Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
On Friday Israel ordered more than a million Palestinians living in the northern half of Gaza to evacuate within 24 hours. Israeli forces have been massing at the border, and tanks and infantry units carried out the first ground attacks inside Gaza earlier on Friday.
A United Nations spokesperson said Israel's call for Gaza civilians to leave was impossible to carry out “without devastating humanitarian consequences.”
The evacuation area includes Gaza City, which is home to over 645,000 people, roughly the size of Washington, D.C.
The order did not tell Gazans where they should go and refugee camps in Gaza are already full.
According to projected population figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 1.19 million people live in the region now under evacuation order.
“I made clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that we stand ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the Government and people of Israel,” said Joe Biden.
But Biden has a problem.
Biden has made the same promise to Ukraine for it’s war with Russia and to Taiwan and our re-emergent challenge with China.
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell floated the idea of Congress passing one big emergency defense spending bill within the next few weeks that would cover Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
McConnell didn’t give a dollar estimate but indicated that the sums would be large, and should also include funding for the U.S. military to replenish its stocks and “expand and modernize our own weapons inventories.”
Like the recently passed record defense budget wasn’t big enough.
Legislators are discussing adding upward of $60 billion in Ukraine funding, enough for another year of war, along with what is expected to be billions of more dollars for Israel’s expected invasion of Gaza.