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Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)

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[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Ain't that illegal?

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[-] supersane@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

At this point, I can confidently say that Israel controls America.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not quite true. Israel gets a lot of support from the US government because it's a useful ally.

It's the vanguard in the coveted Middle Eastern region (lots of oil) that is incidentally hated by everyone around them so you can easily use their status to provoke proxy wars, then invade and claim plausible deniability by saying you just helped out your ally.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

But during some of those conversations, managers have told staffers they should not expect to influence U.S. policy on Israel-Palestine regardless of their national security chops, according to five current and one recently departed State Department officials who talked to HuffPost.

Keep in mind, that Biden has asked for a humanitarian cease fire in Gaza. This information is like fresh of last night, so I don't expect news agencies to catch up fast.

It looks like Biden is lagging behind public opinion on this one, but he is turning course.

What that means going forward will depend on how much aid is let in Gaza by Israel.

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