According to Reuters, the United States’ top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it had asked for, in part because US President Joe Biden’s administration was not willing to provide at least some of them.
“Although we’ve been supporting them with capability, they’ve not received everything they’ve asked for,” said General Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Some of that is because they’ve asked for stuff that we either don’t have the capacity to provide or not willing to provide, not right now,” Brown added, while speaking at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
Later on Thursday, a spokesperson for Brown dressed up his comments and said they were in reference to “a standard practice before providing military aid to any of our allies and partners.”
They are only doing this for votes in Minnesota and Michigan. The Islamists in those states didn’t come out for him in the primaries and are threatening not to vote for him. This administration does everything for political reasons, not because it’s the right thing to do.
Washington gives $3.8 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, its longtime ally. The United States has been rushing air defenses and munitions to Israel, but some Democrats and Arab American groups have criticized the Biden administration’s support of Israel.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington earlier this week, and the Pentagon said that security assistance for Israel had been discussed.
Israel canceled a recent meeting in D.C. but has agreed to reschedule.
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It is not our job to provide weapons, to continue and escalate foreign wars, to ANY COUNTRY
As a matter of fact it is, once you prevent a country from arming themselves.
Thanks for some thoughts about US interests and basic reasoning. The people here are very neocon when it comes to Israel, similar to Haley. They state ridiculous things, such as the Palestinians have 250,000 precision guided missiles.To believe such propaganda indicates a basic gullibility. If those missiles existed, they certainly would be used now. Or, perhaps the Haley-like people on this site would actually believe they are being used, with no targets of any significance ever hit. Trump’s statement was that he wants this conflict over. and these folks interpret it as he wants Israel to finish overrunning Gaza, The Palestinians are now packed into a tiny area about 1/4 the original size, in a modern Warsaw ghetto. They are nearly defenseless. Israel gets $4 billion a year in military support from us, yet folks here will claim Israel is running out of weapons. I cannot fix them.
The US is by far the biggest distributor of arms in the world. We are now the greatest source of instability on Earth.
Get your facts straight, you idiot. Obviously you don’t know the difference between Hamas Palestinians and Hezbollah. To spell it out for you in a manner you can understand – Neither Hamas nor the Palestinians have those missiles. Those missiles are part of the Hezbollah arsenal in LEBANON, shipped in from Iran via Syria. You have repeatedly made this claim and proved your complete ignorance of the region.
A not so innocent and not really democratic Ukraine gets untold billions and an essentially innocent Israel is attacked by nation terrorists but does not get the tools to defend itself?
MADNESS!!!
The only madness is giving israhell anything! Including the 32 billion above board plus at least twice that below the table and ‘contracts’ every year from the taxpayer along with weapons and technology. What the govt doesnt give them they steal, use what they want and give to the redchinese. Get a clue – (((they))) are our greatest enemy. Even nutty yahoo admitted that when (((they))) are thru sucking the US dry that they will crumple it up and throw it away. That sound you hear is paper wrinkling…
Israel has given more to the US than what it’s received. But Jew-hating bigots are too blind to see and understand.
There you go again like a neocon leftist, personally attacking people for the rational positions they have, using the familiar victimization.
Cite us one thing Israel gave us, they did not even participate in the 2 gulf wars.
Just a couple of so much more. They have given improvements to military technology to the US. They are the primary source for intelligence in the region. These are just two that are very well known. So your ignorance abounds.
The sound you make is bullcaca.
How old are you John? I am old enough to remember the early days of Israel, I know it warts and all. What do you know? Interesting that you documented none of your charges against Israel. Could you under oath prove you are not anti-Semitic?
How long have you been an enemy of God?
You gave a perfect example of the self brainwashing among many Christians, To equate support for Israel to support for God is not sensible.
Thank you for commenting here on this neocon site.
“israhell” is one of the key terms used by Hamas and its supporters.
Thanks for showing your true colors john844.
The madness is that you do not know Israel gets $4 billion in arms support from us a year, which scales up to about $200 billion a year for a nation our size. Israel is very armed. Their foe is nearly defenseless, with no air support, artillery, other heavy equipment. You are badly misinformed.