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Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.

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[–] solo@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was under the impression that:

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US accounted for 69% of Israel's imports of major conventional arms between 2019 and 2023.

And that:

In May 2024, the US confirmed it had paused a single consignment of 2,000lb and 500lb bombs over concerns Israel was going ahead with a major ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. But Biden immediately faced a backlash from Republicans in Washington and from Netanyahu who appeared to compare it to an "arms embargo". Biden has since partially lifted the suspension and not repeated it.

From Biden plans to send $8bn arms shipment to Israel - BBC - 4 January 2025

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"We did it Patrick, we saved Palestine!" - Tankies right now

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Where is this take simultaneously coming from for everyone?

Guys. NOBODY. THOUGHT. TRUMP. WAS. BETTER. Now we can finally acknowledge that the American so-called "left" political party is so obscenely fucked that they're complicit in genocide? Literally the hallmark of Nazi Germany? Perhaps we as a people do not really have a lot of choice going on, and impotently choosing between two fascist parties election after election is not going to gradually bring us to democratic reform?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because EVERY discussion had like fifteen tankies going "BuT YoU NeEd A REasON fOr Us tO voTe thAt IsN'T TrUMp!11"

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As it turns out, there are about 2,000 pounds of difference between Republicans and Democrats.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To the Muslim MAGA voters, that's 2000 lbs, multiples, of Fuck Around and Find Out.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"it can't get worse tho..."

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yea but at least we don't have GeNOCiDe JoE and that damn BlUemAgA in power!!!/S

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh god is that all the ceasefire is? Chance to resupply? Trump is going to open the floodgates.

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