The switch of sides and betrayal of an ally is complete. What country in its right mind would ever want to ally with the United States?
“U.S. pauses Israel arms shipment over Rafah assault fears as Biden pushes for a cease-fire deal,” by Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee, Andrea Mitchell, Raf Sanchez, Abigail Williams and Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, May 8, 2024:
The United States halted a large shipment of offensive weapons to Israel last week in a sign of its growing concern over a possible military offensive on Rafah, senior administration officials told NBC News.
The decision comes as President Joe Biden pushes for Israel and Hamas to compromise and reach a cease-fire deal that would head off a large-scale assault on the city in southern Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering in dire conditions.
The Israeli military said it had reopened a key border crossing Wednesday following pressure from Washington, and a day after its ground forces seized control of the Gaza side of another crossing — a move that fueled fears for aid supplies coming into the enclave, but which U.S. officials said was a limited operation and not the full-scale assault Biden has warned against.
The Israeli military appeared to play down the dispute, with a spokesman saying Wednesday that the two allies resolve any disagreements “behind closed doors.”
But an Israeli official told NBC News there is deep frustration in the Israeli government over the decision. The official added that tensions had already been running high after Israel felt the U.S. allowed it to be blindsided by Hamas’ announcement earlier this week that it was accepting a version of a cease-fire proposal.
The White House halted the shipment of weaponry last week because of concern that it would be used in Rafah, a senior administration official said Tuesday night. The shipment included 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, the official said.
The Biden administration had been “especially focused” on ending Israel’s use of 2,000-pound bombs in its offensive in Gaza, the official said, given the impact they have on dense urban areas.
Israel already has a large arsenal, making the halt unlikely to stop an offensive….
bagsgroove says
Have you noticed Biden’s eyes in a frontal image. They remind me of snake eyes, like he is planning something that’s not right ! Either that or he needs glasses !
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Didn’t Biden repeatedly say that his commitment to Israel’s security was “ironclad”? And now he is attempting to force Israel to bend to his wishes, by withholding weapons — 2,000 pound bombs — that the IDF needs. His aim is to prevent the IDF from entering Rafah, which would mean Israel would have to give up any hope of winning its necessary war against Hamas.
Spiro says
Biden is so out of touch with reality it’s dangerous
He has a political history of lies and opportunities for self
enrichment
He guy got elected president on his own merit ☺️ really ?
somehistory says
Some of us saw this coming….a bunch of demoncrats have been pushing for it, and of course their *peers* in Dearborn and other places have been threatening biden if he continued as he had been…even though his *support* for Israel has been a wishy-washy thing the entire time.
and the tliab snake won’t be satisfied with that….
“‘Squad’ member Rep. Tlaib calls for Netanyahu’s arrest; GOP senators warn ICC of serious repercussions”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/squad-member-rep-tlaib-calls-for-netanyahu-s-arrest-gop-senators-warn-icc-of-serious-repercussions/ar-BB1m0fsz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=313918315c9c4a199b38a3d85cdae11a&ei=32
Stive says
A lot of American military weaponry have some Israeli made components. Israel should halt all supply to America publically and actually until the Biden regimes is no more and pray it is soon.
truth says
Biden and the current form of the democrat party is the embodiment of evil.. The democrat party has always had it’s major flaws but there was a time when they would happily debate you and actually listen, that time is gone.. Democrats of today are rigid, evil, totalitarians in every way and if not stopped they will destroy America and possibly all of Western Civilization..
James Lincoln says
All true, truth.
Spiro says
Biden is so out of touch with reality it’s dangerous
He has a political history of lies and opportunities for self
enrichment
He guy got elected president on his own merit ☺️ really ?
FYI says
Hey Joe! You left the southern border wide open didn’t ya?
Yeah major national security implications there…hullo.?…Ah come on man….Joe ..ya still with us?
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is insidious scoundrel of the most despicable sort.
Biden likes and supports Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran, which funds Hamas.
As the former US President, William Howard Taft had, so wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America.”
Walter Sieruk says
hat rat , Joe Biden and others in his despicable regime would stop the shipment of weapons to Israel, No matter how important and necessary arms are needed in Israel’s self-defense against those vicious and murderous attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah.
This is because that fiendish villain Biden, has ,indeed, totally abandoned Israel , likewise he betrayed her. Biden even has the diabolical gall to attempt to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Force all the while he’s providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
We may be sure that either in a direct way or an indirect way will use that money to advance its nuclear weapons program and further its stooge terror/murder jihad organizations which are Hamas, Hezbollah , Islamic Jihad
Some Westerners might find in a bit interesting that Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the other ayatollahs and mullahs who have so much terrible power in Iran , don’t ever engage in any shootings and bombings , they just have their useful idiots who are the Muslim terrorists those three horrendous jihad entities to the dirty work of murdering of people for them as their tools.
Some of that vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain will , without doubt , also be given in support to further found Hamas and also Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Truly, Joe Biden is a treacherous scoundrel.
nicholas william tesdorf says
These days, America usually ends up on the losing side of a war, and so this could really be good news for Israel.
jerry glenn says
USA surges in the international Islamopandering derby.