The Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel

So why tf can’t we do this for Ukraine?

Bro, it's like they wanna lose so badly next year election. Listen to the people voting for you, for fuck sake.

I feel like I once again have to ask why? Why does Israel need these weapons so badly that you have to bypass even Congressional approval? Republicans wouldn't exactly oppose such an approval, they haven't shown any lack of support for supporting Israel, just Ukraine. And Israel certainly doesn't need the weapons for defense, as claimed by the State Department in the article.

Israel is very handedly and with minimal resistance killing thousands of Palestinians. They don't really need any additional arsenals.

Unless this is in preparation for Netanyahu's claimed invasion of Lebanon and beyond? Is Biden openly supporting the expansion of the conflict?

The absolute refusal to look at the mountain of video evidence of genocide is appalling.

Why is this called a weapons sale?

So why can't Biden sign an executive order to cancel student debt?

Regarding the "it's not aid, it's a sale" point that some have brought up, we give israel billions of dollars every single year and biden has pledged 100+ billion more since the ramping up of the genocide. Whether they're paying for it now or not, they're doing it with our money.

Question, if I vote for Biden and he wins and keeps supporting genocide, does that make me partly responsible for these kids dying? Don't love the prospect of having dead inocent children's blood on my hands.

vote Biden to make things better he is not Trump

Yeah that's all accurate. Also under increasing pressure from Biden. Not sure how anyone serious can blame Biden for Israel's response, though. They have a national mandate similar to the US after 9/11. You think the president of France or something could have called off George W. from Iraq?

No. At any rate, even if the current right wing leadership on Israel literally genocides every Palestinians, the US is not going to let Israel deplete its readiness for war with Iran . If anything, America will likely use this opportunity to increase Israel's defense preparedness, just as we have been doing with Kiev and Taiwan. After all, right now, doing so is a proportionate response, from Iran's vantage, to Iran's sponsoring of Hamas.

I agree Israel's ongoing prosecution, to such extent, is out of proportion. Unfortunately, Hamas has apparently erected tunnel warfare capabilities that were beyond what US and Israeli intelligence knew of, according to NYT reporting, and also, and this is the big one, America doesn't control Israel's national defenses.

The middleeast is undeniably the single most important region of the world as far as global security and Israel is undeniably the only (flawed) democracy in the region.

I don't know what card sheep in this thread think Biden has to play with Israel, here. There is literally no appetite in Washington from anyone to abandon Israel as it will 100% lead to an Iran-Israel war that might kill a hundred million people. Like let's get real about the stakes here. There aren't, 5,000,000 people in all of Palestine. That's half of Iran's capital city, which Israel will turn into a parking lot before it surrenders to the "supreme leader" of the backwards ass shithole of conservative nationalism that is Iran.