Josh Paul, a veteran State Department official who resigned in protest over Gaza policy, discusses the military sales.
Health officials in Gaza said Thursday that the official death toll from Israel’s 10-month war has topped 40,000, though that is believed to be a vast undercount of the true figure. The grim milestone was reached just days after the Biden administration greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel, including 50 F-15 fighter jets, tank ammunition, mortar rounds, tactical vehicles and advanced air-to-air missiles. The U.S.
But I think the president has been wrong in terms of his support for Netanyahu. I happen to agree with the International Criminal Court that what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza, the massive killings, the destruction of the healthcare system, the destruction of housing, the bombing of every university, and now creating a situation where tens of thousands of children face starvation — the United States, in my view, should not be providing another nickel to Netanyahu and his war machine.
In terms of what can be done about this, first let’s look at the timing. You know, these sales have been pending for several weeks, several months in some cases. It’s interesting that they come after Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit. That is a way, I think, of avoiding having sort of congressional action ongoing to try and block these sales while he was here. They also come several months before the election, in the dead of August.
At the same time, as you just mentioned, of course, you know, within the last few weeks, Israel killed the leader of Hamas and also their lead negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh. And that does not seem like the action of a government that is intent on recovering its hostages from Hamas’s grip. You know, one does not kill the person you are negotiating with and then expect to achieve a ceasefire. So, I think the odds remain very long.
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