Biden is thinking about (or his aides are thinking about) pulling the weapons plug on Israel
[Hat tip: commenter “sdferr”]
The Gaza War is one in which good and evil are quite clearly delineated. The Palestinian side features the October 7 atrocities and murders purposely targeting Israeli civilians when there was supposed to be a ceasefire in place, the desire of Hamas to obliterate Israel and Israelis and Jews, Hamas’ use of civilian locations such as hospitals in order to maximize its own civilian casualties and to lie about and inflate their numbers still further, and the enormous amount of support for Hamas and October 7 that the civilian population of Gaza has shown. This is in contrast to Israel’s efforts to reduce the number of Gazan civilian casualties while still defending itself and trying to eliminate Hamas, the willingness of Israelis to live and let live if only the Palestinians would stop trying to destroy Israel and Israelis, and Israel’s own two million Arab citizens.
The propaganda coming from the Arab world and the left about all of this represents not just lies, but Orwellian inversions of the truth. And one of the worst things about it is that some in the west are either believing those lies and preparing to act on them, or are cynically going along with the lies for the partisan political benefit of pleasing their own pro-Hamas left wings and their own Arab populations.
Canada will end arms exports to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told the Toronto Star today (Tuesday).
“It is a real thing,” Joly said.
The announcement follows the approval by Canada’s parliament on Monday of a motion submitted by the New Democratic Party (NDP) on Palestinian statehood. The motion included calls for an immediate ceasefire to end Israel’s military operations in Gaza and to end arms sales to Israel.
The motion was non-binding. Nevertheless, the Trudeau government intends to comply with it.
And then there’s Euopre. Here’s an article from about a month ago:
A court in the Netherlands on Monday told the Dutch government it must stop exporting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a “clear risk” that Israel’s fleet was being used to commit serious violations of international law in the Gaza Strip.
Three human rights groups, including Oxfam, brought the case to The Hague Court of Appeal, seeking to overturn a previous court decision that allowed the Dutch government to continue exporting F-35 parts to Israel. In Monday’s ruling, the court ordered the government to stop such exports within seven days.
The ruling came after the Italian and Spanish foreign ministers said recently that their countries had stopped all arms sales to Israel since the war began in Gaza more than four months ago, after Hamas’ attack on Israel. A regional government in Belgium also said it had suspended two licenses for gunpowder exports to Israel.
And from the Biden administration:
But growing doubts have been raised over the reliability of this supply, with a senior Israeli official telling ABC News, in a report published on March 15, that Washington has begun “slow-walking” some military aid to Israel. This comes amid increasingly harsh criticism by the Biden administration of Israel’s war effort.
Despite denials by American officials, the report cited the Israeli official as noting a major slow-down in the rate of arms deliveries. The official reportedly raised concerns over the availability of 155mm artillery shells and 120mm tank shells. “The United States had been supplying similar munitions to Ukraine, which also reports specifically running low on 155mm artillery shells,” the report said. …
Other observers noted that from the moment the Americans removed these armaments from Israel, Israeli decision-makers should have looked to pre-position hundreds of thousands of shells as a replacement and wondered how long it took for Israel’s Defense Ministry to sign a contract with Israeli defense firm Elbit to produce substitute shells.
The entire article is worth reading. It describe the armament situation in Israel and what might be done about it.
One of the many goals of Hamas and the Palestinians is to isolate Israel, and they know how to use propaganda to do it. It’s something they’ve been successfully accomplishing since at least the 1960s, and it has reached critical mass in the west during the last decade or two.
This totally p****s me off.
I do know that the world screwed over Israel in ’67, ’69, and ’73. There were arms embargoes set in place, ostensibly embargoing all arms sales to the Middle East, but really just Israel, since the Arab World mostly was supplied by the Soviet Union. DeGaulle refused to deliver jets Israel had already paid for.
I know that for forty years, a sizable portion of the Israeli population has voiced the opinion that Israel needs to make sure she is fully independent of her so-called “allies” — that she can’t ever rely on them.
Related…all rather shockingly….
