Posted on 06/18/2024 10:35:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video statement Tuesday urging the U.S. to stop withholding weapons and ammunition from Israel.
In May, the Biden administration confirmed that it was withholding heavy precision bombs from Israel in protest against Israel’s decision to enter the southern Gaza town of Rafah to fight the last remaining Hamas battalions.
As a result, Israel was forced to send troops into potentially booby-trapped buildings rather than bombing them.
The White House said it was concerned about Palestinian civilian casualties, but a million civilians left Rafah.
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Beelzebama has always liked it both ways! Just ask Big Mike!
Keep parroting Biden’s line.
Israel uses money given to it by the USA to ‘purchase’ our weapons.
Israel is a welfare state
Worse is coming for Israel.
We stick it to Israel’s because some kids protest and a Palestinian friendly media runs some sob stories on TV in an election year.
Once again we break a treaty, and of course folks will deny it, or we won’t even talk about it.
We have a out 42 various memoranda of understanding/agreement and formal treaties with Israel regarding security / defense:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/formal-agreements-between-us-and-israel
Key is:
Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (1991 and 1952)
We basically promised them that we’d back them up materially; you know, like we’re doing with Ukraine but have no such agreement with.
In Ukraine we were provoking the situation with a massive influx of mercenaries. 12 CIA bases operating against Russia. Special Forces training whack jobs that were oppressing ethnic Russians in the East of Ukraine. Finally the proverbial straw which broke the camels back, our NATO east expansion. Just saying “unprovoked” in our MSM repeatedly doesn’t make it so.
It is Israel that was attacked unprovoked. It is Israel where their enemy killed 1,200 civilians and took nearly 400 hostages in their attack. It is Israel that is facing an enemy using its own people and protected sites (religious, hospital, schools) as shields, fighting a guerilla war. It is Israel facing an enemy committed to their destruction, “from the river to the sea” doesn’t leave much of Israel. Funny thing is, Israel is a democracy, they are a sovereign nation, and Ukraine only on paper.
But none of this matters.
It is Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar that have a FAR greater economic value to us as markets for export, but also because these nations are major oil producers.
These nations have lobbying efforts in the US that combined is larger than that of Israel which is always used as an example of how influential lobbying can be, example: AIPAC.
The Arab and Muslim vote in the US and Europe is as large or larger than than of the Jewish vote and growing, fast.
Saudi Arabia is the nation around which our Middle East strategy is based, not Israel.
The Arab and Muslim communities are on certain issues highly homogenous and fervent and you have their voice in US Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_and_Middle_Eastern_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress
***Point being: the Israel’s should expect us to abandon them, break more promises made in the future, etc. This is just a begining of a new era.
All the “democracy, human rights, sovereignty, WMD and terrorism” babble is junk. These are the feel good rationalizations for the masses.
It’s simple economic and political interests which really steer where this ship is heading. Regards our policies in the Middle East, those interests are that the Arab and Muslim perspectives will gain in influence, and Israel will be under more pressure as our politicians pretend to care about “democracy human rights, sovereignty, terrorism and/or WMD.”
Biden, the US Idiot in Charge told Ukraine to fire US weapons
into Russia. Biden will instigate a Nuke War if he is not controlled 24/7.
Bibi has every right to be ticked off at Biden.
Oh, so now you’re a Bibi expert? You know nothing.
President Retard helping his terrorist buddies to keep the wars going
No precision bombs from the United States? Fine, carpet bombing will commence in 3, 2, 1…
And your beloved Ukraine ISN’T a welfare state? You have been demanding that the US sacrifice EVERYTHING we have, including all weapons, money, etc. for YOUR country and Saint Zelensky.
Hypocrisy abounds…
Yes, the MIC is presently at near historical lows since WW2, for moneys from the US govt. The only time it was lower was a couple years during Clinton’s “peace dividend”. That worked out so well. /s
I think we have to keep a couple things in mind here:
1) There are strong pro-Hamas / anti-Israel elements in the Democratic Party, and surely some of those in the Biden Administration. Parts of the bureaucracy behind getting weapons sent may be getting seemingly subtle but actually significant hindrances and delays deliberately effected.
2) The Biden Administration proved utterly incompetent in getting weapons Ukraine needed for what was supposed to be its 2023 summer offensive to Ukraine on time. That was NOT a matter of lack of funding at the time, nor was it opposition anywhere in the Administration, so far as I can tell, to sending weapons we actually said we were going to send.
Either or both of these may be in play. I would guess both. Biden’s mixed messages and lack of real leadership surely do not help.
The Hypocrisy is yours.
Netanyahu wants his war to save him from jail. This is Bibi’s war of choice. He WANTS this war.
Zelensky doesn’t want putin’s war against him.
Sure US arms manufacturers are super rich...
AND Israel is a welfare state.
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