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Posted on 09/15/2026 5:00:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
The Trump administration has approved a $2.8 billion sale of heavy bombs to Israel, according to a U.S. official, in what would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions there even as American public support for the country declines.
The proposed sale would include 40,000 one-ton bombs whose use by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon has drawn international anger because of the civilian harm caused by their wide blast radius.
Human rights groups and some foreign governments have condemned Israel for dropping the giant munitions in densely populated areas, sometimes killing dozens of civilians in strikes targeting just one individual.
The package would include 20,000 each of America’s 2,000-pound MK-84 and BLU-117 bombs. It would also provide Israel with 20,000 bunker-busting I-2000 penetrator warheads, which explode on delay after smashing through an outer surface like soil, rock or concrete. The plan was reported earlier by The Washington Post.
The State Department recently sent the proposed deal to two congressional committees to get informal approval, the U.S. official said.
Production and delivery of the munitions usually takes months or years, but there are ways to expedite the process.
In mid-2024, the Biden administration paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel because of concern about their use in crowded civilian areas. President Trump allowed the shipment to proceed days after taking office last January.
Then in February, the Trump administration agreed to sell roughly $2.7 billion in munitions to Israel, a package that included 35,000 of the one-ton MK-84 and BLU-117 bombs.
While congressional leaders can tell the Trump administration that they oppose the deal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio can exercise emergency powers to proceed with the sale regardless, as he has done repeatedly, or just say he...
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GREAT!
Everything should be sale. No more aid or loans.
Thought they were all gone ? LOL
Of course there’s no mention of Israel’s precise bombing that takes out a single apartment in a highrise building without harming anything/anybody else.
I notice the Slimes say NOTHING when Iran slaughtered 40,000 of their own people..crickets from the slimes, crickets
“”I notice the Slimes say NOTHING when Iran slaughtered 40,000 of their own people..crickets from the slimes, crickets””
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Yeah, funny how the so-called “human/civil rights leftists” didn’t seem to care when Iran mowed down and slaughtered their own civilian population for protesting... effectively violating their ‘civil rights’. I guess some animals are more equal than others with the selectively outraged American leftists.
Of course not, want to know why..because the left and Iran are aligned with first of all, their hatred of Jews and Israel, that is the main thing that binds them together..and secondly, the left wont admit it, but they like the fact that Iran controls their people, say something the regime doesnt like, you get a bullet in the head..ironic since the left loves calling Trump a dictator but they love dictators that do their bidding
“”...but they like the fact that Iran controls their people, say something the regime doesnt like, you get a bullet in the head..ironic since the left loves calling Trump a dictator but they love dictators that do their bidding””
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Oh, make no mistake. Most of the hard-core commies now running the Democrat Party would have all of us in gulags or death camps so fast our heads would spin. That is... if they didn’t opt, instead, to mow us all down like Iran did their “protestors”. Never underestimate the ability and willingness of the radical left to resort to bloodshed to get, regain or retain the power that they crave and worship.
Of course they would, didnt one woman running for congress I Forgot from where say that she wants to put all Trump supporters in Concentration camps and also she would like a terrorist attack to happen in Louisiana or Alabama where all the “Stupid Trump supporters live” notice not a peep from the media regarding that
“”Of course they would, didnt one woman running for congress I Forgot from where say that she wants to put all Trump supporters in Concentration camps and also she would like a terrorist attack to happen in Louisiana or Alabama where all the “Stupid Trump supporters live” notice not a peep from the media regarding that””
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Yes, and she is one of the stupid ones that the left will ... um... ‘replace’. They’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud...until they get or have the absolute power to do what they want to do. She will be corrected.
More bang for the buck is always good and great.
This is as bad as that time in WW2 when we armed the British. /nyt
I’d be curious to know why so many 1-ton Mk-84s when the US’s “default” aerial bomb is the 500-lb Mk-82.
Is judge Boasberg okay with this, or just busy writing his denial?
Hezbollah and Iran have lots of Bunkers, just look at what Hamas did in Gaza.
To hear the Brits tell it the moment the shooting started we should have jumped right in.
Better penetration.
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