Gaza War Turns Spotlight on Long Pipeline of U.S. Weapons to Israel

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In the fall of 2016, the Obama administration sealed a major military agreement with Israel that committed the United States to giving the country $38 billion in arms over 10 years.

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At the time, the agreement was uncontroversial. It was a period of relative calm for Israel, and few officials in Washington expressed concern about how the American arms might one day be used.

Now that military aid package, which guarantees Israel $3.3 billion per year to buy weapons, along with another $500 million annually for missile defense, has become a flashpoint for the Biden administration. A vocal minority of lawmakers in Congress backed by liberal activists are demanding that President Biden restrict or even halt arms shipments to Israel because of its military campaign in Gaza.

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Does this agreement not include any lines of illegal use of weapons making it void? Is that not standard to include some legalese of "no genocide"?

Last Monday, the U.S. State Department deemed Israel in compliance with President Biden’s landmark national security memorandum issued in February. That memorandum required that recipients of U.S. weapons must demonstrate compliance with international law, and that they not interfere with or block the delivery of humanitarian aid.

The State Department made this determination despite all of the credible evidence to the contrary. More than a million starving civilians in Gaza — possibly 90 percent of its remaining population — would beg to differ. And every aid agency working inside Gaza testifies to the unfolding catastrophe there.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4577306-israel-is-not-in-compliance-so-stop-giving-it-aid/

Kind of a moot point since there's no genocide going on.

Now if you want to talk about war crimes, there's hostages that are currently being raped to death in Gaza.

Panel of international law judges: this is plausibly a genocide.

u/zerog_bandit: no. also, why are you talking about the 15k dead children instead of the 100 hostages?

there's hostages that are currently being raped to death in Gaza.

By the IDF?

All of your comments are pro Israel. Its the only thing on the profile.