The US government is not, but also is, going to transfer arms to Israel, and secretly sending weapons without congressional approval. Yes, all of that is counterintuitive, contradictory, and deceitful. Let’s break this all down so the game the US government is playing can be explained.
The Biden administration has stated that they are holding back two shipments of bombs to Israel.
The US not sending these bombs will not affect Israel’s genocide in Gaza because there has been an extremely large number of arms transfers to Israel already, so Israel has a large stockpile and are also supplied by Germany, UK, Australia, France, and several other countries.
Biden wants to regain some voters so the refusal to transfer two bomb shipments is all a ploy to look like he is more to the left than Biden actually is. Vowing to veto the GOP bill that would force arms shipments to Israel is also playing into that narrative.
The White House has affirmed that the administrations is "continuing to send military assistance and we will ensure that Israel receives the full amount provided in the supplemental.” So they are sending weapons to Israel, just not bombs at the moment. This is a performative show so that Biden looks like he is coming down on Israel, when in actuality, nothing has changed. They are not disclosing these arms transfers to congress or making this information public knowledge, just like the news was recently released that the Biden administration has been covertly transferring a significant number of arms to Israel and not disclosing any of their actions.
House GOP members are pushing a bill to be passed that would grease the wheels of weapons transfers to Israel. Many Democrats are supporting the GOP bill in the House because they are no different than the Republicans. Biden opposes this bill because he is already transferring arms to Israel because of the loophole he has already been using for months and sending bombs and weapons to Israel without congressional or public knowledge. To the White House, this bill gets in the way of what they are already doing and will end up making them disclose all the arms they are sending to the IDF because this bill has economic consequences if arms are not sent to the IDF and then the Biden administration would be forced to make public all the arms that they are actually sending.
While Biden might want to appear like he is not transferring weapons for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, they have also announced a $1 billion weapons deal for Israel that Biden and the Israeli government have agreed upon. While the White House might say things like these arms would not be sent to Israel for years to come, is untrue because they can, and have, expedited munitions to Israel foregoing the necessary international law requirements to ensure the weapons are not used for war crimes.
Don’t forget that Israel is also receiving $26 billion from the recently passed foreign aid bill.
If we want this genocide to end, we have to continue to protest, boycott, demand sanctions and embargoes, and raise our voices for a free Palestine.
Vote these oppressors out of office and vote 3rd party. US elected officials cannot be trusted in a place of power.
Your representatives should listen to their constituents and not ignore or attack them. If they cannot listen to constituents who want to protect human rights, those elected officials do not stand for human rights and should not be in office. Those are oppressors and they must go.
No country should be sending arms to Israel, and any country that does is complicit in genocide. Those officials should be sent to The Hague as the war criminals that they are.
From the river to the sea, may Palestine be free. May the whole world be free.
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Articles for reference. Please read and share.
AP: Israel- Hamas war: Biden is sending $1 billion in new weapons package to Israel, aides say
ABC: House GOP pushes bill to force Biden to continue weapons transfers to Israel