On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he had expedited the shipment of $4 billion in military aid for Israel, a strong show of support for Israel as it is threatening to restart its genocidal war on Gaza.
“I have signed a declaration to use emergency authorities to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel,” Rubio said in a statement.
He claimed that President Biden had imposed a “partial arms embargo” on Israel, although Biden provided more military aid to Israel in a single year than any US president in history.
“The decision to reverse the Biden Administration’s partial arms embargo, which wrongly withheld a number of weapons and ammunition from Israel, is yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump,” Rubio said.
Rubio said that since President Trump came into office on January 20, his administration has approved $12 billion in arms deals for Israel. “The Trump Administration will continue to use all available tools to fulfill America’s long-standing commitment to Israel’s security, including means to counter security threats,” he said.
The statement came a day after the statement department approved three separate arms deals for Israel worth nearly $3 billion, which includes a huge number of 2,000-pound bombs. The biggest sale, which will likely be funded by US military aid, includes 35,529 MK-84 or BLU-117 2,000-pound bombs and 4,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads.
Israel has used heavy bombs in strikes on residential buildings that have killed hundreds of civilians. It has also weaponized the bombs as chemical weapons after finding that dropping several of them on tunnels releases deadly carbon monoxide gas.
The second arms deal approved on Friday includes 5,000 1,000-pound bombs and 1,500 JDAM kits to turn the munitions into guided bombs, worth $675 million. A third sale is for $300 million worth of Caterpillar D9 Bulldozers, which Israel uses to demolish Palestinian homes in Gaza and the West Bank.
When approving the three deals on Friday, the State Department claimed it was an “emergency” and bypassed Congress.
“The Secretary of State has determined and provided detailed justification that an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale to the Government of Israel of the above defense articles and defense services in the national security interests of the United States, thereby waiving the Congressional review requirements under Section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act,” the Pentagon said.
In the long run money to Israel will go the same way as money to Ukraine.
Two different conflicts. Israel is a nuclear-armed country and an ally of the United States that was attacked by a tiny enemy; it could easily pulverize every member of Hamas in a few hours. Plus, Israel now does not face the restraints put on it by the previous administration. If war starts again – as seems likely- they will reduce the rubble of Gaza to ashes.
"…easily pulverize every member of Hamas in a few hours." Especially when they don't care if they take a bunch of Israeli bystanders with them.
And become a national pariah in the eyes of humanity.
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No Zionism means a state for the Jewish people. Everyone wants a homeland; the Founding Fathers in America wanted a homeland; the Kurds want a homeland; the Poles want a homeland.
So, bumper sticker comments like this are meaningless.
The problem with your line of reasoning is a Jewish state is being imposed militarily on another people's homeland, This is being done based on old cave man writings and on world-wide media. It is making many people sick and tireed of witnessing grotesque atrocities committed by Jews against Palestinians in modern times. Public barbarism in the name of God is frowned on by modern peoiple,
If they were smart, they would stay in one place and declare their own state instead of migrating to different parts of the world…!
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Blinken lives.
Is it really a "vote" when it comes to ANYTHING Israel, with a gun pointed at every rep's head? Any nation that supports the death and destruction inflicted upon defenseless innocent people should be ashamed of itself!
Yes, but did he sign them babies like Nicky?
The brothers of the same cause…!
“The Secretary of State has determined and provided detailed justification . . ." Must get on with the slaughtering and obliterating in the security interests of the US and waive Congressional review . . . No wonder Little Marco looks crouched and small and ill sitting on the couch at Royal Meetings with His Master's Voice to one side lecturing from his Throne on the Need for Peace . . .
Rubio needs to be expedited!…
Bombs for children
but they take away their food
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b168b0fb8d63d30f7fe63bef57670b67dc858d82bbaacbfa1c95da049127eee7.jpg and do you know the real definition of what evil is?
"Rubio"? Rubio does what the peace master orders.
More shipments of US weapons at the same time that they agree with Netanyahu to stop food and health aid to Gaza. so much winning adn peace.
But you know it still works because the majority of Americans do not care or even bother about foreign policy. they love all the stuff Trump has done so far on the domestic front with which many former liberals agree with as well. "America first" is a big old lie but is used to woo the crowd.
So is this aid to Israel in the form of loans or grants?