The Wall Street Journal published details about the White House’s secretive arms transfers to Israel since October 7. The US has provided Israel with 57,000 artillery shells and 15,000 bombs, including over 5,000 with 2,000-pound warheads.
According to a list of weapons obtained by the Journal, the US has shipped Israel “more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or ‘dumb’ bombs, more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000-pound warhead bombs, around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs, and approximately 3,000 JDAMs.”
The US has additionally shipped 57,000 155 MM shells to Israel. NBC News previously reported in October that Washington sent Tel Aviv artillery rounds that are cluster munitions.
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and officer in the Marine Corps, described the weapons as those the US would use in non-urban areas. “They are kind of the weapons of choice for the fights we had in Afghanistan and Syria in open, non-urban areas,” he said. “The US may use them in more urban areas, but first it would do a lot of target analysis to make sure the attack was proportional and based on military necessity.”
By contrast, Gaza is about 140 sqare miles and home to 2.3 million people—one of the most densely packed regions on earth. Additionally, Israel has relied on an AI program to rapidly generate lists of suspected low-level Hamas members to target, without respect to civilians in proximity.
The Israeli policy has led to the widespread devastation of Gaza. At least 15,000 civilians have been killed. The number of dead Palestinian children exceeds the number of Hamas fighters Israel has claimed to kill by many thousands. Nearly 100,000 buildings in Gaza have been damaged by Israel’s bombing campaign, including the destruction of universities, hospitals, schools, and entire residential neighborhoods.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Israel was killing civilians in Gaza at a “historic pace.” The outlet added that part of the explanation for the huge death toll was Tel Aviv’s willingness to drop 2,000-pound American-made bombs on various civilian centers.
Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon analyst who advises the Dutch organization PAX, told the Times that he’s never seen anything like it. “It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” he said. Garlasco added that to find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, one would have to “go back to Vietnam or the Second World War.”
Israeli officials and American politicians have attempted to justify Tel Aviv’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by referring to the allied bombings of Tokyo during World War II. In a single night during the bombing of Tokyo, more than 100,000 people were burned to death by American napalm bombs.
The White House has made some requests to Tel Aviv to try to curb civilian casualties. However, the Biden administration has refused to condition future weapons shipments to Israel on reducing the civilian death toll.
The US has primarily relied on aircraft for quick shipment to Israel hundreds of millions of dollars in arms during the past two months. Unlike weapons shipments to Ukraine, the Biden administration has refused to provide the public with information on the arms it is providing to Tel Aviv.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
There you go, America is now a Terrorist State! I hope Americans educate themselves on what Israel is doing, understand this is not a religious war, it is a Genocide for Land. America is back to killing for land, I thought we moved on, but I was wrong.
Land or resources, look at Syria and Iraq, stealing their oil.
Just the federal government kowtowing to AIPAC and the other special interests which have bought and paid for Congress. Nothing to see here.
included thousands of 2,000-pound bombs
here is a 2000 lb bomb =
Since you are sharing facts about a 2000 pound bomb, I will mention that the fireball shown in the video is result of blending Aluminum with the high explosive. The burning Aluminum create the fireball but robs the TNT or RDX of oxygen, thus the black smoke you see is the result of partially oxidized explosives.
I applaud you Tim, Jake, Don. The three (in one) of you take today’s award for irrelevancy.
are you suggesting that is a special 2000 lb bomb and that a regular 2000 lb bomb is less effective? ok since you have shared a fact, i will point out that the spectacular fire-ball and the black smoke are not the elements responsible for the blast-zone pressure wave and the resultant crater.
Nope, not a special 2000 pound just the general loading for a MK 84. And yes aluminum makes the bomb more destructed.
True, the blast wave is cause by TNT or RDX. However, the AL burning increases the temperature of the blast which increase the time the blast wave is positive. So yes the fire ball does increase the size of the blast zone. That is why aluminum is added to the bomb.
The black smoke is cause by incomplete oxidation of the TNT which is just a side note.
so the aluminum component is a standard ingredient in the “thousands of 2,000-pound bombs that have been used to devastate Gaza”.
