Posted on 03/18/2025 11:23:14 PM PDT by RandFan
Ping. This is much better. She’s referring to Yemen/Iran threats and actions
MTG.....defending her country?
Is that even allowed?
Who are Trump’s go-to-guys on Yemen/Iran? Is Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, advising the President again? Or is it Netanyahu? Houthis in Yemen are firing missiles at Israel literally as we speak. I thought Israel based on its performance in Gaza, was well-armed, and could defend itself. What has changed? Getting us re-involved in the Middle East was never a MAGA priority!
Bump.
We supply all their money and arms, in return we get all their enemies and problems. It’s become generational, so now my daughter gets to inherit their enemies and problems.
SICK of it.
thetimesofisrael.com
Edited By: Mohit Pandey @KabirMohit
Published: March 08, 2025 15:25 IST,
Updated: March 08, 2025 19:04 IST
(With input from AP)
Tel Aviv-—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s close confidante and a US official held talks regarding the secret negotiation between the US and Hamas for the release of hostages.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is reported to have lashed out at the US hostage envoy Adam Boehler as Israel learnt about the meeting Trump’s envoy had with Hamas representatives, led by Khalil al-Hayya in Doha, The Times of Israel reports.
Why did Netanyahu’s confidante lash out at Trump’s envoy?
Dermer lashed out at Boehler for discussing the number of Palestinian prisoners Israel would release in exchange for the five Israeli-American hostages still in Gaza without PM Netanyahu’s consent, according to a report by Axios.
Boehler, Trump’s hostage envoy, tried to explain that the discussions with Hamas were merely initial talks. Moreover, the US has accused Israel of leaking Boehler’s meeting with Hayya to the media, ultimately decreasing trust between the sides, a Western official said.
The talks between Hamas and the US revolved around bringing home the bodies of four American hostages and Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old American hostage. It also included the number of Palestinian prisoners Israel would release in exchange for Alexander, which appears to be a contentious issue between both countries.
Israel cuts off food, fuel, medicine supplies to Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel has cut off food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people, making food prices soar
The aid freeze has imperiled the tenuous progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to in January After more than 16 months of war, Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on trucked-in food and other aid.
Most are displaced from their homes, and many need shelter. Fuel is needed to keep hospitals, water pumps, bakeries and telecommunications — as well as trucks delivering aid — operating.
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Actually, that’s an extremely astute, well-thought out, political strategy:
<><>US taxpayers supply all of Israel’s economic financing and tranches of armaments;
<><>we get to be involved in all their wars
<><>in return we get all their enemies and problems,
<><>future American generations get to inherit Israel’s enemies and their debts as well,
<><>while Israel gets to be a world leader.....unencumbered.
So brilliant.....could even catch on worldwide.
same... glad so many are waking up
Good for her. Unfortunately, FR has its ME flavor of warmongers to go along with its EU warmongers. Not sure how many of each are actually American, however.
People like to cheer it on the news. I don’t.
We got a small break under Trump I...
Agree but only a few of us feel this way..
Kushner was behind the idea of turning Gaza into some riviera
🙄🙄🙄
It had already caught on.
That’s why Europeans are now up to their eyeballs in migrants and have Deep State’s jackboot on their necks.
Good point.
Look at Canada, too.
If Canadians really supported this bleep, would their Deep State had to install Carney...
Most will not vote for annihilation.
Kind of related:
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
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12h
Hands down one of the coolest things I’ve seen.
Watch this INSANE drone show put on in Florida last night in appreciation of President Trump 🔥🇺🇸
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1902118477248524718
That was interesting...
After all, it was an election year.
Biden’s State Department announced:
<><>over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel,
<><>including fighter jets, armored vehicles, and ammunition
<><>the Friday before, Biden removed several major barriers to arming the Israeli military.
<><>Biden released $3.5 billion in US taxpayer money for the Israeli military,
<><>unfroze a $262 million munition shipment that had been held up since May,
<><>did not restrict US aid to an Israeli army unit accused of beating an American to death.
<><>earlier, Congress passed a $14 billion aid package for Israel.
Biden has been a much more consistent supporter of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza following the October 7, 2024 attacks on Israel.
Although he has verbally called for a ceasefire and held up a single shipment of bombs to the Israeli military, Biden has also worked to remove legal roadblocks and conceal the full amount of U.S. military support to Israel, including sending dozens of small shipments just below the threshold that would require congressional approval.
Earlier this year, Congress passed a $14 billion aid package for Israel. It included funds to replenish weapons that had been sent to Israel from U.S. military warehouses and direct financial grants to the Israeli government. On Friday, the Biden administration released $3.5 billion in those grants.
