Falcon29
Elite Member
The US government has made over a 100 military supply deliveries to Israel for its genocide on Gaza. Most of the details are not released to the public. And they are most certainly not 'sales'. Israel does not pay for them. American taxpayers do. Look at the quotes in the article. It suggests Israel did not have the capability to do what it did to Gaza.
What that means is Israel's entire arsenal which was intended to fight multiple nations, was all dropped on Gaza. Including bunker buster munitions which are used for terror and mass murder effect in Gaza. And have no military purpose to be used in Gaza. Israel not only used it's entire arsenal, the US refilled it over a 100 times to unload its whole arsenal a 100 times over to carpet bomb and wipe out Gaza. It was arming them to grant them the capacity to commit genocide.
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But in the case of the 100 other transactions, known in government-speak as Foreign Military Sales or FMS, the weapons transfers were processed without any public debate because each fell under a specific dollar amount that requires the executive branch to individually notify Congress, according to U.S. officials and lawmakers who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter.
Taken together, the weapons packages amount to a massive transfer of firepower at a time when senior U.S. officials have complained that Israeli officials have fallen short on their appeals to limit civilian casualties, allow more aid into Gaza and refrain from rhetoric calling for the permanent displacement of Palestinians.
“That’s an extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this level of U.S. support,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior Biden administration official and current president of Refugees International.
What that means is Israel's entire arsenal which was intended to fight multiple nations, was all dropped on Gaza. Including bunker buster munitions which are used for terror and mass murder effect in Gaza. And have no military purpose to be used in Gaza. Israel not only used it's entire arsenal, the US refilled it over a 100 times to unload its whole arsenal a 100 times over to carpet bomb and wipe out Gaza. It was arming them to grant them the capacity to commit genocide.
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But in the case of the 100 other transactions, known in government-speak as Foreign Military Sales or FMS, the weapons transfers were processed without any public debate because each fell under a specific dollar amount that requires the executive branch to individually notify Congress, according to U.S. officials and lawmakers who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter.
Taken together, the weapons packages amount to a massive transfer of firepower at a time when senior U.S. officials have complained that Israeli officials have fallen short on their appeals to limit civilian casualties, allow more aid into Gaza and refrain from rhetoric calling for the permanent displacement of Palestinians.
“That’s an extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this level of U.S. support,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior Biden administration official and current president of Refugees International.
