The US is reported to have made more than 100 weapons sales to Israel, including thousands of bombs, since the start of the war in Gaza, but the deliveries escaped congressional oversight because each transaction was under the dollar amount requiring approval.
“This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said.
She added that, in exploiting the loophole, the Biden administration was following the steps of its predecessor. “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight,” Tolany said.
In defending its continued arms sales to Israel, despite ever more public misgivings about its conduct of the Gaza war, the administration has argued that they are part of the US’s basic commitment to Israel’s self defence.
I’m not a Biden fan, but I’m a huge fan of accuracy and fact checking.
And people here are making constant errors and telling lies.
It’s important to set the record straight, even if that upsets people.
Non-practicing, I see.
Has nobody told you that it’s weird to refer yourself in the third person plural or that it makes “here” redundant?
True, that’s why I’m doing it. It’s a waste of time and effort in this case, though, since you’re obviously as blind a follower of Biden as anyone in the Trump cult is of the Mango Mussolini…
Is this the alt account of the guy that was making up stories before and pretending other people were saying them?
You know switching account isn’t going to make people believe you anymore if you keep making up stories right?
You’re using the same baseless insults and the same lack of evidence
Nope. I have 3 accounts: 2 called Viking_Hippie and one VikingHippie.
You know accusing people who call you on ignoring the opposite of alt abuse isn’t going to buy your denials of obvious reality, right?
You know that stubbornly denying the obvious will often result in being called on it by more than one person, right? You must know from experience, unless that’s another part of reality that you just block out because it’s inconvenient to your tribalism.
As for evidence, read the damn article we’re commenting on! It has administration officials confirming and (dishonestly) defending the arms sales ffs!
I read it yesterday, I see you have nothing to add but baseless insults. Although they are base insults.
Probably important to note then that I asked a question, and you called it an accusation. Factually incorrect.
You have the same insults, same lack of evidence.
But apparently promptly forgot about it since you keep insisting that there’s no proof of the Biden administration aiding the genocide and the article contains confession and justification from the administration itself.
At worst, I’m impolitely stating the obvious. You ARE ignoring the facts that don’t fit your narrative of the Biden administration being pure as the driven snow and that IS some shitty cult behavior much akin to that of the Trump cult. That’s nowhere near baseless. That’s an apt comparison.
Asking me if I’m the alt of some other guy who you resent for also pointing out your denials of reality is syntactically a question, yes, but there’s an obvious accusation implicit to it. Don’t play even more dumb than you are.
Again with your counterfactual bullshit. Just go give the old man a rusty trombone like you obviously want to.
Baseless. I can read with the aid of comprehensive political context.
I understand gEnoCIde JoE is a hot topic for you right now, but you parroting bandwagon sentiments doesn’t mean that you’re correct. In this case, it means the opposite.
I’m not ignoring any facts, I just don’t let one fact blind me from other facts. There is more than one fact in any situation, and facts are not mutually exclusive.
Your arguments are inaccurate and baseless.
And then you make another sexual insult. Insults are impolite, but they are not merely impolite.
You are not “impolitely stating the obvious”, you’re making gratuitous and obscene sexual insults about other users.
I understand that you’re upset you can’t refute any of my facts or apparently even my opinions, but insulting me and throwing tantrums isn’t doing anything for you.
Can you, though? You don’t seem to be doing a very good job of it at all.
I’ve been appalled by the atrocities of Israel and the American government’s complicity therein for all of the 20+ years I’ve been aware of both.
What specifically do you even think I’m wrong about? Because unlike you, I have stated my case much more clearly than “nuh-uh, Biden is perfect”
That other people are finally beginning to catch on and stop letting the powerful get away with denying the obvious doesn’t make it a band wagon. You sound like you’d have scoffed at desegregation as a fad issue if you were an adult in the 60s.
That’s literally what you’re doing and urging me to do.
Translation to honesty and specificity:
“I pretend that Biden isn’t doing everything he can to retain unconditional support for a genocidal apartheid regime because it’s much more convenient to my narrative to pretend that his feeble public statements about extreme atrocities being “over the top” makes him a forceful and principled crusader for all that is good and true”
“Biden’s administration are actively supporting genocide by sending as many weapons as they possibly can without congressional approval” and “Biden’s administration is working in good faith to stop the genocide” ARE mutually exclusive, though, and only the former is actually true.
Again with the projection. Don’t you ever get tired of repeating the same old lies?
Yeah, I was being facetious because I’m tired of your bullshit.
Nothing gratuitous about pointing out how obsequious you are being. The sexual imagery is merely a colorful metaphor about your submissiveness and self-debasement for an accomplice to war crimes who doesn’t care if you live or die.
Annoyed, sure. Even exasperated. Your ramblings don’t bear enough significance to warrant any stronger emotions, though. You’re like a stone in my shoe, not a mortal wound. Get over yourself, please.
I have thoroughly debunked your moronic claims ages ago. You just aren’t smart enough to understand it.
Your “facts” are nothing BUT opinions, see above.
Not throwing any tantrums, but yeah, insulting you IS doing something: making your continued pompous self-congratulatory insistence on not being an idiot less annoying. It’s specifically doing that for me and I don’t give a fuck whether or not it does anything for you 🤷
That’s not what “facetious” means.
In fact, you’re using many of your words incorrectly.
And then you just make a few things up, throw another tantrum and a few baseless accusations and insults without any evidence, wrapping up your tantrum with more insults and make-believes.
There’s nothing substantial to respond to here, are you hoping I respond to all the fake things and insults you’re writing so you’ll have a straw man to knock down?
Crying about how unfair things are because you can’t formulate an argument isn’t going to get you anywhere.