Washington Quietly Flooded Israel With Weapons Used To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
As the White House publicly feigns concern for the mass murder of Palestinian civilians by Israel, for the past five months, the Pentagon has delivered tens of thousands of bombs used to flatten the Gaza Strip
The US government has secretly made over 100 weapons shipments to Israel since 7 October, fueling the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by delivering tens of thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms, and other lethal weapons without notifying Congress.
“The administration has organized more than 100 individual transfers of arms to Israel, but has only officially notified Congress of two shipments made under the major foreign weapons sales process, which are usually submitted to lawmakers for review and then publicly disclosed,” US officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed.
US President Joe Biden bypassed Congress to approve the two publicly disclosed arms transfers by invoking an emergency authority. However, to hide dozens of other transfers, the White House relied on “less public mechanisms,” which include “drawing from US stockpiles, accelerating previously approved deliveries and sending weapons in smaller batches that fall below a dollar threshold that requires the administration to notify Congress.”
“That’s an extraordinary number of sales over a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this level of US support,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior White House official and current president of Refugees International, told the Washington Post.
“This stuff is non-transparent by design,” Josh Paul, a State Department official who resigned in October in protest of Washington's blind support for Israel's genocide campaign in Gaza, told the WSJ.
🔗SOURCE ➡️ The Cradle
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