Yes, even more shocking than Canada’s moral implosion (which, truth to tell, isn’t all that shocking when one considers the benighted leadership, so-called…. (Nonetheless, where Trudeau goes, can “Biden” be far behind?…)
“Fatah is right – Hamas is to blame for the war in Gaza;
“It’s time we called out the woke left’s neo-imperial belief that Israel is to blame for everything.”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/18/fatah-is-right-hamas-is-to-blame-for-the-war-in-gaza/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Caroline Glick Show, “Biden, Schumer and the plot to overthrow Netanyahu”, (46:50): https://youtu.be/QulZHMYt2zg?si=BnPzhyfRgB5HTQxc
Wait til you hear what Caroline says about the General officers (Ret) in Israel backing the insanity known as Biden’s strategy. Israel’s true difficuty is as much an internal matter as one dealing with outsiders’ pressures. And apart from the Israeli people’s apparent resolve to fight, I don’t see motion to cleanse their upper echelons. So, pending, I guess?
remember that miss freeland seems to the one running this corner of oceania,
recall how zoolander, welcomed that kadr kid back from guantanamo, with laurels and other awards, part of the egyptian derived crowder clan, and attacked the indian govt against the sikh if memory served
Hey, it looks like we can all breathe a sigh of relief: “Biden” says that “his” Blustery Bibi-Bashing- is only transitory…
…Oh, wait….
“Biden Privately Assured Netanyahu He’s Not Trying To Push Him Out”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-biden-theres-no-way-destroy-hamas-without-rafah-ground-op
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Meanwhile, it looks like Biden and his extraordinary family communicated with one another using aliases because they, no doubt, believed that doing so would provide greater transparency.
No word yet about establishing all those off-shore corporations, but, yeah, greater transparency is sure to be the likely reason for that, too.
‘ “That’s Joe Biden?” Biden Family Associate Confirms Joe & Family Used Email-Aliases During Vice Presidency’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eric-schwerin-testifies-joe-biden-and-biden-family-used-alias-email-accounts-during-vice
+ Bonus…
Nevada leading the way!
Huh? Nevada?
“RNC Files Election Integrity Lawsuit Against Nevada Secretary Of State”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rnc-files-election-integrity-lawsuit-against-nevada-secretary-state
Opening grafs:
as a fmr sayaret commando, bibi knows a rattlesnake when he sees one,
could we stop pretending this stuffed scarecrow knows anything as for his penzance crew, thats a whole nuther matter,
remember the Secretary of State project,
To live and die for ideology, these poor people,
these people ( the left) can go to hell!
Curiouser and curiouser (but only if one is not at all curious…)
“Evidence Of Foreign Nationals Accessing Dominion Voting Machines Leaked To Public”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/evidence-foreign-nationals-accessing-dominion-voting-machines-leaked-public
“The official reportedly raised concerns over the availability of 155mm artillery shells and 120mm tank shells.”
It’s been obvious for some time that production of these munitions needed to be ramped way, way up, given what’s been going on in Ukraine. A serious administration would have initiated something on the order of what Britain did during WWI to cope with the shell crisis.
“wondered how long it took for Israel’s Defense Ministry to sign a contract with Israeli defense firm Elbit to produce substitute shells”…I doubt they have the machine tools and other production equipment necessary for high-volume shell production…such things would probably have long leadtimes to acquire, even assuming that the producing countries didn’t embargo those items.
Biden is worried about re-election. But there might be issues with Jewish donors if he pulls support. His dilemma is the fact his base is pro-Hamas and many in his donor class is pro-Israel.
David Foster,
As I understand it under Obama Israel was promised US arms but under condition they buy from us and that shut down much of their arms industry.
Perhaps the intent was to put them on a short leash.
you could regard this regime as following the costanza role
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1770228219448275005
Port Of Hope – Part II: The Peaceful Future Of The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Depends On Ousting Qatar From Any Involvement In It
I read that MEMRI article today, but didn’t bother linking to it here – because it bashed Netanyahu more than I could stomach. Example:
What as mess…
Two could play this game.
