Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The United State of Israel

Editor's note: Israel is the "deep state." There is no doubt about that. The US has one single motivating impulse as a country and its politicians and leaders all support: The survival of Israel. Your life and welfare as an American is of no concern to Israel. Your life as an American is of no concern to politicians you elect who you mistakenly think are serving you. They aren't. They are elected for the money, power and greed and subservience to Israel. Elon Musk says "Americans don't have a voice." He's right. They don't. These politicians serve the US corporation as executives of that corporation who all subsequently serve Israel. These munitions being provided to Israel are all part of Israel's large construction project in the Middle East. Many of these US-supplied munitions dropped on Iran have killed a reported 935 Iranians. The IDF are unloading into Palestinians waiting in lines for humanitarian aid while 1,500 Israeli soldiers will attend Jewish summer camps in America this year. Now the question is: Is Israel an outpost of the US financial empire and is this about saving the US dollar? To save the US dollar it is going to cost the lives of thousands of Palestinians. 
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US Approves $510 Million Arms Deal for Israel

The deal is for more than 7,000 JDAM kits, which turn bombs into precision-guided weapons

by Dave DeCamp | Jun 30, 2025

The Trump administration has approved a new arms deal for Israel that will provide the country with $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that turn bombs into precision-guided weapons, as the US continues to provide military aid to support the genocidal war in Gaza.

According to the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the State Department notified Congress of the sale of 3,845 JDAMS for 2,000-pound BLU-109 bombs and 3,280 JDAMS for 500-pound MK 82 bombs. The deal also includes US "government and contractor engineering, logistics, and technical support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support."
BLU-109 bombs with JDAM kits (US Air Force photo)

The DSCA said Boeing is the principal contractor for the deal. The notification of the potential deal begins a time period when US lawmakers could potentially block the sale, but there's little opposition to US military support for Israel within Congress, despite the many war crimes the US is implicated in by providing Israel with weapons.

Fragments of bombs with US-provided JDAM kits have been found at the scene of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have massacred many civilians. In 2023, Human Rights Watch said it identified JDAM fragments that were found in two airstrikes on homes in central Gaza that killed 43 civilians, including 19 children, and 14 women.

It's unclear at this point how the deal will be financed, but many arms sales to Israel are funded by US military aid, and US assistance to Israel has significantly increased since October 7, 2023. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in that time, US funding has covered an estimated 70% of Israel’s war-related military spending.
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It's cheaper to use US-manufactured JDAM retrofitted munitions than CAT bulldozers in Gaza:


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