• lutillian@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    We’re not bound to sell weapons but we’re bound to provide aid by a combination of Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement (1952) which I can’t find the text of from my phone… Need to wait till I’m near a computer to try again and Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (1991) which I linked elsewhere in the thread.

    https://www.dsca.mil/programs/excess-defense-articles-eda Does explicitly allow the sale of arms to a list of nations from my understanding. This is a huge rabbit hole of laws and then exceptions to laws.

    whether I personally agree any of this is right is a different story here

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      8 months ago

      None of that matters if they’re committing war crimes. That was the entire point of the Leahy Amendments and later the Leahy Law.

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        8 months ago

        Yes. That’s a question that has been raised by the US department of state that we might see an answer to in our life times of we’re lucky.

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          8 months ago

          Not likely. The Department of State has been shielding them from Leahy for decades. They setup a special committee just for Israel. To shield them from accountability for things like shooting protest medics on purpose; continuing to settle the West Bank in blatant violation of international law; holding thousands of Palestinians without charge; and just so much bombing of civilians.