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State Dept. Plans New $7 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
This comes as President Trump talks up an ethnic cleansing plan for the Gaza Strip
by Connor Freeman | February 8, 2025
The State Department has formally notified Congress of its plans for a massive arms sale to Israel worth over $7 billion, including thousands of missiles and bombs, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington DC this week and Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will "own" Gaza after it is ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Palestinian population.
Per the State Department, Congress was notified of two separate sales, one is worth $6.75 billion. This first sale includes 2,800 500-pound bombs and 166 small-diameter bombs, along with thousands of guidance kits, fuses, bomb components, and other equipment. Deliveries of these bombs would begin later this year. The other package, worth $660 million, includes 3,000 Hellfire missiles and related equipment. Deliveries for this second arms sale are expected to take place by 2028. According to the AP, the use of these missiles will require the IDF to receive supplemental training by the US military.
Officials from the Joe Biden administration informally made Congress aware of the sale last month, at the time they said some of the weapons could be sent from current Pentagon stockpiles but most of the arms would take at least a year, or more likely several years, to deliver.
This comes as a fragile ceasefire in Gaza is still holding, despite the IDF killing dozens of Palestinians in Gaza since it was implemented and amid hostage exchanges on both sides. Israeli officials indicate that the increased military aid and arms sales are meant to compel Netanyahu to see the ceasefire deal through to its second and third phases, following the current 42-day truce. Last month, Trump released a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs that the previous administration had paused over a dispute regarding the Israeli invasion of Rafah last year.
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Making Israel greater checklist since Rabbi Trump took office:
• Lifted hold on 2,000 pound bombs to Israel• Redesignated Ansar Allah as a terrorist group• Waived foreign aid suspension for Israel and Egypt• Removed sanctions on Israeli settlers• Pressured Jordan and Egypt to accept Palestinian refugees• Ordered DOJ to crack down on antisemitism• Proposed US takeover of Gaza• Withdrew from the UNHRC and UNRWA• Restored maximum pressure sanctions on Iran• Sanctioned ICC• $7.4 billion weapons transfer to Israel• New sanctions on shipping companies that move Iranian oil to China• US military coordination on strikes on Gaza• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio states "unwavering commitment to Israel"• Christian Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary stands behind Israel• Rabbi Trump brings Americans back to God - for Israel
• Glenn Beck "begs to become an Israeli citizen"• US Army recruitment at its best in over 15 years - for Israel
• Elon Musk's X (Twitter) uses Israel's Unit 8200 to verify user IDs
• Trump begins sanction campaign against Tehran's "oil network" - for Israel
• Israeli Tel Aviv University receives millions in US funding
This is how Gaza is being turned into what Rabbi Trump referred to as the "Riviera of the Middle East" using 2,000 pound JDAM bombs doing large scale demolition construction projects (part of the India-Middle East-Europe Transport and Economic Corridor) on the cheap:
Did anyone at this Pentagon pep rally for "war fighters" think about asking whether or not US soldiers will be fighting in the Middle East for Israel's large construction project?
With a little help from my friends...
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