The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles.
    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44•1 month 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.

  • Tiefling IRL
    80•1 month ago

    USA: “Universal health care is too expensive and would cut into rich people’s yacht money”

    Also USA:

    • @baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
      39•1 month 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.

    • SeaJOP
      15•1 month 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
    36•1 month ago

    “arms sales” lol

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

    • @WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
      8•1 month 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.

  • @jonne@infosec.pub
    13•1 month 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
      -1•1 month ago

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

      • @jonne@infosec.pub
        -1•1 month 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.

  • 100
    12•1 month ago

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