Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile
To get arms for its Gaza war, Israel is drawing on a U.S. arms stockpile. Joe Biden wants to remove all the restrictions on the arms.
This article is inaccurate or at least misleading in its title presentation. It's reporting on something that happened on October 20th, as the second paragraph notes, and was never actually enacted. In fact, Biden moved back from this and has been instead moving to restrict all weaponry sales to Israel in the past few days.
Biden has not been in any form of good light in my eyes in the past two months, but please don't spread fake or misleading information like this.
Based on the discussion here it seems rhe damage is already done
That's clearly the point for articles like this to even be written. There's no defense for a title like that when it's referring to something from a month ago that wasn't even enacted.
A lie travels halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Since that quote was written long before the Internet, the lie has now been round the world 20 times and has multiple reaction videos before the truth can even find its boots.
I appreciate you taking a step back and contextualizing because I embarrassingly did miss that part when I was reading this article. Another reminder of the importance of media literacy. However, I still find it both problematic and disappointing that this had ever been proposed at all. I'm tired of the Team America World Police act.
I always find the whole world police thing to be perplexing. People complain if America intervenes but they also complain if they don’t intervene.
Don't be embarrassed, at least you came back and admitted you missed something
This is beyond frustrating. It's like Joe is actively trying to lose his bid for re-election. It is so fucking insulting that the American people are being forced to choose between accepting this neo-liberal chicanery or effectively ending democracy.
I hate that every argument I have against what he's doing makes me come off as an antisemitic douche but it REALLY seems like our government isn't in control of what they're doing.
edit: to clarify, I'm not talking about the anti-genocide arguments, I don't need to make those because they're clear. What hold does Israel have over us that we have to get in the middle of this when they should easily be able to handle it, and how in the hell does it have bi-partisan support when few people in the US on either side seem to support it.
Read the article. It's like journalists are actively trying to lose his bid for re-election through misleading headlines...
It's because we voted "anti-establishment". We tried going for Bernie but then the DNC took care of that. Then Donnie boy was "obviously never gonna win." And America said screw you we don't want the SAME elitist bullshit. Donnie won threw the world for a loop and you know what they decided?
To punish us. To encourage Trump, to outrage us at everything he did wrong and incite him to do worse. Ever wonder why he's not in jail? Because he's the clown they keep punishing us with.
See vote for Clinton, or Biden, or Bush because LOOK at the alternative!
That's not real democracy. Real democracy would've been Bernie getting the DNC nomination like he deserved. Real democracy would've been ranked choice voting where we don't have to pick the shortest steaming pile of shit!
You took the words right out of my mouth. It isn't real democracy, you're exactly right. I'm tired of feeling the shame and disgust of having to vote for the lesser of two evils candidate. I'm tired of the violence. I'm tired of all of it.
“Vote blue, no matter who!”
“Okay, pick a decent candidate!”
“Best we can do is Joe Biden”
"We already have Joe Biden at home."
Joe Biden at home: "eh, they're still a little too brown for me to stop them from dying..."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“If enacted, the amendments would create a two-step around restrictions on U.S. weapons transfers to Israel,” said John Ramming Chappell, a legal fellow with the Center for Civilians in Conflict.
Under circumstances laid out in these requirements, Israel has been able to draw on the stockpile, purchasing the weapons at little cost if it uses the effective subsidy of U.S. military aid.
The effect of lifting the restrictions on transfers to Israel — such as eliminating the requirement that the weapons be part of a surplus — could harm U.S. interests by diminishing American preparedness for its own conflicts in the region, said Josh Paul, a former official who served in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
The U.S. government is only supposed to spend $200 million per fiscal year restocking the WRSA-I — about half the total cap for all U.S. stockpiles round the globe.
The U.S. currently requires that Israel grant certain concessions in exchange for certain types of arms assistance from the Pentagon, but the White House request would remove this condition as well.
“The Biden administration’s supplemental budget request would further undermine oversight and accountability even as U.S. support enables an Israeli campaign that has killed thousands of children,” said Chappell, of Center for Civilians in Conflict.
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Biden surely does love genocide. I mean, he did support the Iraq invasion and fully knew the WMD were bullshit, so it's unsurprising.