On Thursday, the US State Department approved a potential arms deal for Israel for tank trailers that’s worth about $165 million in the latest US show of support for the Israeli military amid the genocidal war in Gaza.
“The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Israel of Heavy Duty Tank Trailers and related equipment for an estimated cost of $164.6 million,” the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said.
The approval is the first step in the arms deal and begins a period when Congress could block the sale, but it won’t face any roadblocks since there’s a strong bipartisan consensus for arming Israel. The DSCA said the deliveries of the trailers are expected to begin in 2027.
The sale will likely be paid for using Foreign Military Financing (FMF), a form of US military aid that provides funds to foreign governments to purchase US arms. Israel is the only country that’s also allowed to use a portion of its FMF aid to purchase domestically manufactured weapons.
Israel receives $3.8 billion in military aid from the US each year, which includes $3.3 billion in FMF. In April, President Biden signed a bill into law authorizing another $17 billion in military aid for Israel. In August, the State Department approved a series of weapons deals for Israel worth $20 billion, including an $18.8 billion deal for a new fleet of F-15 fighter jets.
US military aid is required for Israel to sustain its operations in Gaza, which kills dozens of Palestinians every day, and it supports escalations in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria.
"The DSCA said the deliveries of the trailers are expected to begin in 2027."
In other news, the end of the world has been postponed so that Biden can continue to play stupid games with his eyes closed. Hold my beer!
How can selling military tactor tailers cause the world to end? Whatever you smoking today, put it away.
That isn't what I said. Your reading comprehension skills are needing some attention.
Not as much as your writing skills need improved. You don't start a discussion with a quote and than claim the quote has nothing to do with what you wrote. If what you quoted is not related to what you said, why make the quote?
You are equating metaphorical with literal. The joke's on you.
Now you also need to improve your ability to write a joke.
Hi Tim:
What the heck is up your buttocks?!?!?…
His head.
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Not as much as your writing skills need improved.
Like you?
How can selling military tactor tailers cause the world to end? Whatever you smoking today, put it away.
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Sure he’s still kickin’?
I continue to hear a giant sucking sound….Ah….. Israel just sucked the money out of my wallet………………………………………………………………….
They do more, they suck your blood.
What?… You expect us to pay for our own Tank Trailers?
Another sign that the US will continue to protect Israel. Israel haters, and you know who you are, will be upset over this.
We hate war criminals, inhumane monsters. The Zionists are taking advantage of the cowardly elected officials without morals and a demented president. There is not a statesman with integrity and decency in sight in the mad house called WH. Mafia types have more humanity than these monsters in Washington and Tel Aviv.
Credit for being honest with you hate.
Do you love war criminals, would you like them to be your neighbors? Do you understand it is a question of morals and human decency? It does not move you when they kill unarmed civilians and tell you lies and riot in support of torture including sodomy? That means nothing to you?
Let me see how honest you are and and your show of human decency and integrity and how you stand up for your conviction in the face of all the malice and evil of the viscous Israelis. Stand up and be counted.
Now I am going to have to take some credit a way from you for basing so much of your hate on propaganda and failure to understand urban warfare.
Nothing she said was propaganda. Literally thousands upon thousands of unarmed Palestinians have been killed by the IDF terrorists. And a plurality (47%) of the Israeli public backed the IDF sticking electrified steel rods up people's asses. It's you that has been brainwashed beyond belief. How else could any normal human being be so lacking in empathy?
Please define the propaganda and my failure to understand urban warfare.
What is urban warfare? As I understand it Gaza is urban, densely populated, with no military installations, so other than civilian structure, there is nothing to bomb, by now the Israelis are bombing tent cities with 2000 pound bombs and bomb the rubble left from the last bombing. There is nothing else to bomb, I don’t care what you call it, they must have bombed the hospital, schools and churches all the infrastructure several times over, the people have been displaced several times over. The people were pushed in safe places and then bombed. Is all of this just propaganda??
I am old enough to know what bombed out cities look like, I have seen it.
Another sign that fucking morons back genocide. Fucking morons, and you know you are, will be happy over this.
Can’t argue that good wars.
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The Israelis are bloodsuckers. The Biden administration is cornered by a herd of dogs of war. And the demented man we call president will meet with the clown in Kiev next month I believe. What could they possibly discuss?
And Hamas terrorists are angels. The shoot kidnapped victims after 11 months so that the victims don't have to return to that "horrible" country of Israel. No blood lust by Hamas, just a nice bunch of guys playing chess in their tunnels of love.
You know Tim?……I think wars brings out the worst in some people. But basically? Most folks are basically good folks.
Those 6 hostages killed would be considered a very, very slow day for the IDF terrorists.
Tim, Hamas fights with their hands bound behind their backs for their and their siblings basic human rights. The Israelis are NOT the victims.
Our ruling class is funding the genocide with our hard earned taxes.
The settlers are fanatic and sadistic criminals from NY. They are as evil as they come, at our expense. That does not bother you? The Israelis torture thousands of Palestinians. Israeli war crimes are documented, Israeli allegations of Hamas war crimes have been debunked, there is no evidence, that does not say it never happens, but it is not systematic like the Israeli war crimes in addition to the well recorded genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israelis.
Tim, that is nothing to be proud of. That smears the nation’s history for ever. Why is our government complicit in the brutality, the war crimes by the Israelis against the Palestinians?? Why, what did the Palestinians do to the Israelis and to the USA, two nuclear powers? Why all that evil perpetrated on unarmed people including babies? Tell me, what justifies that? Explain why our rabbit dogs of war are out of control. WHY and WHY again, what is your answer??
Wish that we would ally with the Iranians.
Considering how many of their Merkava tanks they've lost in Gaza so far there might not be any need for them by the time they're delivered.