For as long as Joe Biden has been in politics, he’s kept his hand in the pockets of the Israel lobby. As president, the man who once declared that “you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist” has practiced what he has preached by providing Israel with a whopping $17.9 billion dollars in military aid since the outbreak of the war in Gaza. Although Biden has continued his staunch support of Israel, the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza has brought pause to his the core tenet of his woeful foreign policy. The strongest sign of a change in the tenor of the Biden administration’s support for Israel has emerged as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and Secretary Of Defense Lloyd Austin have threatened to implement an arms embargo over Israel if the country does not take steps to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱Secretary of State Blinken & Secretary of Defense Austin sent a letter on Monday to Israel demanding it takes steps within 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza in order to avoid consequences in U.S. law for U.S. milirary aid to Israel. See letter here: pic.twitter.com/N9DDMqsL7u— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) October 15, 2024
In a letter addressed to Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer on October 13th, Blinken and Austin conveyed their “deep concern over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza in recent weeks” as the war has passed its one-year anniversary.
political maneuvering. we have troops there right now and are sending more soon. anything winkin’ bliken says is obscuration from the facts. Just sent 48 THAADS.
Looking a lot like Sadam Hussein again. Hmm. Is Isreal the Biden-Harris Iraq? Well BiBi does have WMDs. Given Trump wins he will settle things in one day. No more aid, done.
The State Department has no room to talk. The US is responsible for a couple hundred thousand dead civilians in Iraq. We bombed all of their infrastructure and then put sanctions on them so they couldn’t get food or medicine. And Israel owns our Congress. Biden is not cutting them off.