After repeatedly telling Israel what it should not do, only to be rebuffed, Biden wants to send still more money to Israel. At the same time, he threatens sanctions!
U.S. Considers Sanctions on Israeli Army Unit
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. Considers Sanctions on Israeli Army Unit Accused of Rights Abuses
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that the U.S. was deliberating whether to apply to Israel a law that prohibits U.S. aid to foreign security forces that have committed human-rights violations, and planned to announce results soon.
“The Israel Defense Forces must not be sanctioned!” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Saturday on X. Applying sanctions against an Israeli military unit during the war with Hamas would be the “height of absurdity and a moral low,” he wrote.
The intention to potentially sanction an Israeli military unit was widely condemned in Israel over the weekend, but reflects growing U.S. pressure on Israeli officials over their conduct of the war in Gaza.
Biden Weighs More Than $1 Billion in New Arms for Israel
Also consider Biden Weighs More Than $1 Billion in New Arms for Israel
The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U.S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza.
The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct. 7.
The sales would also be the first since Iran launched an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on Israel last weekend in retaliation for the killing of a top Iranian general in Syria on April 1. Israel responded to that attack overnight in what appeared to be a limited strike, after it came under pressure from the U.S. not to further escalate the confrontation.
Israel has ignored all of Biden’s pleas, including an outright red line on attacking Rafah where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.
I covered that in Israeli Missiles Hit Iran, the Price of Oil Jumps 3 Percent
Crossing Red Lines
Biden told Israel to not retaliate, Israel did anyway.
Biden drew a red line on Israel entering Gaza to attack Rafah where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would do so anyway.
A few hours ago the BBC reported US again warns against Rafah offensive
Biden may as well be barking at the moon because it isn’t purple.
A quick check this morning shows the price of crude has largely given up its gains.
More importantly, Netanyahu has figured out the way to get more money and support is to ignore Biden and do what he wants to do.
Helping Israel and Ukraine?
On April 16, I asked What is the Best Way to Help Israel and Ukraine?
If you believe the US should help Israel no matter what Israel does, the puppet idea looks pretty good. In practice, that is exactly what has happened anyway.
Biden has proven that he has no red lines, so there is no point at all adding another line to the poll “attach strings to the money”. Netanyahu clearly controls the strings.
82.7 percent said “Stop Meddling” is the best thing the US can do.
My poll is not the least bit scientific because many of my readers are Libertarians who believe US meddling has increased the problems, but the percentage is still notable.
We have wasted many trillions of dollars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Vietnam only to lose wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam.
Warmongers blame Biden for leaving Afghanistan. I suggest it is the only thing Biden has right although he did boggle the exit. Trump planned to leave Afghanistan as well, although the exit would likely have been more orderly.
We have nothing to show for all of these efforts except massive deficits. Interest on the national debt is $1 trillion a year and all either party wants to do is spend more money.
Questions of the Day
How do you sanction an army unit other than not let them come to the US?
How does this combination of threatening to sanction Israel while simultaneously proposing to send them still more money after they cross red lines make any sense?
Christians and Jews will never have as much faith in their god as they do in my tax dollars. They don’t call it the Almighty Dollar for nothing.
Biden doesn’t want to upset the AIPAC money train. AIPAC spends $ millions bribing politicians and they give $ billions in return. Corruption of the highest order. With genocide and murder the net result.
The AFLCIO gained influence once they stopped “automatically” voting democrat, and the dems could no longer assume they had union support by default. Dems had to earn the AFLCIO support, or union votes would be split across parties. It made the unions more powerful when the dems couldn’t take them for granted.
If Israel wants influence, they will need to divide support across party lines. Stop voting 100% democrat no matter what; split their vote.
The Obama foreign policy team is definitely not pro-Israel – and definitely anti-Netanyahu. Israeli votes should adjust to fit that reality.
Biden isn’t running his own foreign policy; team Obama is. So Biden is having trouble soliciting bribes… um, campaign contributions… on foreign policy matters.
The Obama team actually determining foreign policy, even if the drooling fool is officially supposedly president, tried to overthrow Netanyahu back when Obama was in the Oval Office. Doubt the Obama team has any influence on Israel or Netanyahu under the new boss (who isn’t actually running things).
Netanyahu knows the USA is bankrupt and won’t financially be able to help Israel in the future, so best to address the Gaza stuff while they still have some US support.
Biden is irrelevent, in more ways than one. The Obama team does not support Israel, and Netanyahu even less — and everyone in Tel Aviv seems to appreciate this reality whether or not they like it
Biden is a fool and a tool.
It is not what is said but rather what is done that matters.
It’s not Biden. It’s his handlers. They are trying to walk a fine line of preventing Israel / Iran from destroying each other, and keeping factions within the Democrat Party from sitting out or voting for another candidate. It’s a line that can’t be walked safely.
That point is nicely illustrated in this extract from a Politico article today:
The subject of Abu Graib came up again recently, where 3 people accusing a contractor of torture, are apparently being allowed their day in court.
Torture memos, blah blah.. Are we the baddies?
Haspel apparently destroyed some evidence. The question isn’t whether we are the baddies, the question is whether we are any different than the baddies. You might remember My Lai. It was decades before the soldiers on the helicopter, who stopped the massacre, were officially honored for their actions.
