Biden supports $735m arms deal with Israel

Thomas Henry
2 min readMay 19, 2021

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The Biden organization has supported a $735 million arms deal to Israel in the midst of Tel Aviv’s continuous hostility on the Gaza Strip, as indicated by a report distributed yesterday.

The choice to support the deal was made on 5 May, about seven days before Israel started bombarding the Strip, the Washington Post announced. notwithstanding, at that point, Israel was severely suppressed Palestinian fights against its arranged constrained removal of Palestinians from the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood of involved East Jerusalem, and it proceeded with an attack of admirers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The choice to greenlight the deal, which is predominantly comprised of Joint Direct Attack Munitions, has blended resistance among certain individuals from US President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party, including Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, as the loss of life from Israel’s hostile against Gaza keeps on mounting.

Omar said soon after the Post’s story was distributed that the deal ought not to be finished “while wrongdoings against mankind are being carried out with our sponsorship.”

“It would be horrifying for the Biden Administration to proceed with $735 million in accuracy guided weaponry to [Israeli PM] Netanyahu with no surprises in the wake of heightening viciousness and assaults on regular citizens.”

“In the event that this goes through this will be viewed as a green light for proceeded with heightening and will undermine any efforts to expedite a truce,” added Omar.

In any event, 212 Palestinians have been slaughtered, including 61 youngsters, in Israeli assaults on the Gaza Strip since 10 May, as indicated by the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry. In excess of 11,305 individuals have likewise been harmed and many structures obliterated or harmed in the Israeli attack. In excess of 52,000 Palestinians have been dislodged.

In Israel, ten individuals have been executed.

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Thomas Henry
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