The US has given Israel a massive number of heavy munitions since October 7, including 14,000 of the highly destructive MK-84 2,000-pound bombs that have been repeatedly dropped on civilians in Gaza, Reuters reported on Saturday.
Two US officials told Reuters that the US has also sent 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 small-diameter bombs, and other munitions.
The large number of munitions demonstrates the fact that the Biden administration’s pause on a shipment of powerful bombs did not have a real impact on US military support for Israel. Axios reported on June 27 that the US has approved the transfer of 1,700 500-pound bombs that were part of the paused shipment.
An administration official told reporters last week that the US has provided Israel with $6.5 billion worth of weapons since October 7 to support the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. The administration has vowed Israel will receive all of the $17 billion in additional military aid that was included in the $95 billion bill President Biden signed into law in April.
Despite the massive support, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently accused the US of withholding military aid, a claim the White House called “inaccurate.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited Washington last week, and US officials worked to assure him they were doing everything they could to get Israel all the weapons it wants.
During his visit, Gallant said Israel’s ties with the US were the “second-most important element for Israel’s security” after Israel’s own military. “We need American diplomatic and political support, power projection, supply of munition and more,” he said, according to The Washington Post.
Gallant, who has recently publicly clashed with Netanyahu, was pleased with the progress he made in Washington related to “bottlenecks” that impact the speed of US weapons shipments. “Obstacles were removed and bottlenecks were addressed in order to advance a variety of issues, and more specifically the topic of force build up and munition supply,” he said.
The US is the gift that keeps on giving to Israel and to war, seemingly endless war and ego, on all sides of war, save for the victims.
In Washington they dance to the music coming from Tel Aviv.
Trump knows the beat as well as Biden.
Speculation vs actual guilt of crimes committed and continuing. It is not the same.
Trump might kill children. Biden has killed children, and continues to kill children right now.
It is thousands upon thousands of dead children, with a hundred or more killed every time we blink and start counting again. It is not just a "school shooting."
This is a horror on a scale that makes "school shootings" meaningless. Think about that. What is 20 dead kids against 20,000 dead kids?
“Trump has killed children. Biden has killed children”
Fixed, no charge.
I am not aware of Trump dropping 2,000 lb bombs on masses of children.
However, I agree he might. Might vs already has and is still doing it.
Lousy choice, but it is what it is.
I was responding to your specific claim, not to anything about 2,000 pound bombs.
Trump has killed children. That's just a fact.
How many?
What proportion compared to circa 20,000 in the last few months?
That matters.
It matters, but not in the context of pointing out that "Trump might kill children" ignores the fact that Trump <em>has</em> killed children.
But I'd be surprised if Trump's aggregate child-killing wasn't at least in the same range. A significant portion of the 1500 to 2000 civilians killed in the US assault on Raqqa alone were likely children.
War crimes and crimes against humanity
Only human animals are that evil, enough to treat their own kind so viscously with so much hate and sadism. Words are failing me. Trump and Biden are viscous, they differ only in style, both are bad and are surrounded by bad people.
What did you expect? What's Biden supposed to do? 2.2 million Palestinian civilians are not going to genocide themselves, folks.
No animals are evil. The only evil animals I know of are the human animals.
This is the similar to saying US murdered 14,000 Palestinians…!
15,000 defenseless Palestinian children. "They hate us because our Freedom".
Two US officials told Reuters that the US has also sent 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600 small-diameter bombs, and other munitions.
So, 14,000 2000 lb. bombs plus all of those toys used on 2.3 million people packed in a land area of 141 square miles and our congress can't believe Hamas' body count of 37,000 + dead? As well they shouldn't. That number is a gross undercount.
I sometimes wonder, how much guilt might weigh?….
i wonder how many more they need? The list is long!
April 13, 1991: The neo-con chaotic foreign policy has gone on since former President George H. W. Bush [1989-1993] gave his "new world order" speech.
Project for the New American Century: Neoconservative think tank which envisaged the United States maintaining global hegemony through radical changes in its military and defense policy.
It was carried on by his son president George Dumbya Bush Jr for 8 years and was supposed to be continued by Jeb! Bush until that populist upstart outsider Donald Trump came along and spoiled everything by taking over the GOP.
The worst were a large majority. This is complicity, without excuse.
Someone must be prosecuted by the ICC, or this will keep happening.