Israel could immediately suspend all internet security software protections from countries suspending arms shipments.
The results would be … dramatic.
Pentagon official: US Defense Secretary will host Gallant next week — Pentagon official says Secretary Lloyd Austin will host Defense Minister Yoav Gallant next week for a bilateral meeting at the US Defense Department.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387030
Garbage people, these Bidenettes.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387025
Garbage. Tout court.
Paraphrasing the WSJ this morning – all foreign policy is ultimately domestic policy. Don has it right. This is all about the election. With a scapegoat they believe they can retain both Arab and Jewish votes. That scapegoat is Netanyahu.
The whole Brandon junta is perversely corrupt and evil.
If the arms support is stopped and Israel is forced to stop eliminating Hamas, Hamas will rearm, regroup and with Hezbollah attack again with Iranian support and Oct 7 looks like a picnic, what will these fine people do? Is it any wonder that other countries are decoupling from the vapid US. The world is going to be a very violent place.
Oddly enough this might be good for Israel, they will have learned (with certainty) that relying on someone else is rarely good.
@ Sennacherib > “relying on someone else is rarely good”
The Jewish nation, in its various incarnations, has had to learn that repeatedly throughout their history.
Psalms 146:3-5 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
A post recommended at Powerline today:
https://claritywithmichaeloren.substack.com/p/on-the-loneliness-of-the-jews
Chucky’s statement isn’t such a one time outburst after all, taking away Israelis ability to defend itself will accomplish the same result Chucky clamoring for.
Either way it saves Hamas to fight another day.
30,000 dead Palestinians, almost all civilians, and 70.000 wounded Palestinians, again almost all civilians. Genocide by famine.
The European colonial project in Palestine must be ended, and the Ashkenazi must return to their European homelands.
It amazes me that a significant portion of our country has fallen hook, line, and sinker for Hamas propaganda. Even if you go to Volokh and read the comments on Bernstein’s articles, you see a lot of emoting about right wing members of Bibi’s cabinet – as justification for cutting off aid or imposing a ceasefire. It’s literally nuts. These people (for the most part) aren’t calling on Hamas to surrender, which would end the war by lunch time. I’m afraid Bernstein is right. These people want Israel to lose. What an insane world we live in.
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/03/17/ive-won-an-argument-about-israel-i-wish-i-hadnt/
And the Sepharadi? Where ya’ gonna send them?
(Was wondering under which rock you were lurking.
I had thought perhaps that you were too intelligent to merely spout and regurgitate Hamas propaganda. Guess I was wrong… By the way, tell me, if you can, you who are so well-informed: how many Hamas fighters are included in those truer-than-true numbers you “quoted”?)
Bless your heart, bob sykes, you believe Hamas propaganda without question.
And to meet my quota 😉 – How about Trump recycling Biden’s “you ain’t black” line with respect to Jewish people?
That’s one of the things that just infuriates me about Trump and his supporters. Until about three days ago, Biden’s “you ain’t black” line was a disgusting example of racial patronizing that was proof of how arrogant and corrupt Democrats have become. But now that Trump has done it, those critics have either been silent or are attacking the press and the left for hypocrisy. (The press is in the tank for the left? Really? Is water wet?)
That seems to be Trump’s MO. He uses the abuses of the left as a “how to” manual and then whines about the double standard when he is called out or punished for things that leftists got away with. You can prove a double standard by going out and replicating the bad behavior of your opponents. The right can (accurately) wail about the double standards and hypocrisy of the left. The end result, however, is that the right becomes the very hypocrites and normalizes the very bad behavior that they once criticized.
I’m sorry, I just don’t see how that is a win, for the right or for the republic.
bob sykes – Even putting the accuracy of Hamas propaganda aside, Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza chose this war. War is hell. If you don’t want one, don’t start one.
Qatar is a curious player they are going for the unity team of salafi and shia its where abu mazen went to work for a time they give chechens quradawi sanctuary.
I guess it’s an obsession.
Sigh.
Not much one can do about it…
File under: Bauxed in.
