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2023-12-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Sec of State Blinken bypasses congressional review for month’s second fast-tracked arms sale to Israel
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[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
 ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
fast-tracked the sale of munitions to Israel on Friday, bypassing congressional review over weapons being sent to Jerusalem for its war against Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
for the second time this month.
The move suggested that growing discomfort in Washington with Israel’s conduct is not yet influencing its near-daily supply of weapons used by the IDF to prosecute the war.
Explaining Blinken’s latest decision to waive congressional review, the US State Department said that the secretary of state determined that an emergency exists that required the immediate sale of 155 millimeter artillery shells and related equipment to Israel.
The State Department said Israel requested that fuzes, primers and charges be included in a previous request for the 155 mm shells. The estimated total value of the sale was $147.5 million.
Blinken used the same emergency authority to fast-track the sale of $106 million in roughly 14,000 tank shells to Israel on December 9.
The State Department sought to counter potential criticism of the sale on human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
grounds by saying it was in constant touch with Israel to emphasize the importance of minimizing civilian casualties.
Biden officials have also intensified their calls for Israel to scale back the IDF’s high-intensity fighting in recent weeks.
"We continue to strongly emphasize to the government of Israel that they must not only comply with international humanitarian law, but also take every feasible step to prevent harm to civilians," the State Department said Friday.
"Hamas hides behind civilians and has embedded itself among the civilian population, but that does not lessen Israel’s responsibility and strategic imperative to distinguish between civilians and Hamas bully boyz as it conducts its military operations," the department said. "This type of campaign can only be won by protecting civilians."
Bypassing Congress with emergency determinations for arms sales is an unusual step that has in the past met resistance from politicians, who normally have a period of time to weigh in on proposed weapons transfers and, in some cases, block them.
The US and Israel have maintained an understanding whereby Washington continues to provide backing for Israel’s war against Hamas, while Jerusalem takes steps to ensure that humanitarian aid into Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
can surge in parallel, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel earlier this month.
But aid delivery in the month since a seven-day truce has been limited, with Israel blaming UN and Egyptian authorities for failing to keep up with its pace of inspections, while the UN insists that substantial aid cannot be safely delivered as long as the fighting continues.
Just 81 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza through Israel’s Kerem Shalom and Egypt’s Rafah crossings on Friday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Kerem Shalom had been closed for three days until today due to what OCHA says were security incidents, including an IDF dronezap, the seizure of aid by desperate locals and unannounced and uncoordinated prisoner and casualty transfers from Israel.
"The volume of aid remains woefully inadequate," OCHA said in a statement.
Israel reopened its Kerem Shalom Crossing on December 17 for aid to enter Gaza directly from Israel for the first time since the war’s outbreak.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the move hasn’t led to the desired increase in aid delivery.
Two hundred trucks entered Gaza each day of last month’s week-long truce. The daily figure has not come close to that number since. Before the war and the massive humanitarian crisis that it has sparked, roughly 500 trucks of aid were entering Gaza each day. 
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