can to minimize civilian casualties. We have made clear that they need to operate at all times in full compliance with international humanitarian law,” he said. “At the same time, we are committed to Israel’s right to self-defense, and this is a long-term commitment the United States has made.”
The State Department claims Israel is following international law in Gaza despite the mass civilian casualties and video evidence of Israel killing unarmed Palestinians.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that the death toll in Gaza has reached 32,845 Palestinians, which is considered a low estimate since it doesn’t take into account the thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble. UNICEF said last month that over 13,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel, a number that also doesn’t take into account the bodies of children under the rubble.
Not just support for Gaza slaughter, but also support for the bombardment of Syria and Lebanon…!
They appear to get ready to invade (attack) Iran. The weapons are not needed to destroy Gaza, that has been accomplished, next is Iran, Lebanon and Syria. The Navy is in the region already awaiting orders.
I believe there are two carrier groups. I listened to an interview with Col. (ret) Lawrance Wilkerson on the Ralph Nader show and he said that two carriers was a little concerning, but if a third is added (so attacks can go around the clock), is would be extremely concerning. It is his view that the attack on Iran is on.
“Four more ships deploy to build Gaza humanitarian aid port” Army Times. Mar. 12 40 days left of the 60 days needed to build the port.
Looks like more support to attack Iran than AID for Palestinians, after all there are hundreds of trucks at the gates to deliver if that were what they really want to do. Even neocons are not that stupid to build an unneeded port.
More proof that the US is directly committed to the Gaza Genocide and further to expanding the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and especially Iran.
This deal is because the US and Israel knows that in an expanded war with Hezbollah and Lebanon Israel is going to lose a LOT of aircraft both because they are shot down by Hezbollah and Iranian and Syrian AD and destroyed on the ground on Israeli airfields. So they’re going to need more aircraft.
This is part of the planning for the expanded war.
To figure out what’s going on, you just have to remember that the neocons are in charge and Biden is a warmonger – and do the math.
Some people have analyzed the push as a back door method to weaken Russia by way of Syria.
The problem with that line of thought is the thousands of nukes Russia has. What chaos would ensue in the U.S. if an all out attack on key states happens? Hits on vital farm lands, shipping ports? Why would the idiots in D.C., Langely, Pentagon think that war with Russia would be confined to “over there”? I did not attend Harvard, Yale, a military academy, but I can surmise the bad that can come out of the current minds in the places I just mentioned. Intelligent people are not necessarily smart.
And who says they are intelligent?
Yes, this is a real problem. There’s the intelligence of the rat in the maze, and then that of the one who recognizes the maze and looks for a way out.
I rather think our esteemed leadership belongs to the first category.
Worse, American servicemen/women may lose their lives at bases nearby. We will not see the body bags arriving. I worry that it brings Russia into the picture, causing the Russians to use their advanced weapons in great numbers. Israel just be the tipping point to the real war. This is getting pretty f*cked up, FUBAR, perhaps.
Given the pitiful performance of the F15 to date, let the Zionists have them.
What the H are you talking about? The F-15 has shot down over 100 planes in air to air combat with zero losses in air to air combat.
Really, who told you that?
His other entities in his mind, jake and Don Julio.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! If the pilots don’t suffocate from O2 failure, or eject. Stealth aircraft don’t work against doppler radar.
More American JUNK…!!!!
Four more years for Biden? Are you out of your minds? …Sorry. That was rhetorical. Don’t answer. I already know the answer.
I have a terrible feeling that a colossal false flag operation will happen in the US before election which will manufacture consent for the WW these lunatics are itching for.
We’re ready to go over a “spy” balloon that was not actually a “spy” balloon. So, I don’t even think it would take much. Dude! Someone might just rerun the War of the Worlds and we would buy it. …yes. We really are that stupid.
Look at how people acted during the Covid pandemic.
it does not matter the neocon Zionists are in charge, orders originate in Tel Aviv.
Orders originate in New York City.
Coordinated with Tel Aviv one would expect?
Langley, Pentagon, Goldman Sachs, MIC. Not necessarily in the order.
To quote a classic: “We’re on an elevator to hell and it’s going down”.
We are there. The MIC, CIA, Big Banking put us where we are. The “government” no longer exists. All our “representatives” think about is the money in the trough for the next campaign, the perks of working part time, money stuffed into their pockets. The “vote” is just a ruse to get us to think we can make a difference with a different administration. Nope. New boss, same as the old boss. Only he/she is not the boss of anything.