When one is planning to steal the election (again) with fake mail-in ballots there is no longer a need to cater to Democrat special interest groups such as American Jews.
Hes full of aluminium theres no flavor of latino african american or eskimo that prospers under democrats
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1770424149971722616
And a nauseating peek into what passes these days as American higher education…
“Georgetown Law Professor Published Anti-Semitic Screeds to School’s Scholarly Article Database. When We Asked Questions, She Scrubbed Them.
Lama Abu-Odeh, who teaches seminar on conservative legal thought, tells reporter to ‘f— off’ “—
https://freebeacon.com/campus/georgetown-law-professor-published-anti-semitic-screeds-to-schools-scholarly-article-database-when-we-asked-questions-she-scrubbed-them/
H/T Powerline blog.
Israel makes a lot of its own weapons so what sort of arms can Israel possibly buy from Canada?
Bob Sykes all your statistics are rubbish but putting that aside, Hamas started this war and as the saying goes “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.
@Bob Sykes
Firstly: got any proof for that?
And no, the provably false totalitarian propaganda coming out of the Gaza “Health Ministry” and its puppets do not count as proof. Indeed, they are proof only of how the Nazi Era German Red Cross has been well and truly shown up in terms of a supposed medical or healthcare organization completely betraying its nominal purposes in subservience to totalitarian state terrorism and racial propaganda.
And I do not say that lightly. The German Red Cross in the Third Reich was hideously corrupt, militarized, and perverted to the Nazi cause, with ideological filtration to find “true” National Socialists as well as tacit complicity in a host of Nazi atrocities.
BUT EVEN HITLER DID NOT HAVE THEM MAINTAIN COMMAND BUNKERS OR TORTURE CENTERS RIGHT INSIDE HOSPITALS, compare Al-Shifa. And even most of the Nazi era inflation of German and Axis civilian casualties did not originate with the Red Cross (nor did their WWI predecessors), with things like the infamous Dresden death toll fraud coming straight from Goebbels.
I have literally no reason to trust these people and neither do you.
Secondly: even if I completely ignored all that and accepted the obviously bullshit numbers peddled by totalitarian liars as fact…… have you considered Hamas’s totalitarian militarization of all society in Gaza and deliberate efforts to raise civilian casualties is at fault?
Thirdly: “Civilian” is used too sloppily. Technically Osama Bin Laden was a Civilian, even if he was also a mass murderer and explicitly paramilitary international terrorist. So I’m going to need breakdowns of those.
Fourthly: how many have died not many nations and cultures because of Hamas’s genocidal terrorism, intentionally al targeting civilians for rape, murder, and kidnapping? And what of wider “Palestinian” terrorism going back to at least 1929?
By your omissions and who you support, you reveal very clearly you do not object to the killing and wounding of civilians, even innocent ones. Even when done intentionally as Hamas does. You object to Hamas being punished for such actions and facing the prospect of destruction. That makes you an apologist for and advocate of genocide and terrorism.
Up until this sentence I was willing to at least entertain the possibility you were just staggeringly stupid and ignorant. But this underlines how you are in fact peddling blood libel with malice aforethought.
We know what Genocide by Famine looks like, and literally nothing in the latest Hamas war resembles it….. EXCEPT IRONICALLY HAMAS’S VIOlENT CONFISCATION AND HOARDING OF WHAT AID IT CAN, DEPRIVING IT FROM THE POPULACE AT LARGE.
If the Israelis truly wished to implement genocide by famine, they would have moved to shoot down any foreign aircraft like the USAF planes dropping aid, worked to cut off or blow up any new pier construction, and generally worked to destroy sources of nutrition. That hasn’t happened.
Moreover; as lying scum like you pointedly do not address, any successful such plan would require connivance from the Egyptians. Which you do not address because you cannot.
This is what we call actual genocidal blood libel.
Firstly fuckhead: Israel doesn’t just contain Ashkenazi. As you would know if you studied groups like the Baghdadi Jews (who not coincidentally were genocided in an offshoot of the Holocaust by the spiritual father of the Arab “Balestinian” cause, Amin Al-Husseini, and a Fascist Iraqi junta that took power in Iraq for about five hours before the British came back in and crushed them), the Beta Israel, and a host of others. Most of whom were genocidally purged from their homes throughout the Middle East by the Arab League.
