The US has delivered over 50,000 tons of military equipment to Israel just over the past 10 months.

The U.S. has sent nearly two shipments of weapons to Israel on average every day since it began its genocide in Gaza on October 7, according to new figures from the Israeli military.

This represents over 50,000 tons of military equipment, the military said, or over 150 tons of equipment per day as Israel relentlessly slaughters Palestinians and their children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This includes equipment like armored vehicles, munitions and ammunition.

The latest figures are yet another show of the astonishing amount of weapons sent by the Biden administration to aid in Israel’s genocide. The U.S. has sent Israel billions in military assistance and funding to procure U.S.-made weapons; just last week, the U.S. approved a whopping $20 billion sale of weapons to Israel as it threatens war across the Middle East.

Pro-Palestine activists in the U.S. have, for months, been demanding that officials stop sending weapons to Israel. Public opinion polls have repeatedly shown that the majority of Americans think that the U.S. should stop sending weapons.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    332·
    2 months ago

    And Biden violated US and international law by going around Congress for one of em even…

    Going around congress:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-department-approves-tank-ammo-sale-to-israel-bypasses-congress/

    US law:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law

    International law:

    https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-war-nsm-international-law-c83b6f39ce2799e5d2c473a337e2f857

    Since they claimed there “wasn’t evidence” a source for the evidence Israel used US munitions:

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/israel-opt-us-made-munitions-killed-43-civilians-in-two-documented-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-new-investigation/

    You may notice the evidence was from Dec 2023, and Biden claiming there’s no evidence was May 2024.

    There was evidence, Biden just ignored it

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        2 months ago

        If they ignored it then it would at least make sense people didn’t know…

        But I just linked CBSNews, AP, and Amnesty international. Shits being covered.

        Biden isn’t the only issue, we can’t solve the problem by waiting till January.

        AIPAC just got party leaders from both parties together to make sure they stay on message:

        The top four congressional leaders — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffires (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — are all set to address AIPAC’s Congressional Summit in Washington, D.C., which kicked off on Sunday.

        Approximately 1,600 AIPAC leaders and activists will attend the convening, according to AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittmann, which will also include remarks by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog and a lobbying component calling for emergency Israel funding, full-year 2024 Israel funding and passage of the SHIP Act, an Iran oil sanctions bill that’s expected to be considered in committee in the Senate soon.

        https://jewishinsider.com/2024/03/aipacs-congressional-summit-in-washington-congressional-leaders/

        And again, this shit wasn’t a secret, it’s all out there in the open and widely reported on.

      • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        Most of the MSM also ignores it, just like they do a lot of stuff

        And yet everyone believes everything they say about Iran/China/Russia/Venezuela and all the other places we have been trained to despise.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      the leahy law would prevent arms aid to specific foreign military units found in violation; it’s never going to prevent arms shipments to an entire country. so you can’t use any single shipment (as in the tank ammo shipment from 2023) to say biden broke the leahy law due to other unrelated israeli units.

      the real issue imo is that apparently the state department is not applying the leahy law appropriately in isreal - that is where we should be focusing attention.

      https://www.justsecurity.org/96522/israel-leahy-law/

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        Due to the difficulty of tracing unit-level recipients of large amounts of U.S. security assistance to some countries, including Israel, in 2019 Congress added the following measure to the Leahy law, Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act:

        If assistance to a foreign security force is provided in a manner in which the recipient unit or units cannot be identified prior to the transfer of assistance, the Secretary of State shall regularly provide a list of units prohibited from receiving assistance pursuant to this section to the recipient government and . . . such assistance shall only be made available subject to a written agreement that the recipient government will comply with such prohibition.

        The State Department has never delivered a list of ineligible Israeli units to the government of Israel. Not once.

        That means they’re violating the Leahy Law…

        By going around congress, Biden can not try to hide behind them, and makes himself clearly personal accountable for that specific violation.

        Now, do I think it’s realistic that anyone from either party is held accountable for the multitude of Leahy violations?

        No, Israel owns too many of our politicians from both parties for many one to be held accountable until anyone that’s ever taken Israeli money in exchange for preferential treatment is kicked out of the Dem party and we then get super majority numbers.

        Obviously we could try to fix republicans too, but we need to put on our own oxygen mask first.

        The best way to accomplish this is push for getting money out of Dem primaries like Bernie is attempting.