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Are there any statistics on weapons sales to isreal before and during Biden, and then before and during the current conflict?
It’s easy to blame the current president. I am just suggesting to look historically, to
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Seems that Biden has put restrictions on settlers using US arms.
Did he? when?
He put restrictions on settlers using violence of any kind, not just those using US arms to do it.
It's pretty weak sauce TBH. As the one commentator noted in the article, the impact on the ground is a little limited, and he has a bunch of other things he could be doing instead -- like, for example, not sending them more weapons by the hundreds of millions, as a start.
Not just weak sauce. Biden lifted those sanctions after Israeli right winger Smotrich threatened him.
They allowed Israeli banks to let them buy food and housing and a couple other things with their money. Before that, their domestic Israeli accounts were frozen completely, which I didn't even know was possible.
Smotrich actually specifically used the word "lifted" when he described what hasn't happened yet that he wants to have happen in the future.
I'm not sure why we're arguing about this -- it sounds like we're in agreement that anything Biden is doing in regards to Gaza is catastrophically undone by the fact that he's still arming Israel and providing diplomatic cover for them. Everything else is just hemming and hawing around that main point, yes.
I'm not sure we're arguing, our only disagreement seems to be that I believe Biden has not even provided the slightest of pushback.
Smotrich threatening to economically shut off the West Bank is pretty insane be cause Biden can economically shut off israel. Smotrich is not really the person that holds the leverage.