Trump will green light Israel plans to annex a large part of the West Bank. I can wait to hear you cry about that.
Trump would green-light plans to annex parts of the US if his corporate banker masters told him to
Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Recently, he said Israel should “finish the job”, stop the pictures of the carnage going out, jus shut down news (well, Israel is trying, having killed almost 200 journalist since 7Oct). Trump and Biden hold similar views, with Biden (to me) being Trump with aviator glasses, and a liar almost as bold as Trump. What a choice we have this November: f*ckery, or more f*ckery. Or, as Nina Turner put in in 2020: two halves of a plate of sh*t. Great, isn’t it? We are living in h*ll. But we still got NASCAR, right?
Which must mean you support Trump.
It would be God’s given right for the Israelis to annex what is left of the WB.
Son in Law, the Zombie, will develop luxury homes and hotels along the waterfront in Gaza. Trump (if he doesn’t wind up in jail) will develop a hotel there. Israel will build a new port (with U.S. taxpayer money helping, of course), and a new airport. It will be wonderful. Amnesia will set in, history will be quiet about what has happened, all forgotten, just like Cast Lead, Protective Edge. Back in October, Norman Finkelstein predicted all will be forgotten. Palestinians still alive, children with missing limbs, will live in Negev desert, only to die.
There is a price the US will have to pay for contributing to such instability in the world…
Israel’s fate has been decided…
“Israel’s fate has been decided” It has? Good to know. And while you are using your crystal ball, can you tell the price of Chevron stock by the end of summer?
you should probably buy some of that stock because they are going to raise the price of gasoline drastically so that we will blame Biden for the inflation and cast our votes for Trump who will tell one lie after another about how he is the next Jesus and actually loves America more than life itself.
Biden would do the same. Tel Aviv is in control, Biden signs the checks. Trump would do the same.
Bingo!
CANT DECIDE WHO IS WORSE BIDEN OR TRUMP..
both are bad for the world but IMO Trump is worse for America itself than Biden
Biden is Trump with aviator glasses.
Right now, it’s Biden. His genocide made him the worst ever. But it doesn’t make Trump good by any means.
Let’s hope, but hope is all there is at this point. The USA is leading planet Earth to the Abyss, and the bus driver is demented beyond all reason.
Is there even a driver? Maybe the electronics are on the blink?
US has supported and will continue to support Israel. From the movie Stripes: “That is facts Jack”
Are you a Zionist?
And any malevolent leader or country on the face of the earth.
If you’re going to be an asshole, at least get the quote right.
arms deal for Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets
50 brand new ones. check this out, they don’t even need them.
google = “”At almost 400 fighters strong, Israel boasts the world’s second-largest F-16 fleet, operating various types throughout the decades””
smallest country in the world has the 2nd largest fleet of fighter jets
they are getting ready to attack Iran, that is why they need them, besides that it is profitable business.
And Lebanon.
We’re probably dumping them in order to buy some more modern lethality from the political backers of the two wings of our war party.
OOOOOO. NOOOO MORE GENOCIDE JOE….
The morons in D.C. are going to expand the activities into other countries. At the end of his interview by Chris Hedges, Norman Finkelstein surmised that Israel may even use tactical nukes on Iran. If that happens, we will enter into a great unknown. G-d help us all.
The end of the human experience will be brought about by a fatal deficit in the level of intelligence.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that the death toll in Gaza has reached 32,845 Palestinians, which is considered a low estimate since it doesn’t take into account the thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
That includes those buried by bombs and bulldozers.
And all because Hamas just had to attack Israel. And for what? To get PR points?
No. All because Israel responded with a genocidal attack. Including shooting unarmed men and bulldozing them into the ground. That’s on Israel. Period.
No, this war is on Hamas. All those people would be alive if Gaza did not attack Israel last October. And all the death and destruction stops when Hamas surrenders. But terrorists supporters, like you, seem to think that it is OK for terrorists to attack Israel at will with no response from Israel.
The Hamas attack on Israel is on Hamas. Israel’s geocidal response to that attack is on Israel. And I don’t support Israel, that would be you. Hamas can only aspire to be the terrorists that Israel has proven to be.
