The level of Biden's arms to Israel's war on Palestinian children is kept under wraps.
Most Americans want a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.
The pictures of the dead, particularly of the thousands of children, are just too much.
Which may be why the Biden administration downplays the degree of U.S. military support that is being delivered to Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Biden doesn’t seem to want us to know that it is American weapons that are killing Palestinian babies.
“At a time when thousands of civilians are being killed by weapons provided by the U.S. government, the American people deserve to be fully informed about what is being provided to other countries, including Israel, with their tax dollars,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), told The Washington Post. “The Biden administration should provide the same transparency around arms transfers to Israel that it has for Ukraine and other countries.”
In fact, the Biden administration’s secrecy on this matter is in violation of the law.
Israel’s arsenal comes directly from the United States, which provides the country $3.8 billion every year. Israel is the world’s largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid.
The Biden administration has asked Congress for an additional $14 billion in assistance for Israel as a part of the White House’s $106 billion foreign aid request, which also includes proposed funding for Ukraine and Taiwan.
The massive package has yet to pass amid the haggling between House and Senate GOP leadership.
The Biden administration’s arms transfer decision — and its concurrent push for billions of dollars of additional arms sales to Israel — came less than a year after Biden issued a formal order to federal agencies forbidding weapons transfers to countries where it is “more likely than not” that the weapons will be used to engage in “attacks intentionally directed against civilian objects or civilians” or used to commit “serious acts of violence against children.”
Or don’t Palestinian children count?