And none of the guys who raped and then murdered little girls in front of their younger sisters and machine gunned babies did any prison time. One man did three years of house arrest.
This is most likely due to Biden’s cognitive decline. His handlers need to not let him out after Jello and oatmeal snacks at 8pm.
Here, where we all grew up and lived our lives, is the United States of Israel.
There is no separation.
A foreign country infiltrated this one.
The results of that are all around you.
That is the swamp.
Vote:
Is Israel US’s puppet?
Vote:
Is US the Israel’s puppet?
Welcome to The Truman Show
It’s difficult to take anything seriously any more.
It’s as if the world has been taken over by a really shit and malfunctioning AI system.
Every other day, there’s something new and weird going on, and it’s getting tedious.
The world has always been weird. When you are young you don’t notice it but as you get older you do.
Biden’s proposals are about as absurd as putting U.S. sanctions on the United States of America.
Never forget that Biden was installed with the STOLEN ELECTION which was engineered by this lovely gentleman. If you do not understand how the election was stolen SEE the Desouza movie, “2000 Mules” for how the ballot box stuffing was done. Here is a collection to properly skewer his holiness, Obummer.
Our old Muslim POTUS gets a proper skewering.
https://twitter.com/RickyDoggin/status/1782149218121195847/photo/1
I asked my friend literally the smartest man in the world “Dean who’s going to win the next election”?
Dean replied: “who ever they want to win.”
Elections have been 100% rigged post Carter and became ” in your face” since Bush and Gore.
It’s all fake.
Don’t fall for the illusions of control you do not have. We are Serf’s and nothing more.
Pudding Head Joe is talking out of both sides of his mouth along with other orifices at the same time. What a mess. The so called Biden is simply a place holder for the NatSec State and its telling that they are not as monolithic as one might suppose. Internal contradictions point to schisms. Who actually is in charge? Who knows … And Joe knows least of all.
Pudding Head? Did you get your GED?
GED? Geriatric Embezzling Democrat?
Puddinghead is a historical term.
puddinghead (n.) “amiable stupid person,” 1851, from pudding + head (n.).
Or
noun a person who is not very bright
synonyms:
dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, stupe, stupid, stupid person
The same people who control Joe control Trump.
Polarization is the game.
HATE HATE HATE
Unification is the ENEMY of the divide and conquer complex.
I feel sorry for everyone who’s fallen under the spell of psychopaths illusions. Jewish kids are being blown to shit over ego trip fairy tales – Santa’s not real either.
Sad day in human affairs – time for some mega trauma to break down notions, “we could all get along.”
Elephants are whipped and beaten into compliance by 130 pound humans.
WW3 will be one hell of a beating – millions will die.
True, I suppose.
But they seem to like Joe much more than Donald.
lol, what? Dude, the same people managing Joe’s meds are trying to get Trump in jail before the election.
Millions aren’t enough. Billions need to die so we can rebuild the world properly.
“This dumb show of the old gaffer hiding at his beach house and avoiding direct engagement with reality is also drawing to a close. Instead of calling “a lid” on “JB’s” activities, some humid morning in the swamp his handlers will call in “a medical alert” instead, and that will be the last we see of that dreadful apparition.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-bad-faith-olympics/?
I demonstrated at the VietNam Protests in Palo Alto in 1970. We did not PROTEST NORTH VIETNAM, we protested the WAR.
These were ANTI-WAR themes created by the SDS and others and even the Black Panthers were or became ANTI-WAR people. Then, LBJ finally heard us.
I would not be protesting ANTI-ISRAEL themes but instead STOPPING THE KILLING of regular people, which is of course a side-effect of Milking us of money to be round-tripped to Prez Z, Mr. N. and so on.
AND, Congress milks the LOBBYISTS and we KNOW that the BIG GUY always get his 10%!
Biden is so weak.
Gives billions to Israel and says “bomb carefully”
Gives billions to to Ukraine and says “bomb the crap out of them”.
I agree with the 82.7%. GTFO and stay out!
Let me make it easy to understand and it took some time for me to become “ON to it.” By making Israel the “bad guys” (while funding them) allows for Congress and BidenCO to shout down ANTI-ISRAEL protesters as being ANTI-SEMITIC. What protesters have screwed up: these protests must be ANTI-WAR Demonstrations, not anti-Israel demonstrations.
Regular People cannot figure out these dimensions because demonstrators are SHEEP, not MINDFUL PEOPLE.
Look… Biden has to please two groups of people.
So the compromise is to fake criticism but still support Israel under the radar (of the public).
Yes, that as well, Democritus. You make a fine argument for these actions. I am saying that Antisemitism “plays well” for many voters and influences them to remain Demonrats. OOPPS, meant DEMOCRATS
Biden is a total fool. Even he has no idea what he is doing. Purely action without thought.
Never forget that he said on camera right after the STOLEN ELECTION that he had no need or desire to read what the Obama staffers put in front of him to sign.
Don’t forget that you chumps never bothered to try and catch us for our illegal vote running scheme. Guess what’s on schedule for 2024? I’ll let you pencil that one out.
What comes after trillions? Some problems solve themselves.
Quadillions
Yes, Scott, we know this well and we know that EVERY President has their circle of Trusted and Creative Liars.