The violence on 7Oct by the young Hamas fighters that broke through was taught by the violence of the IDF though the years. It was foreordained, and many believe that the Zionist administration in Israel knew well in advance the plans for the attack. How could they not know. Mossad, Sin Bett, spies on the ground in Gaza, listening posts by Israel and by the U.S. (Cyprus and other posts). Why would Netanyahu have a minimum of IDF away from the perimeter? Why did the Israeli IDF command order the Hannibal actions, killing 400 Israelis, including the post girl? To be the pretext for the ethnic cleansing and genocide underway in Gaza and the West Bank.
No, they would have been subjected to the same blockade, humiliation, limitation of medicine, food, potable water, their crops destroyed, shot at, subjected to night raids, an existence in what Ehud Barak described as a concentration camp. It was as the Nat Turner rebellion was about. The difference is the treatment of Afican Americans was out in the open, whereas the treatment of Palestinians was not really known of understood.
Killing Rachel Corrie. Knocked down by a bulldozer (made in America), then run over. Twice. Our d*mned leaders in D.C. are cowards, just like the administration in 1967 when Israel tried to sink the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 American servicemen, wounding more than 170. President Johnson ordered our fighter jets that had been launched to counter the Israeli attackers (jets, torpedo boats) called back. He said he “did not want to embarrass an ally”. Can you believe that? The report I read indicated the pilots who were ordered back were p*ssed. Every June the survivors of the attack have a reunion. For years, they were forbidden to tell what happened. For years.
Hamas did it, what else do you expect?
Terrible Hamas refuses the unconditional surrender expected from them. What right do they think they have when the Gods in Tel Aviv and DC say they have no human rights, they are animals?
They are called vermin, animals. I have members of my family who have bought in on the calls for the “terrorists” to be exterminated. I cannot discuss history with them. Facts cannot be discussed.
Hamas retaliated for decades of brutal illegal occupation, the ISRAELIS ARE THE AGGRESSORS and the Western Banana Republics are complicit.
There is nothing Hamas did that would excuse the sadistic Israeli war crimes on unarmed civilians, mostly women and children and the unbelievable dastardly deeds on young Palestinian men.
Shame on Israel and the USA and other Western so-called democracies.
All because Israel just had to occupy Palestine for 75 years, have a brutal blockade for 17 years, let increased numbers of Jewish settler thugs increase in the West Bank. Cause and effect. The breakout was instrumental in that the mask was removed, showing what the Zionists in Israel are like (along with the Israeli population that is all in on the genocide, sadly so, at 68%). A sad time for the “light of the world”. Bless the Jews who abhor what is happening in their name, though their number are small. Jewish Voice for Peace, Never Again. Bless the people of the world who stand against what is happening in Gaza, West Bank.
Ralph Nader estimates the number might be in the 100’s of thousands.
Every article I read about actions taken by this administration reinforces the question on me: why is this ogre of a human still around.
The man is filled with rot, and his actions are taking the country with him.
I’m old enough to remember the Vietnam war with some clarity. Compared with Biden, LBJ was the prince of peace.
Compared to Genocide Joe, even Adolf Hitler becomes a nice guy.
The Israeli Zionists are doubled down Nazis.
I remember it clearly. Reported for the draft Feb. 1965. A kid the next street over from me, a nice kid, was killed on his first mission, hit as he exited the copter. His sister became a basket case, suicidal. Just f*cked up. Johnson was no “prince of peace”, extending the war, increasing the manpower, B-52 carpet bombing, introduction of defoliants. Biden hasn’t killed 2 million. Yet. War is a Racket. Best book on war I have read. Major General Smedley Butler, recipient of two Congressional Medal for his actions as an infantry soldier in WWI. Instrumental in stopping dead a coup that was planned against the Roosevelt administration in the 1930’s. Where are men like that today?
Thanks for your service. I started out as enlisted in the Naval Security group while in college, then four years after OCS teaching at a Naval Nuclear power school. Had friends who had been over there. Then came Nixon with his secret plan to end the war…
I do have some empathy for Johnson because he got corraled into the war by Kennedy’s leftovers immediately after he assumed the office. I saw a few interviews after he left office, not long before he passed away. They were illuminating.
As to the quality of today’s crop? Ha!
Well said. We do not have real leaders, real statesmen/women. The same goes for the Europeans, Orban and Erdogan are exceptions.
We have liars groveling for the money. Both parties share the same trough.