The United States will not withhold military aid from Israel, the State Department said Tuesday, after top Biden administration officials warned a month ago that they would consider doing so if the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza did not improve.

State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said there would be no change to U.S. policy at the end of the 30-day deadline the U.S. set for Israel to improve conditions in Gaza. Aid groups and U.N. officials say Israel has largely failed to comply with U.S. demands, a Washington Post analysis found.

  • anachronistEnglish
    111·
    24 hours ago

    Several theories:

    1. Epstein was mossad. There are a lot of tapes with a lot of people.

    2. Lots of Zionist billionaires: America is a plutocracy that acts on their behalf

    3. Some sort of “great game” calculus of keeping a client state for regional instability (Biden apparently believes this based on old speeches)

    4. Biden in particular has a melted brain. Many people have pointed out that Reagan was tougher on Israel than Biden has been. Reagan would set red lines and then say “you will comply.”

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I’m convinced the answer is “Israel absolutely has nukes and will use them if we stop providing them conventional arms”

      But the real answer is probably as mundane as “They are the core of US power projection and intelligence gathering in the middle east, and we really don’t want to lose that level of influence in the region”.