President Biden told CNN on Wednesday that the US would stop sending heavy bombs to Israel if its military launched a major invasion of Rafah and acknowledged that Israel has been killing civilians with US-provided munitions.
The comments marked the first time Biden appeared to put conditions on US military aid to Israel, but it might not make a difference. A US official told The Washington Post a day earlier that Israel already had enough munitions supplied by the US and other countries to launch a full-scale assault on Rafah.
In the interview, President Biden claimed that Israel had not “gone in Rafah” despite launching an operation to capture the Rafah border crossing, ordering an evacuation of eastern parts of the city, and launching heavy airstrikes.
“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” he said.
“They haven’t gone into the population centers. What they did is right on the border. And it’s causing problems with, right now, in terms of – with Egypt, which I’ve worked very hard to make sure we have a relationship and help. I’ve made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet: They’re not going to get our support, if in fact they go on these population centers,” Biden added.
The interview came after US officials said that the administration had paused a shipment of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs that was bound for Israel. However, US officials also announced a new $827 million weapons package for Israel, the contents of which are unclear, and vowed Israel would get all of the $17 billion in new military aid that was recently authorized.
“We’re going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently,” he said. “But it’s, it’s just wrong. We’re not going to – we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells.”
Biden admitted that “civilians have been killed in Gaza” as a consequence of the US providing bombs to Israel. Back in December, he labeled the Israeli bombing campaign “indiscriminate” but continued to ship heavy bombs and approve arms deals for Israel.
Does anybody believe this bovine excrement?
I believe Biden is lying. He doesn’t say what he means. He’ll continue to support Israel’s destruction of who and what’s left in Gaza.
Trump will do the same thing if he is re-elected, the only differences are that Trump won’t say he’ll halt arms shipments to Israel and won’t call for ceasefires to let aid get in. He’ll let the war and genocide go uninterrupted.
Course not – The statement was that they would not be sending heavy bombs.
Look upon this as damage control – stocks are running low and they’re bound to have lots of smaller bombs.
They helped stock weapons first before they said they stopped sending new stock.
Start→→→→ →→→→ →→→→ →→→→ goalpost redline.
G’wan, cross this line – see what happens…Oh yea? Well cross this line!
Biden Says He Will Stop Sending Israel Heavy Bombs but did he?
The bombs were shipped some time ago, the pause is just a joke and showing confidence in gullible voters to believe it and vote for the spineless wonder.
He changed the shipping schedule. That is all that is needed to fool the voters.
There is a good chance Ukraine comes crashing down and the pieces are flying around his ears when Zelensky’s term ends 21 May.
Until the US can make up its own mind about who it is, a peacemaker or an undertaker, it will reman at a loss and will not be a reasonable world leader. These are truly times, when I feel great shame about my country.
The idea that the US should be leading the world or any other single nation or group of nations is where all things go wrong, that’s by its very nature a zero sum proposition. None of the alternatives are a solution to abuse of power and none guarantee the peace, but none are as subject to capriciousness and the irrational obsessions of few.
The UNIPARTY of the U.S. of Amnesia is devouring the world. Israel is having dessert.
Until the US can make up its own mind about who it is, a peacemaker or an undertaker
That ship sailed many moons ago.
Biden is the undertaker, the WH and congress is the funeral home.
..and AIPAC is the Director.
Plus financial interests that direct education in American colleges and universities. Perhaps high schools as well. Upton Sinclair wrote a book about it. “The Goosestep: An Investigation of American Education”. He has said that: Sinclair writes, “Our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument of special privilege; its purpose is not to further the welfare of mankind, but merely to keep America capitalist.” In 1923 (!) he said that. We have come a long way, haven’t we????
Nicely worded, Donna. Kind of poetic.
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Give or take a few bombs, US complicity in genocide remains ‘ironclad’
Biden administration’s decision to hold up delivery of 3,500 bombs hardly constitutes a betrayal of the Israeli killing machine.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/9/give-or-take-a-few-bombs-us-complicity-in-genocide-remains-ironclad
“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” he said.
What does that even mean? What bombs have been “historically” used “to deal” with Rajah? Or did he mean he won’t allow what he has already allowed in other parts of Gaza? Fucking babbling moron doesn’t know what he is even talking about.
That is a wilting, brainless vegetable talking.
He’s always been kinda dumb.
but clever, cunning fooling the voters and fill his pockets.
More like having a massive Bernays machine behind him.
I looked it up, you got it.
A GD politician.
The demented old man can barely manage to read his notes, he is a vegetable, not a leader and no matter what, a normal election he could never win. He was never qualified for the office and the establishment knew it.
Being “qualified” means doing as the establishment wants you to. He’s certainly qualified by that measure.
That is true too, the other side of the coin voters don’t know about.
More lies. People just need to ignore anything and everything dripping out of Washington.
I suggest drooling out of Washington…
.but just keep sending every other military ordnance?
Too much bad PR with the big ones. Otherwise….
Threatens to stop supplying if “major” incursion, not “minor”. So all these killings in Rafa are OK, as “minor” incursions. Many “minor ” do not constitute “major”.
And stopping of food is absolutely fine with Biden. Hungry abandoned pets are digging the graves. There is nothing “major” about that!
