White House makes 2,000-pound bombs available to Israel, undoing Biden's pause
Source: Reuters
January 25, 2025 2:21 PM EST Updated 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's White House has instructed the U.S. military to release a hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, a White House source told Reuters on Saturday.
The move was widely expected. Biden put the hold on the delivery of those bombs due to concern over the impact they could have in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. A ceasefire to halt the war was recently agreed.
The Biden administration's particular concern had been over the use of such large bombs in the city of Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians in Gaza had taken refuge.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-makes-2000-pound-bombs-available-israel-undoing-bidens-pause-2025-01-25/
Short article at post time.
WarGamer
(16,071 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,219 posts)Pototan
(2,230 posts)Pass the popcorn.
DENVERPOPS
(10,523 posts)Jill Stein has been Trump's "back channel" connection to Putin.....among others
Remember all the U.S. Senators that dined with Putin, in Russia, for July 4th???????
rampartd
(1,307 posts)why vote for the people who are trying to slow down the destruction?
MLWR
(53 posts)who just couldn't vote for Harris/Walz because Gaza, take note. If on top of that, you actually voted for trump/vance, take note.
LisaM
(28,886 posts)I have said it before, and I stand by it, that no one wanted this war to end more than Biden. To lay the blame on his administration was no more than falling for propaganda. Unfortunately, lots of people did.
betsuni
(27,404 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,606 posts)in2herbs
(3,370 posts)An article dated January 21, 2025 in ForeignPolicy.com, gives a reason why the cease fire brokered by Biden between Israel and Gaza is something we should follow. The final sentence of the article states:
If fighting in Gaza resumes after the first six-week phase of the current cease-fire, and Trump continues to provide Israel with arms and military aid as it again bombs and starves Palestinian civilians, he could also be charged with aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes.
Bold is mine.
Edit: The cited article explains that this is action The Hague/ICC could take against F47.
Hekate
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Lonestarblue
(12,155 posts)The NYT reported today that Trump has asked jordan and Egypt to take in all the Palestinians from Gaza, which means that they will never be allowed to return and Israel will continue their illegal theft of Palestinian lands by handing them over to Israeli settlers. Without Gaza, Palestinians will never have a country of their own, especially as Israel is now killing more of them in the West Bank. The latest atrocity was an IDF soldier who shot a 2-year-old in the head, claiming he was firing at militants.
I support Israels right to exist in their own country as determined in 1948. I do not support their constant theft of Palestinian lands. And yes both sides have been aggressors in this never-ending war, but Palestinians had lived in Palestine for many hundreds of years. European Jews had not, and naturally resisted someone taking their lands from them. The British handled the situation badly, as did nearby Arab nations. Better negotiations at the time might have spared a lot of bloodshed.
Baitball Blogger
(48,876 posts)doing that Trump won.