US warns Israel of potential halt to arms transfers if Gaza aid is not distributed
US warns Israel of potential halt to arms transfers if Gaza aid is not distributed
The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.
The four-page missive, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.
Edit: changed from NYT to Guardian. Same story, no paywall.
We have a semblance of a threat.
“Concepts of a threat”
US: "That's very naughty!"
Oh man, US warned Israel that they might do something. Real stern rebuke there.
Within ...30 days? As in, after the US election? What a joke.
On the same week they moved a multi-billion dollar set of missile systems into Israel along with putting US troops on the ground there for the first time. The Biden administration and Congress in general have been issuing warnings and "expressing concerns" for almost a year now. Stories about blocked aid and US demands to fix it go back for months. Actions speak louder than words, and by now all credibility has been squeezed out of responses like this.
Biden is a self-proclaimed unshakable Zionist, the politically potent arms manufacturers are having a field day, and the US has been ignoring both international law and their own laws like Leahy for a while now. I'll believe this letter is more than just election season pageantry when the arms and money actually stops, not before (and I don't think I'm alone in that regard).
P.S. Don't let either party or relevant PACs off the hook, don't stop pointing out this BS, but if you're American still vote to keep Trump out of office for many obvious reasons.
You turned anti-missile system into missile system?
An anti missile missile is still a missile. If it has a rocket engine, a payload and some sort of guidance system (as opposed to rockets) it is called a missile. And generally if it knows where it is by knowing where it isn't you have a modern missile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
I'm not a weapons expert, the article I linked identifies what it's meant for by the 2nd paragraph, and if you want to be pedantic THAADs exclusively fire missiles. Unit cost: $1.25 billion per battery $12.6 million per missile. Same page has diagrams detailing the "THAAD missiles".
Also: "Although the actual figures are classified, THAAD missiles have an estimated range of 125 miles (200 km), and can reach an altitude of 93 miles (150 km). A THAAD battery consists of at least six launcher vehicles, each equipped with eight missiles..."
People in northern Gaza are facing a direct starvation campaign right now. They are not even going to last 30 days without food and water.
Yeah. I read the article and thought things were trending in the right direction now - and they are, but as you point out it may not be fast enough.
Quick, build a pontoon dock or some shit.
Biden realizes he's seriously fucking up Harris chance of winning.
But does he care enough to stop being to be a self proclaimed zionist?
Too much money from AIPAC to care.
How is it his fault that she doesn't say she'll do something different?
It isn't. It's his fault for not containing the situation and allowing Netanyahu to go full throttle on his genocidal campaign.
So phony. Stop the genocide US, the damage is irreversible as it is, spare at least the remaining lives.
Finger wagging intensifies
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