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US envoy denies ties with Israel have changed: Only ‘1 set of munitions’ held back
Times of Israel ^ | 5/13/2024 | TOI STAFF

Posted on 05/13/2024 10:38:41 AM PDT by Vendome

(Screenshot: Channel 12) US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew insisted Sunday evening that “fundamentally, nothing has changed in the basic relationship” between Israel and the US — despite the decision last week by US President Joe Biden’s administration to delay a shipment of high-payload bombs to Israel, and Biden’s declaration that he would not supply offensive weapons to Israel for a major IDF offensive affecting population centers in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

Noting that military aid from Washington to Jerusalem has increased since war erupted in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, Lew stressed in a Channel 12 interview that only “one set of munitions” had been held back, and that “everything else keeps flowing.”

Asked about Biden’s stated intention not to supply offensive weapons to Israel “if they go [into] these population centers,” Lew replied: “What the president said is that he doesn’t think it is a good idea to have a massive ground campaign in a heavily populated area. But he specifically said that 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs shouldn’t be used in that setting.”

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I never believed the BS the news media, even those on our were spewing.

claiming to hold back munitions publicly garnered some muzzie love but, the reality is they aren't used often in that environment anyway.

The administration has to publicly preen and display their social justice bonafides, while continuing the flow of arms authorized by congress.

Hamas should just gather everyone up and drink the koolaide.

It'll be over faster and on their terms.

your mileage may vary

1 posted on 05/13/2024 10:38:41 AM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Biden has to pick a side, the Jews or the terrorist musloids. He can’t have it both ways. Sorry.


2 posted on 05/13/2024 10:42:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Vendome

Hamas uses human shields including hostages (with a few American hostages) and then go into hospitals or largely populated areas like now. Then wait for their traitorous Biden Dem DC crowd to cut off aid to Israel so as not to allow IDF to battle terrorists in populated areas. Perfect plan.

There is no way to have a war without anyone but combatants killed or injured. It isn’t a set piece battle like some uniformed British soldiers in a line squaring off in an empty field against an enemy. As the British expected in fighting the Swamp Fox and others in 1776.

And where was all the caring when terrorists invaded Israel on the Sabbath and ruthlessly murdered and abducted Israeli noncombatants in their homes?


3 posted on 05/13/2024 10:46:09 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: MtnClimber

True, Biden shades the meanings and uses nuances from his handlers to give mixed signals. Wants cheers and pats on his scrawny back for supporting Israel in an “ironclad” way. Then preens for the Arab voters like the Tlaib district in Michigan by trashing Israel. Then back to bragging about being a pal of Israel for years.

Cannot have it both ways.


4 posted on 05/13/2024 10:49:42 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Biden has a head and muslims in Dearborn have knives. I know which side he will eventually support.


5 posted on 05/13/2024 10:54:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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With FJB and his administration Israel just has another enemy in reality…this ‘administration’ supports terrorists and terror states…


6 posted on 05/13/2024 11:14:38 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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Oh, and since holding back any at all is a violation of congressional orders, why even that one?


7 posted on 05/13/2024 11:18:05 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Vendome

I believe what Obiden Admin is doing is trying to force a Two State Solution on Israel. They must keep Israel dependent on the US because if Israel wipes out Hamas, they can concentrate on Hezbolla next, then Iran. The two state Solution is nothing but the Sykes Picot partition plan with some new lipstick on it. It would never work, but it was designed that way.


8 posted on 05/13/2024 12:06:08 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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I’ll go with the truth being in the middle.

They truly enriched Iran by: climate juiced energy prices, $26billion unfrozen and $9billion in aid.

Behind contrived war to line their own pockets, I see little motivation to enrich Iran and Russia for that matter.

Enriching themselves took precedent over potential WWIII-
I’m guessi8ng that it takes precedent over political preening.


9 posted on 05/13/2024 12:09:17 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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They can’t force two state solution

Israel has agreed to it over and over since Oslo

Fauxhistinians continues to find non-starter excuses why they can’t accept

Moreover they have explicitly announced they aren’t interested in living side by side with Israel or even one Jew.

Their stated mission is the destruction of Israel and then hunt every Jew left on the planet


10 posted on 05/13/2024 12:36:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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President Retard is trying to save his HamAss buddies


11 posted on 05/13/2024 12:48:53 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Vendome

Yes.


12 posted on 05/13/2024 5:20:05 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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