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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Netanyahu again claims U.S. withholding arms shipments, days after Washington denies it
By TIA GOLDENBERG TEL AVIV, Israel©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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itsonlyrocknroll
On the 7th October 2023 Hamas terrorists committed a grotesque atrocity, that has led to a devastating war in Gaza, and the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
This US administration has attempted to sit on a political fence in an election year.
There is no political one foot in, one foot out.
Regardless of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connotations regarding full military support.
Joe Biden US government is commuted to an Israeli people under the solemn belief they are all under an existential crisis, from a enemy that want to stage another holocaust.
Arm Israel as promised or face consequences, unmaintainable, as this conflict turns into a full middle eastern war.
Benjamin Netanyahu will, if forced into a corner bring tactical nuclear weapons into the battle field.
lincolnman
Netanyahu doing his best to interfere in the US election...
He needs to step down and a new leader elected who can finish off Hamas yet not kill scores of innocent Palestinian children...
Pukey2
It's strange how AIPAC isn't classified as a foreign agent.
Capuchin
Over 5 decades of brutal Israeli occupation led to the Oct 7th attacks. Not to mention Netanyahu's own tacit support of Hamas over the years.
The U.S. is very much 2 feet in for Israel. Endless weapon supplies, vetoeing countless resolutions and denouncing any and all criticism of Israel.
Yet you also mention Israel's nuclear capability a few sentences later. Hardly an existential threat.
You mean like the 9/11 attacks? A direct consequence of U.S. support for Israel.
Let's hope not but the scale of the genocide in Gaza doesn't bode well. Netanyahu has no moral compass.
itsonlyrocknroll
Capuchin
I think you are fully aware of the dangers and consequences facing Gaza, the Palestinian people, Israel, the whole middle east,
You certainly don't need my opinions as an outsider to point that out
GuruMick
Israel's "existential threat " is of it's own making. Israelis' are leaving in droves, foreign industry and capital not investing etc.
It seeks to maintain a "qualitative edge in the region " according to Gallant ,, quoted above.
How a nuclear power supported by the world's super power {USA } can be existentially threated by a resistance group who make their own weapons and have no air or sea capacity, nor heavy land vehicles like tanks, is a falsity called "hasbara "
Maybe Israel should pay in its own money for weapons.
sakurasuki
Why he thinks that someone really entitled to get US Tax payer money to help genocide?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-dept-moves-1-bln-weapons-aid-israel-congressional-review-official-says-2024-05-14/
itsonlyrocknroll
GuruMick, it is the perception of a threat that creates, the sometimes paranoiac anxiety that drives countries to war.
Aly Rustom
Capuchin&GuruMick
Excellent posts!
JboneInTheZone
If Hamas got their hands on a nuclear weapon, do you think they wouldn’t use it on Israel?
They obviously would
That makes them an existential threat
kurisupisu
Is Israel running out of deadly weapons to kill civilians?
Personally, I’m not crying a river…
itsonlyrocknroll
A ceasefire, leading this Israeli/Gaza war ending abruptly if Hamas was to accept terms from third party, with the UN support and Arab middle eastern counties.
Blacklabel
Biden is withholding weapons, to pander for votes.
itsonlyrocknroll
sorry respectfully Countries
Yrral
It, Israelis are finally reaping what the sowed, as for as Biden, instead of doing the right thing, he doing the White thing, a typical response by insecure White politican
GuruMick
Rocknroll..."creating perceptions "...in Israel its called "Hasbara "
Elsewhere, its propaganda.
If you tell a lie, make it a big one {Goebbels I think }
Blacklabel
I totally agree with everyone’s favorite convicted felon.
i have no understanding how a Jewish person could vote for Joe Biden or any Democrat.
Chabbawanga
Palestinians who were released after being held hostage by the IDF have reported that IDF soldiers forced dogs to have sex with them.
wallace
6 million Jews vote for Biden.
'IN THE END, 75% OF JEWS COME HOME TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-democrats-plan-to-get-joe-biden-reelected-by-targeting-independent-voters/
lincolnman
Sure, they're going to vote for this guy....
"The former vice president for the Trump Organization recalled her one-time boss once making a truly repulsive joke about Nazi war crimes while in the company of several Jewish executives.
On Sunday, Barbara Res told how she witnessed Donald Trump joke that a new hire from Germany “remembers the ovens” which were used at Nazi extermination camps during the Holocaust.
“Everybody was shocked,” she said. “I cannot believe he said that. He was making a joke about the Nazi ovens and eating people.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-nazi-oven-joke-allegations_n_667881b2e4b0bd985dc4d41c
Sounds a lot like his MAL dinner guest Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes...
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-know
kurisupisu
@lincolnman
Fortunately,Trump’s off color joke telling doesn’t quite match the brutalities being carried out in Gaza by Israelis…
Capuchin
Israel handedly defeated the combined Arab armies in 1948 and 1967 and since then the gap between Israel's military capabilities and the surrounding regions has only increased. As you said yourself they have nuclear capability. The only country in the region to do so.
There is some legitimacy to the paranoia. Obviously there is the experience of the holocaust but I think it's now sadly become little more than a political tool to try and justify Israel's continued expansion and occupation. So in effect Israel has to manufacture its own threats in order to justify itself.
The real existential threat to Israel is babies. In other words population.
No. Firstly because nukeing Israel would take half of the Palestinian territories along with it.
Secondly, Hamas are a much more politically shrewd and savy organisation than you give them credit for. Capable of some heinous crimes certainly but not complete lunatics.
GuruMick
Netanyahu, in a recent televised address , in English, said
"GIVE US the weapons so we can FINISH THE JOB..."
Give us ? Use your own shekels boyo.
Finish the job ?
You havent even spoken of the "day after " the war.
The world and even the US speak of two states.
Israel cannot conceive of this.
The right wing say, one state with limited Palestinian numbers, no full citizenship, no voting rights at a national level.
Then Israel gets upset when the "Apartheid " word is used.
What then is the Israeli plan ?
Subjugation of millions of the original people of that land.
Sanjinosebleed
Netanyahu is a war criminals and should be in jail !
The US has enabled Israel's genocide all along and they are not going to stop now sadly. It just shows the hypocrisy of the Wests claims of belief in the rule of law. Judges and lawyers at the ICC have been threatened by the US and Israel with sanctions and worse .
Free Palestinians from this disgusting treatment!
TokyoOldMan
If we let Israel fail where would things go ?
JboneInTheZone
No. There are nuclear weapons that wouldn’t be large enough to effect the Palestinian Territories
Because you said so? They indiscriminately launch rockets into Israel without a care, they massacred civilians on 10/7 without a care, and their founding charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel. By every metric they’ve proven they wouldn’t hold back if they came across a nuclear weapon
zibala
Netanyahu again claims U.S. withholding arms shipments, days after Washington denies it
I definitely trust Netanyahu over Biden on this,
Israel needs the weapons to continue its internal law compliant self-defense against the terrorists occupying Gaza.
The world has opportunity to come together in defeating the attempted genocide against the Israeli people.
Sanjinosebleed
TokyoOldMan
Today 09:58 am JST
If we let Israel fail where would things go
To a much better place no doubt! The way it is now, loonies like Netanyahu and his right wing cabal will have the rest of the world in ww3 before long!