Are you willing to support their return back to their non-European homelands? And under what military guarantees including troops do you propose that to happen to make sure they do not get genocided again?
Secondly: the “European colonial project” is in just about every way morally, practically, economically, and legally superior to the Arab Colonial Projects that dominated the Levant for the past 1,500 some years. And I dare you to try and counter that in any kind of substantial fashion.
Thirdly: are you ignoring how the Israeli War for Independence spent much of its time fighting against the British colonial authorities? Of course you are…
that is a striking level of category error there bob, maybe he read that ridiculous round up, that quillette had fisked,
if he brings up the King David Hotel, I would bring Operation Agatha, conjured by Evelyn Barker, who was the closest thing to General Dyer in the Levant, while he was squiring Kay Antonius, ahem, the film version of Exodus was rather light on the practices the occupation forces engaged in, and well the Grand Mufti is not referred to at all
now does npc bob live in texas, or california, or any place west of the missisippi, then those were all settlements, goose for the gander, the Arabs did much like Santa Ana did or the Beys in North Africa, they mess with the bull and got the horns, in Santa Ana’s case each time he went to war, Mexico lost more territory, after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the authorities decided not give him any more leeway, he was in exile in Cuba at the time, otherwise we own most of Northern Mexico now, this was also around the time, where certain parties including Rufus Devane King took a gander at annexing Cuba, and the Dominican republic, for good measure,
as memory serves they wanted to make them slave states,this is part of what Buchanan was laser focused so he kind of missed Harper’s ferry and the DEgringolade that would become the Civil War,
William Rufus DeVane King is the original namesake of King County Wa.
The Caroline Glick video was excellent.
Israeli intel had indications of the Oct 7 attack but leadership within the (anti Bibi) intel community sat on it.
I see Bob Sykes has taken time off from Putin cheerleading to anti-Semitism.
Wasn’t Ukraine supposed to be defeated by now, Bob?
Kate:
Whether or not Sykes actually believes the Hamas figures he cites is an open question. But he will use them if he can attack Israel and Jews with them. That’s the ground on which many on the left and some on the far right come together
As soon as you get off the Native American land you’re trampling on bobbi but the majority of Israeli Jews who are Sephardic and Mizrahi can stay.
“Firstly fuckhead”
Don’t go so easy on him Turtler.
CC™ takes time out to pursue The Great Orange Whale.
bob sykes has his own little protocol to advance as does the left.
I do not know what Canada makes for Israel, but probably a little known fact is that Canada makes the US Army Stryker Armored Vehicles .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker
Neo,
It’s quickly devolving into ” He might be a SOB but he’s my SOB!”
Aesopfan,
Yeah those old scribes are laughing their asses off!!
Israel is not dependent on the USA, but their high and increasing standard of living is. Plus their own sense of moral superiority. Or senses, from both the pro- and anti- Bibi sides of internal, very unstable, Israeli politics.
How many elections in the last 5 years, or 10?
Their instability is my biggest reason to oppose Proportional Representation with coalition governments, that can and do fall apart when one of the partners leaves the coalition, as also happens too often in Slovakia.
Israel knows some of the hostages are already dead, and many ( most? Almost all?) will not be released alive. They don’t want to be the oppressor occupiers of Gaza, but most other options are worse.
Maybe with 100,000 US soldiers to “stop all war crimes by both sides”—nobody wants that, either (almost).
They should be doing better occupation and rebuilding in N, Gaza, says, confidently advising to something very difficult—because there seems nothing else being offered or discussed.
Clan rule? Ha! Any clan that works with Israel first becomes a target for all the other clans. Tho maybe Israeli forces will allow som clan fighters to revenge kill “Hamas”, tho all killed will be labeled as Hamas.
Tom Grey: “their own [Israelis] sense of moral superiority”
Sounds rather arrogant of them, no? Until you consider the competition …