Posted on 01/16/2025 5:09:11 AM PST by V_TWIN
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that the long-awaited cease-fire deal is on hold because of a “last minute crisis” — as Israel shared a new video of Hamas boasting of its “pride” at the Oct. 7 terror attack and threats of ongoing violence.
Netanyahu delayed his Cabinet voting Thursday on approving the historic deal, accusing Hamas of deserting parts of it while trying to “extort last-minute concessions.”
In part, that included the terror group now objecting to a part of the agreement that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders.
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Brandon just had to run out and try to take credit.....now looks foolish
Bet on it.
Make the deal. But state very publicly: one single rocket, one single knife-attack, one bomb, one single attack of any kind, anywhere, at any time and the deal is off and the IAF returns.
Part of the problem with any ‘deal’ in Gaza is not all the groups allied are under one command. Several disparate groups hold hostages and they have their own agendas and will not give up their hostages. These groups are more violent that HAMAS as a whole and will splinter off and go back to fighting Israel................
brandon has always looked foolish (among other things). This criminal fool is THE worst president ever.
Net. Is choosing poorly here. He should be very pro peace. Mr. Trump will not regard him highly. Net. Is uniquely unpopular amongst the usual Israel fans and Mr. Trump might be his best friend in DC.
The Hamas negotiator in Qatar should be exterminated. He has no right to continue living
Biden’s US military aid for Israel tops $17.9 billion since Oct. 7, 2024
Most US tax dollars sent in one year. Estimated since Israel does not disclose US aid totals
pbs.com, Oct 7, 2024 1:43 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released Monday on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, researchers said in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.
The report — completed before Israel opened a second front, this one against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, in late September — is one of the first tallies of estimated U.S. costs as the Biden administration backs Israel in its conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and seeks to contain hostilities by Iran-allied armed groups in the region.
READ MORE: As Israel marks a year since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, war rages on six fronts
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed nearly 42,000 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count. At least 1,400 people in Lebanon, including Hezbollah fighters and civilians, have been killed since Israel greatly expanded its strikes in that country in late September.
The financial costs were calculated by Linda J. Bilmes, a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, who has assessed the full costs of U.S. wars since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and fellow researchers William D. Hartung and Stephen Semler.
Here’s a look at where some of the U.S. taxpayer money went:
Record military aid to Israel
Israel — a protege of the United States since its 1948 founding — is the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid in history, getting $251.2 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1959, the report says.
Even so, the $17.9 billion spent since Oct. 7, 2023, in inflation-adjusted dollars, is by far the most military aid sent to Israel in one year. The U.S. committed to providing billions in military assistance to Israel and Egypt each year when they signed their 1979 U.S.-brokered peace treaty, and an agreement since the Obama administration set the annual amount for Israel at $3.8 billion through 2028.
The U.S. aid since the Gaza war started includes military financing, arms sales, at least $4.4 billion in drawdowns from U.S. stockpiles and hand-me-downs of used equipment.
Much of the U.S. weapons delivered in the year were munitions, from artillery shells to 2,000-pound bunker-busters and precision-guided bombs. Expenditures range from $4 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems to cash for rifles and jet fuel, the study says.
Unlike the United States’ publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, it was impossible to get the full details of what the U.S. has shipped Israel since last Oct. 7, so the $17.9 billion for the year is a partial figure, the researchers said. They cited Biden administration “efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering.”
Funding during a war has exacted a heavy toll on civilians and divided Americans during the presidential campaign. But support for Israel has long carried weight in U.S. politics, and Biden said Friday that “no administration has helped Israel more than I have.”
The deal should be unconditional release or else
Hmmm...... now that is an interesting statement.
I’m forced to wonder if the holders and locations of the hostages are known? The hostages aren’t really savable.
>>”WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East...”
Uhh, no. The Hamas terror attack that killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians is what led to escalating conflict around the Middle East (not to mention shelling of northern Israel by Iranian proxy Hezbollah, Iranian sponsored attacks on international shipping by the Houthis and Turkish sponsored escalation of civil war in Syria.)
There is only one way to end Islamists (Hamas, Hezbollah, Turkish Jihadi’s and etc). Total annihilation.
I’m mad that he has fought a half wars incredible the beginning. He messed up.
Sorry, he never should have fought a half war.
It’s not surprising that HAMAS would do this. It’s what they always do.
Oh I’m not surprised in the least......it is hilarious though that taterhead was tripping all over himself to get to a microphone yesterday to steal the credit and now it may fall apart......that brickhead couldn’t look more foolish if he tried.
Al shitZeera’s Qatar is part of the problem, playing “the nice guy” in all of this, has its interest in Hamas being kept in power.
Yep - and they’ve been touting how they brokered a deal - it’s the Blinken effect in action...
Then all Hell will break loose for Hamas and Iran.
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