Yes.
Now, Zelboy will be super jealous…!
Yeah, didn’t we tell him we were running low on bombs and shells?
What a surprise. Instead of helping Americans the Federal Government decides to send weapons to Israel so they can ethnically cleanse Gaza with explosions.
Unicef spokesman says ‘today those in power decided the killing of children would recommence in Gaza’
I HATE MY COUNTRY. Perhaps if those in power had the opportunity to hold their mutilated child or grandchild as Palestinians are………………………………….
It’s not your country, you phony.
But if it was, you need to move to Russia and go die for its dictator you so much support here.
Hypocrite.
maybe he lives in Iceland. anyway Julio, i think you might be forgetting something =
This land is your land, and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
In another lifetime it might have been made for you and me, but Nah, right about now, it’s pretty apparent that this land is made for the billionaires and the the 1%’er’s. They have control of the media, corporations, the Gov’ment educational system, career government employees and others in the loop. But don’t despair, we still have the NFL and other ‘bread and circuses’ to entertain the masses and give them the illusion that they have freedom to chose their own ‘cough’ leaders.
ok Bill, you are correct, but i will suggest that my having paid property-tax for the last couple of decades enables me to put a hole right through the body of you or anybody else who intrudes onto my property. official agents are smart enough to get a warrant before they start to exceed their jurisdiction.
With natural law that would be correct as natural rights don’t come from Gov’ment, but if you have to take violent action against someone on your property, you might be facing time in jail regardless whether or not you believe you have a right to protect your property because authorities in some ‘Blue States’ don’t always see it that way. Really the rule of law doesn’t matter in many places and especially not with this administration.
hey Bill, i am no dummy. i have lived long enough that i have a grandchild and my little sister has a great-grand child. LOL i keep refocusing my stupid rifle-scope as if it will save my family from zombies.
what
I love my country but I have nothing but contempt and disgust for the cancer that is the federal government. Almost as much contempt and disgust as the founders of this country had for it.
WAR CRIMES???…………………………………………
COMPLICITY???………………………………………….
US, ISRAEL???……………………………………………
One bomb per each (as of now calculated) dead Palestinian. Not including the scorched earth landscape.
Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and officer in the Marine Corps, described the weapons as those the US would use in non-urban areas. “They are kind of the weapons of choice for the fights we had in Afghanistan and Syria in open, non-urban areas,” he said. “The US may use them in more urban areas, but first it would do a lot of target analysis to make sure the attack was proportional and based on military necessity.”
Look at this guy. Trying to be funny.
I’m sure the Israelis are doing plenty of analysis before using these bombs….well, at least 30 seconds worth.
Nah, the magical AI analyst doesn’t take nearly that long. It can pick dozens of school, hospital and mosque targets at the speed of light.
Yep, they are figuring out how they can maximize the number of dead Palestinian civilians with each drop
Here’s another funny guy: https://youtu.be/_0zd0zrMSB8?si=bdFZkKUc2k14pAYC
From north to south, nowhere safe in Gaza as 700 killed in 24 hours
Israel’s war on Gaza is escalating, leaving death and devastation across the besieged strip.
At least 700 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours – one of the highest daily death tolls since the war began on October 7.
From the north to the south, Palestinians in Gaza say nowhere is safe.
The Israeli military targeted the Jabalia refugee camp for a second day. Several homes were destroyed, killing dozens of people. More are buried under the rubble.
Israel has also called on residents from certain neighbourhoods in Khan Younis in southern Gaza to evacuate. Roads leading to other parts of the city or further south have been destroyed or heavily damaged.~Aljazeera
Israel is so nice. It bombs REFUGEE CAMPS! Does anyone stop and think about what that actually entails? Actually bombing actual REFUGEE CAMPS!
“former deputy assistant secretary of defense” because of course the USA is in great danger.
Should be clear to all people with an once of empathy for the human race that Genocide Joe has got to go (Sooner the better.) Support movement “#abondon biden” to ditch Genocide Joe:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/02/swing-state-muslim-leaders-biden-00129758.