Should Biden suddenly have a revelation, discover religion , and personal take food to Gaza, he can no longer redeem himself.
Even this, one of the most symbolic, empty gestures — is enough to cause disbelief in Israel.
What an alternnate reality we live in? Election calculus in 21 century — BC?
Biden’s essentially management: Have to kill them more slowly to keep from big headlines. Smaller air raids being one way but starvation is best.
White phosphor in densely populated places will cause unintended collateral damage and is legal.
Biden Lies for its brainless voters…!
You like Trump better?
It’s more about disliking most. Biden enabled a genocide. To me, it ends there.
I won’t vote for Biden or Trump.
You?
God no.
Jill Stein is a great write in candidate.
I’m not sure but I think she’ll be on my ballot so there will be no need for me to write in her name. I’ve voted for her in two elections previously. Kinda like a badge of honor instead of a “wasted vote”.
She has integrity and decency and yes, she is smart too, that more or less is not what politicians are made of.
My feelings have escaladed to despicable, and really hating the inhuman turds.
MHO, Trump and Biden differ in style, otherwise morally they are the same tools for the Israeli and American Zionists. AIPAC,S hired hands.
A Dutch newspaper has used a new word for Biden’s “red lines” namely “pink lines”.
Or dotted red lines–you just go through the spaces.
That Biden will not supply heavy weapons to Israel if they go into Rafah is most probably a feint. Biden most probably will not supply the weapons because Israel already has the weapons (given to them by the U.S.A.) to go into Rafah. It all looks too much like a PR stunt.
That’s because it is.
Here’s what Trump had to say:
“Crooked Joe Biden, whether he knows it or not, just said he will withhold weapons from Israel as they fight to eradicate Hamas Terrorists in Gaza,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Hamas murdered thousands of innocent civilians, including babies, and are still holding Americans hostage, if the hostages are still alive.”
In a Truth Social post, Trump attacked Biden − and Hamas − by accusing the president of “taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses.”
Our future is bleak.
What is mainstream medias response, if any?
One black kettle calling the other one black.
This is not a bad dream, it is real.
It’s a bad dream come true.
The next election will change nothing, this government can’t be reformed from within, it can only be defeated from without.
The UNIPARTY rules. We are all Winston Smith.
True, but it’s an ineffectual descriptor because it doesn’t explain why the two parties with different constituencies and different platforms produce the same results. What America is is a Plutocracy and has been trending that way since Citizens United. Wealth rules our government through direct influence, lobbies, and campaign contributions. Studies have shown the only legislation that gets passed benefiting the general population is passed because it’s supported by wealthy donors.
And I have to be in the same building (maybe the same room) with that shit-heel, and RFK, and Ramaswamy, in a couple of weeks.
Clear your throat. Practice this: I LOVE BIG BROTHER! TO THE UNIPARTY! I LOVE BIG BROTHER!
Keep your eyes and ears wide open and your nose in the air. In other words, be nosy and tell here, we tend to be nosy.
Oh well. Some had hope he would never kiss the ring. I guess he did.
Not as bleak as the Palestinians when and if Trump wins.
Dead is dead. It doesn’t get any bleaker than that. Trump can’t do worse than a genocide.
Is biden gonna draw a red line?
Didn’t they outlaw red paint in DC?
With his fingers crossed.
Biden cares about staying in office so he got permission from. Bibi to speak out kinda sorta against the aid. That is all this is. Hot air
Just to be clear: “Biden says …”, doesn’t mean shit.
He should have done that back in November, 2023. There was ample evidence that Israel was going full Dresden on Gaza. And, it has. Biden is a part of the UNIPARTY that determines our fates and the fates of others in other countries. The dumbest most lacking in morals in all of
American history, and that is saying a lot because we have been hard at work for many years. My country of birth disgusts me.
That’s another way of saying that they’ll send smaller bombs.
They would not want to upset the MIC own and imagined financial forecast and incur a penalty as a result of being hauled into a closed and private tribunal where corporate officials preside over proceedings and award damages in taxpayers funds with no appeal process, but that’s what you’re up against because the MIC have ISDS provisions in their contracts to supply.
Who own the MIC and who are their largest shareholders?
Blackrock & Vanguard which is their largest shareholder while Vanguard’s largest shareholders are the Rothschild a family that has a reputation for marrying inside the family.
After talking to CNN, he then went back to the WH and secretly sent more bombs. Lay 10-to-1 odds on it.
He can easily change the delivery dates, he is competent enough to do that much.
What a dumb move by Biden.
First the people who don’t like Biden will continue to not like him. (See comments here for proof.)
Second, supporters of Israel are now more likely to vote for Trump.
Third, Israel is very capable of making bombs for airplanes. This will just push Israel into aircraft bomb making business. Israel will do it cheaper and will be selling them all over the world in four or five years.
The Israelis have used the 2000 and 500 pound bombs against civilians only, so what is Biden talking about, is he so uninformed or stupid? They used white phosphor munition in populated areas too, what a spineless, stupid turd he is. The IDF is fighting civilians, they are bombing civilian installations, there is no Palestinian army with tanks and airplanes, there is a resistance movement HAMAS with limited home made weapons.
“against civilians only” Hamas fighters living in tunnels are not civilians.