The weapons are not expected to reach Israel anytime soon; the contracts will take years to fulfill.
    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      527·
      5 months ago

      If we stop funding the genocide, what are we going to spent that $20B on? Student debt forgiveness? Medicaid expansion? A functional domestic transit system? Cybersecurity worth half a shit?

      Fuck you. No. We’re blowing it all on new kit for a dozen IDF soldiers jerking themselves over a pile of lingerie stolen from a dead Palestinian.

    • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
      401·
      5 months ago

      Just so everyone knows, all that money goes back to the US military industrial complex. It’s a deal where Israel gets weapons and our oligarchs get more money.

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeOP
      15·
      5 months ago

      Ironically, if we had Medicare for All, we could afford more boom booms since it is cheaper than our current system.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    382·
    5 months ago

    “arms sales” lol

    yea, let’s call it a “sale” when they’re “buying” it with money we gave them

  • AreaKode@lemmy.world
    20·
    5 months ago

    Isreal gets more bombs, and the 1% get more of our tax money. What a boring distopia we live in.

    • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
      8·
      5 months ago

      Didn’t she just lose her primary because of them? Did she say she is going to dedicate herself to taking them down now, like some sort of Korean revenge flick? Because I am all for this new arc of hers of that’s the case.

  • 100@fedia.io
    142·
    5 months ago

    can I get an ELI5 why would israel need billions worth of aid to stomp on palestinian civilians and ragtag hamas militia?

  • jonne@infosec.pub
    142·
    5 months ago

    So Israel does everything possible to investigate a wider war, like doing assassinations of peace negotiators in Iran, and as punishment they get more arms because of the increased risk of wider conflict.

    I have a feeling the US hasn’t really thought their strategy through.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      5 months ago

      I have a feeling that they absolutely have thought this through and are just itching for another mideast war.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        12·
        5 months ago

        I mean, I guess judging by their actions that must be true, and the whole ‘we don’t like Netanyahu’ thing they keep leaking is just cover.

        But they must know that running a proxy war in Ukraine, one in the middle east while also continuing to protect Taiwan and dealing with global terrorism is probably beyond what they can do.

  • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
    91·
    5 months ago

    So remember the time when America declared the War on Terror over and how they were gonna pull out entirely from the Middle-East?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.