1y ago

Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah

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Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah: Source

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No way they were using all those weapons for genocide??!!!?!
lmao as if he's just now realizing this, sure thing.
- More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn't have the weapons to send. Framing it as refusing to send the weapons because US all of a sudden developed a conscience is a way to avoid admitting this.
  
  More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn’t have the weapons to send.
  That is the most wildly implausible thing I've read on Lemmy today.
- “Why won’t he do anything to stop the bombing?”
  stops bomb shipment
  “Dumb dumb didn’t know bombs are for bombing? Yeah right!”
  Like what even is your comment trying to say?
  
  That Biden still carries water for Israel despite recognizing they misuse the weapons we give them
  
  That this is at best a PR stunt and at worst an outright lie. This one shipment isn't going to do anything to curtail Israel's behavior and the shipment will eventually be delivered anyway.
And the millions of weapons prior to the some 3.5 thousand bombs weren’t?
- You’re totally right he should just go ahead and let the shipment happen…?
  
  nobody here is suggesting this except you
Means tested genocide!
- This particular comment sings to me
At least its a slight movement in the right direction, but until the flow is cut off entirely we need to hold his feet to the fire.
Oh come on. This is pretty limp wristed narrative bait. There was one shipment out of many that maybe got held up, temporarily, potentially by accident, that's not the firm moral opposition to a genocide that we seem to think it is
- Smacks of "I am placing sanctions on Israel" Places sanctions on 3 men
- If anyone thinks that they're either lying or just very stupid
Plot twist: the bombs were intended for use in Rafah and Biden feared they only might be.
Too little, too late.
- Too late for thousands but in time for hundreds of thousands more.
  
  Yeah that brief pause achieved nothing except to give his genocide complicit supporters an excuse to continue to make excuses for him.
… Was there shipments to Israel before last week?
Definitely would. The more accomplices, the better.
Biden has been slow-walking arms to Israel for a while but there are forces that want to use Netanyahu's actions against him as if Biden has control of him.

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