Unlike the United States’ publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, it was impossible to get the full details of what the U.S. has shipped Israel since last Oct. 7, so the $17.9 billion for the year is a partial figure, the researchers said.

They cited Biden administration “efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering.”

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    I wish the media would explain just how much money this is so the uninformed don’t just think it’s a high number. This is quite literally 17,900 stacks of 1 millions dollars each. It’s insane, but there seem to be plenty of people out there who don’t understand how large of a number this really is.

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    Lots of people here frame this as a Biden and Harris policy. While the Senate is evenly split between parties, the House is majority Republican. Congress is where this money is allocated. And Trump is rabidly anti-Muslim. But sure, frame aid as Biden and Harris only. Never mind what will happen once Trump wins the election.

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      Biden has literally bypassed congress to send more arms to Israel than what was allocated.

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      Biden has dozen of options to halt all arms sales to Israel whenever he wants. He is obligated to do so by both international and US law because of the blatant war crimes and attacks on aid workers but go off I guess.

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      They could refuse to sign the legislation, and force a vote in congress to overuse his veto. Then at least w3 could say the president isn’t a willing participant to fucking genocide.

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        It’s worse than that. Israel is absolutely ineligible for aid under the Leahy Law. Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan have actively ignored any and all evidence of war crimes. Even when it was our own intelligence and state department agencies generating the evidence. He doesn’t need to veto any of it. He could literally just cite the law and freeze the aid. Then it stays there ready for Israel to show it can operate without war crimes.

        They’re literally ignoring our own laws to support this genocide.

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      It will happen regardless of who wins the election, because imperialism is bipartisan. And it’s not about Biden or Harris or Trump: the Republican and the Democratic candidates were always going to be supportive of imperialism. The Republican & Democratic political machines aren’t going to float anti-imperialists on the general election ballot.

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      The genocide is bipartisan, and Biden is in power right now. It’s framed as Biden policy, because it literally is.

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        It’s literally 80 years of policy, but y’all are absolutely fixated on Biden/Democrats and can not fathom how worse it’s going to be under Trump. You are offended at the very idea you could be mistaken about this; fingers in your ears, “nyah nyah nyah”…

        Here’s my prediction: once Trump wins, the Gaza protests will wither and stop. Because the way high up directive on these protests is about the Democrats losing, not about Gaza.

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          No its about stopping a genocide you ghoul. It’s hard to make the situation worse than it is. Biden is obligated to stop arms sales years ago.

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          once Trump wins, the Gaza protests will wither and stop.

          What the fuck are you talking about? Are you trying to tell me that the overwhelming Muslim or leftist progressive protesters want a Trump presidency? How the fuck does that make sense?

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      I too want Univeraal Healthcare to be a thing in the U.S. That being said one thing that I think people don’t fully understand about this is that we are sending them Military Equipment that we already spent money on. We aren’t just sending them that in cash.

      We should definitely have a conversation around how much we spend on the MilItaly Indusrial Complex in America and the better ways we could spend that money to help our own citizens.