Biden came into office promising to end “forever wars” in the Middle East. He pulled U.S. forces out of Afghanistan and oversaw a truce in the Yemeni civil war.
Over the past year, however, Biden has reopened the war in Yemen and overseen the deadliest explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence in history.
His legacy may be ensuring that American weapons continue to fuel these conflicts after he leaves office.
For years, the United States supported the Saudi military in Yemen with aerial refueling, intelligence sharing, and a steady supply of ammunition—everything but dropping the bombs themselves. The war killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, spread famine and disease, and failed to dislodge the Houthi movement from power.
In February 2021, Biden announced that he was “ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arm sales,” although he would continue to provide “defensive” support. In April 2022, the United Nations successfully brokered a ceasefire between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis that has held up so far.
But after a series of Houthi attacks on Israeli and foreign shipping in the Red Sea, the Biden administration launched the first direct U.S. strikes on Houthi forces—and the first airstrikes by anyone on Yemen in more than a year—in January this year.
Most of the Israeli military spending bonanza announced over the past few days is not intended for use in Gaza. The largest portion of this expenditure is an $18.82 billion deal for F-15 fighter jets and related accessories, with deliveries scheduled for 2029.
The $262 million munition shipment, however, is immediately useful for the Israeli military. It includes 6,500 joint direct attack munition (JDAM) kits, a GPS guidance system for aerial bombs.
Biden had held up the JDAM sale after the Israeli army invaded Rafah, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
On Saturday, the Israeli military bombed a school and mosque with at least one American-made guided bomb, killing 93 people at dawn prayers. Israel claims that the attack killed 31 militants; the nonprofit Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and Al Jazeera report that several of the “militants” on Israel’s list were either people who had died several days before or had no Hamas ties.
Last month, Israeli forces dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs with JDAM kits on a tent city, killing Hamas commander Mohammad Deif along with 90 bystanders.
In addition to freeing up more money and munitions, the Biden administration moved to lift restrictions on how Israel can use this aid. A rule known as the Leahy Law forbids U.S. military aid from going to human rights abusers. In April 2024, the U.S. State Department announced a Leahy investigation into Israel’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
Netzah Yehuda had been accused of abusing Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including Palestinian-American retiree Omar Assad, who died in their custody in January 2022. No soldiers were charged in connection with Assad’s death. In October 2021, Israeli police arrested four Netzah Yehuda troops for sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee; one soldier pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison.
The Israeli government opposed any kind of “sanctions” on soldiers who are “fighting terrorist monsters.” So did Republicans in Congress. Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) called the investigation “an effort by President Biden to appease Israel’s enemies, including the antisemitic mobs terrorizing college campuses across America.”
On Friday, the State Department said that Israel had “effectively remediated” the problems with Netzah Yehuda by giving the troops a “two-week educational seminar.” The unit is now free to continue receiving weapons paid for by the American taxpayer.
Kudos to MTG. There needs to be open debate about this. Good to see most Freepers are supporting MTG as she simply follows Trump’s stated promise of putting America first and avoiding foreign wars. It is right for elected Republicans to civilly disagree with Trump as in this case and also as Thomas Massie did on the budget. For the Republican Party to succeed it needs to be a party of the people, following the ideas of the Founders. This means it is not a “personality cult” but rather a party following the stated MAGA ideas that Trump communicated so well. New wars is not one of those. Neither is turning a foreign friend into a “decider” of our foreign policy. Israel would be better served by not demanding our taxpayer support and military backing, but instead figuring out how to peacefully live in its own neighborhood, without decades of non-stop wars.
Good job MTG.
I’m tossed on this one. Even my anti-foreign war hero Ron Paul stated a couple times that there are times when we will indeed be required to just go stomp them and get it over with and then come back home. The Houthis is one of those times... But it should never be turned into a perpetual never ending war.
The Houthis are a problem for the whole globe not just us. They and Iran are attempting to be controlling gatekeepers of the Suez canal. This is a problem for all Maritime traffic through the straight of Hormuz.
“the Houthis hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea and have since attacked at least thirty-three others with drones, missiles, and speed boats as of late January 2024. As a result, major shipping companies have stopped using the Red Sea—through which almost 15 percent of global seaborne trade passes—and have rerouted to take longer and costlier journeys around Southern Africa instead. The situation has resulted in heightened shipping and insurance costs, stoking fears of a renewed cost-of-living crisis. In response to the consistent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.”
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yemen
But Palestine is Israel’s problem, not ours. But if we can put a dent in Iran’s support of Hamas while with dealing with the Houthis in Yemen why not? But we should stay out of the middle of the war in Palestine.
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