The United States in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel even as it publicly expresses concerns about an anticipated military offensive in Rafah, The Washington Post reported Friday.
| Good to know. On what sort of timing? (Trust but verify, donchaknow.) |
Washington gives $3.8 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, its longtime ally. The US has been rushing air defenses and munitions to Israel as it fights against Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, in Gaza, but some Democrats and Arab American groups have criticized the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
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...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed expertsaffiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
’s steadfast support of Israel, and called for leveraging military aid.
"We have continued to support Israel’s right to defend itself," a White House official told The Washington Post. "Conditioning aid has not been our policy."
| Not America’s, no. But the Biden administration has recently been echoing the far left, Jew/Israel-hating wing of the Democratic party, not to mention CAIR, et al, and tqlking loudly about thinking about conditioning aid and whether, indeed Israel does have the right to defend itself against rampaging Palestinians, whom they call the colonized People of Color — even though Israelis and Palestinians are exactly the same shade of suntan. And some of both, indeed, have both blond hair and blue eyes, though for exactly the opposite reasons. |
This assurance came last week via a "credible high-level official who has the ability and authority to make decisions and commitments about the issues at the heart of the assurances," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Monday, referring to the letter sent by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
"These assurances are prospective, but of course, our view of them is informed by our ongoing assessments of Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza," Miller said during a press briefing.
"We’ve had ongoing assessments of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law. We have not found them to be in violation, either when it comes to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance. We view those assurances through that ongoing work we have done," he said.
The State Department has until May 8 to provide Congress with a report on Israel’s compliance with the memo.
The announcement came on the same day that the US abstained from a vote at the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the hostages taken on October 7, without linking the two issues. The resolution, backed by Russia and China, passed with 14 votes.
The vote sparked a spat with Israel, which argued that its passage would make Hamas more obstinate in truce talks in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also canceled a planned trip to Washington by his top aides to discuss plans for an offensive in the Gaza city of Rafah. Jerusalem has since agreed to reschedule that meeting.
The United States’ top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon it has asked for, in part because some of it could affect the US military’s readiness and there were capacity limitations.
"Although we’ve been supporting them with capability, they’ve not received everything they’ve asked for," said Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Some of that is because they’ve asked for stuff that we either don’t have the capacity to provide or not willing to provide, not right now," Brown added, while speaking at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
A spokesperson for Brown later on Thursday said his comments were in reference to "a standard practice before providing military aid to any of our allies and partners."
Tensions have been escalating over Israel’s plans for a large-scale ground operation in the southern Gaza city, which is both Hamas’s last major stronghold in the Strip and where over a million Gazooks displaced by the fighting are now located.
Washington and Jerusalem have also disagreed on the flow of humanitarian aid
to Gaza, with Israel blaming the ailing humanitarian situation on aid agencies’ failure to distribute supplies, and on Hamas and gangs who have looted trucks entering the Gaza Strip.The White House has shown increasing willingness in recent months to voice dissatisfaction with Israel over civilian casualties in Gaza and the humanitarian situation there, including adopting a harsher tone.