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Like, on a pallet, or high speed with the arming pins removed?
Israel currently has enough weapons stockpiled that they could continue the genocide for several months before they'd need to consider changing tactics. I don't see what use sending them additional weapons/munitions does - just stick it in a warehouse until they need it next winter? It's just a visible show of support right now.
Cut off that support. Let Israel swing in the wind without unconditional support and maybe they'll finally start pulling back from all-out extermination. Make sure any future shipments are bound with enforceable limits on their use, like the US has on almost every other arms shipment it makes. And take whatever we were going to send to Israel for the next six months, and send it to Ukraine, which actually is fighting a war for it's very survival against a much larger adversary.
I don't support sending ANYTHING to Israel. They aren't a scrappy start up needing our help anymore and haven't been for decades.
That said, I understand WHY we continue supporting them:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/Q05/2022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/aipac-pro-israel-lobby-group-us-elections
https://thehill.com/homenews/4606301-pro-israel-groups-target-progressive-lawmakers-primaries/
No.
No
Not unless they were getting Ukraine’d by Egypt/Jordan/Lebanon/Syria. Since they’re not, they can make do imho.
No. They have a lot already.
No. Why are you asking?
Because one of the troll accounts is trying to say Biden-supporters here mostly support giving weapons to Israel, and I'm naive enough to think it's worth investing time to demonstrate that that's a bunch of poo poo.
Why I take the internet this seriously instead of just shaking my head and moving on with my day, I honestly don't know.
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Jewish No.
Emotionally? No Via taxes? Yes Do I know enough to know the right way out of the quagmire? No
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I don't support weapons.
Yes, to the Palestinians
You understand that most of them would end up in Hamas's hands right?
Let's arm the Palestinians instead. Or, we could send intentionally defective weapons to Israel. Israel's genocide has to stop
China, Iran and Russia are way ahead of you in arming Palestinians.
I think the Palestinians people are mostly concerned about the deaths of, no one at all is arming. They're just starving to death, unarmed, in quiet desperation, in their homes or in the places they went to when their homes were destroyed.
What’s the context here? As aid, or as an attack? Need to know before answering.
Yoav Gallant: When can we expect the next tranche of aid to arrive? You've been totally unreliable ever since we threw chocolate ice cream in the face of your Secretary of State
US Ambassador: Oh, you'll know when it gets here, trust me
(I can dream...)
No.
Well, if it's for conquering it...
NO
Yes, but only if we can send negative weapons
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