It’s especially unconscionable because the limit before needing to seek congressional authorisation was raised and transactions to Israel were deliberately kept below the reporting limit, so the headline should read “Biden Has Deceptively Snuck Through 100+ Arms Sales to Israel in Just Five Months”.
It’s a stupid gimmick - just like air drops. If the US wanted it could go and open the border crossings for aid. Hundreds of lorries a day are required. Not doing that reveals the truth - starving mainly innocent Palestinians.
I wonder what the Israeli contingency plan is if the US were to revoke military aid?
It’s a major national security concern for them, and a lot of military leaders with clout are dependent on that aid. They must have some sort of PR / Psyop operation ready to drop in such an event.
I agree, but you cant change the past, and this seems like a good step in the right direction for the future. We cant afford to look our gift horses in the mouths (this idiom doesnt work very well when pluralized)
Pushing some agenda is the only benefit it could get is getting by supporting either side, they’re both unprofitable; one’s poor and the other only accepts weapon donations.
Edit: Getting oil from naval wells also makes some sense as an explanation.
My first thought also. Developing the infrastructure to exploit natural resources under the cover of providing humanitarian aid, while simultaneously supplying the weapons that create the need for humanitarian aid.
It’s not like that happened in every* other Arab nation.
*: You could argue some aren’t. For most of them natural resources were exploited using the corrupted puppets making all of the Arab nations’ governments.
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