It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer on hold earlier in the month.

The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday.

It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold this month. The administration has said it paused that earlier transfer to keep Israel from using the bombs in its growing offensive in the crowded southern Gaza city of Rafah.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      147·
      6 months ago

      If people didn’t PTSD themselves into staying with Biden for the last 7 months we’d have a different candidate by now.

      This election has the worst two candidates ever. If this isn’t the time to jump ship then it will never happen.

      • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        151·
        6 months ago

        If people wont break the duopoly when the lesser of two evils turns into the lesser of two genocides then they will never break away. Nothing will convince these people to actually support other parties and Im tired of hearing them pretend that’s not true.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          87·
          6 months ago

          There’s still 6 months. I liked what Cornel West told Mehdi Hasan during his interview. It was along the lines of

          “I’m not likely to win but if all the stars align then I can’t capitalize on it if I wasn’t there”.

          A lot of life comes down to participating and a large part of the result can be luck. Even if there’s a 1/3000 chance that a third party would win, this would be one of the more likely elections in which that could happen if a massive migration wave happens from the Democrats to a third party candidate.

          Most people are voting Democrat because they feel there’s no other option. The second they feel the wind blowing differently they will jump ship.

          • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            At this point all we can do is pray and hope the ballots get hit with a heatwave and the name checked on them smear into a third party candidate’s name while gamma waves do the same with the digital ballots.

            It really feels like people in this country don’t want a better future. They truely want the best of two awful ones but only for themselves, screw everyone not in your immediate vicinity.