The day after Super Tuesday when 16 states voted in primaries and state elections, the story has come out today that the US has sent over 100 shipments of weapons to Israel. The Biden administration kept the monetary amount under a set guideline so that they did not have to receive approval from Congress or make the sale to Israel public. So far the White House has only admitted to two sales of arms to Israel. This is beyond calculated. Biden did not want this to be public knowledge at all.
It is very unfortunate that voters did not have this information going into the primaries yesterday. The depth of Biden’s deceptions, lies, and underhanded dealings are part of his modus operandi. For voters who are on the fence about Biden, the knowledge that the president is purposely hiding arms deals from Congress and the American people would affect their vote because they might then realize that this is a pattern for Biden.
How is this even possible? Where are the checks and balances in our system which should make all arms sales approved by Congress no matter how large or small?
A handful of US elected officials are stirring from their political party stupor and questioning Biden on any further sales of arms to Israel due to the significant loss of innocent Palestinians lives and the immense suffering in Gaza. The public is questioning Biden on any further sales of arms to Israel. The response from the White House is that Israel is allowed to defend itself from the threat of Hamas which the White House claims is an active threat for Israel despite the fact that no one in Israel has been killed since the attack on October 7.
Maybe it is the reality that they are complicit in war crimes and genocide that is worrying those few who are bringing the valid quandary of arming Israel?
The death toll in Gaza is over 30,000 Palestinians killed.
Israel would not have been able to kill so many and destroy so much of Gaza without these weapons and arms that the US provided and then hid from the public.
Oh, but of course the Biden administration is claiming this they are not acting nefariously but following the guidelines that Congress has set and informing members of Congress of Israeli arms deals.
Which is it then? Has Congress been aware of all of these deals and now that this has come to light they are playing dumb? Or, has Biden not informed members of Congress and they are outright lying to save face? Where the blame lays needs to be clear because either the president is lying to us, or the president and Congress are lying to us over their role and knowledge of arms sales to Israel.
If the White House is so transparent like they are claiming, then why not make these arms sales public?
If Senators of Representatives knew of these arms deals with Israel, they need to come clean now. Every voter should know if the person they voted for had direct knowledge of the US providing weapons for a genocide and whether that candidate green-lighted this war crime.
Matt Miller, a state department spokesperson, admitted to over 200 arms deals with Israel since the beginning of the war on Gaza. That sheer amount of arms makes the US just as complicit in the deaths of Palestinians as Israel because if these arms transfers never occurred, this war would have a different outcome right now and thousands of Palestinians would not have died.
It’s horrible to realize that the US government sees fit to participate in a genocide, use the money of taxpayers to fund the genocide, and then silence and berate citizens who are against our role and participation in massacring Palestinians. They hide the truth from the public and when the truth comes to light, they state that it is all legal.
How is this legal? How is this moral? How is this even happening?
Biden says he is concerned over the loss of Palestinian lives, but sends more bombs. Biden says he wants more aid to enter Gaza, but sends more bombs. Biden says he has warned Israel of their attacks, but sends more bombs.
Everything Biden says is contradictory to what he does, which is to further arms Israel which allows for the horrific level of death and obliteration of the Gaza. This is why Biden hid these arms transfers from the public because if we knew how deeply involved the US government is in the war, no one would support them or trust them. Not that anyone would have or should have trusted the Biden administration even without this knowledge, this betrayal is not shocking because they have proven to be raging liars, but it is more evidence that Biden cannot ever be trusted or any person within his administration.
We have to vote them all out. We have to change our system.
From the river to the sea, may Palestine be free. May the whole world be free.
Protest
Vote 3rd party
Disrupt everything
Boycott
BE UNGOVERNABLE
Demand sanctions and embargoes for Israel, US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia
Please extend your energy to other countries and people facing atrocities and genocide- Sudan, Congo, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, and the Uyghurs.
Articles for reference:
Washington Post: US floods arms into Israel despite mounting alarm over war’s conduct
The Guardian: US uses loophole to keep 100 arms sales to Israel under the radar amid Gaza war- report