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@ISIDEWITH submitted…3 days3D
We know very little about how American weapons are used once they reach the Israeli military. Are they used in Gaza, and how? Are they flowing to the West Bank? Is there a possibility that they reach battalions that the United States is considering sanctioning because of alleged human rights violations?When the Biden administration ships arms to Ukraine, it pulls out the megaphones. It announces its shipments and hails its own efforts “to support the brave Ukrainian people as they defend their country,” as Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it last month. The White House emphasizes transparency about aid provided to Ukraine, saying it wants to be clear how “that money has been spent.”It’s a different story when the destination is Israel. A few details leak in the American or Israeli press, but overall, when sending arms to the Israel Defense Forces, the Biden administration seems to prefer the sound of silence.Transparency about arms transfers takes on special significance now that President Biden has signed a landmark $95 billion foreign aid package, approved after long delays in the House of Representatives. That package will pay for billions of dollars of arms flowing to Ukraine, Israel and other nations. As soon as the bill became law, the administration issued new announcements about weapons shipments to Ukraine, but not about transfers to Israel.“I think the administration makes sure that the word gets out to the pro-Israel community that these things have been transferred but doesn’t want to inflame the not pro-Israel community,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel and Egypt. “The word gets out anyway, but it’s not a headline.”Transparency is the lifeblood of democracies. For the same reason that the White House takes care to explain how taxpayer dollars are spent on military support for Ukraine, the administration owes it to Americans to be forthcoming about weapons flown to Israel, even if it finds disclosure to be politically uncomfortable.
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Ukraine is a country fighting for its freedom and its democracy against an invader, while Israel is a country bent on us…
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What would be the point of the ICC if War Criminals can just ask to avoid arrest warrants.
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Israel’s deliberate, industrial-scale murder of the Palestinian people under the pretext of “self-defence” won’t enhance…
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Solution: give Ukraine more of our ammo. What could go wrong?
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So you support the killing of women and children that these kids are protesting?
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The definition of antisemitism appears no where in the bill!
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Have I gotten this right? So a global court convicts someone of a crime, and in response the criminal lashes out at the…
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Because obviously it's all Netanyahu's fault for not being able to predict the future and stop the attack before it happ…
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Many, many far-left extremist groups are registered nonprofits in the U.S. that receive taxpayer funded grants or cash i…
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Hate speech is legal. Threatening Jewish students, vandalism and trespassing aren't legal.
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