Israel doesn’t need our support. Ukraine does. Easy choice.
Why what’s the difference
Israel’s fighting a small population in a small territory.
Ukraine is fighting the largest country in the world by land mass, with more soldiers than there are Palestinians. And they’re a nuclear power, too.
Israel has also been heavily funded and armed for decades
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The first victim in war is the truth
-Alfred E Newman
Sounds like Russia was successful. They met with the Hamas a while back and it seems this is the outcome
Yes, when I read the title of this post, I thought that Putin was behind that, and he certainly is
“Stretching its ability to support Ukraine”…for now.
The problem isn’t that we can’t do both because we certainly can, the problem is that we’re running out of money to do it UNDER CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS BILLS.
Congress will eventually return to session and more appropriations bills will pass; the only questions are how much and how quickly it will be done.
Why do you need to support Israel at all beyond the amount that was previously being done? They’re not in an actual war and they’re not having to defend against an invasion like Ukraine is.
Geopolitically speaking, you should completely pull out of Israel. Seriously, do it. Pull all funding from Israel.
Why is Israel, who is hardly the victim in their conflict and strangely very well funded by US taxpayers ,being conflated with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a dictatorship?
The only constant between those two is the fascism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The White House said it was “running out of runway” on supporting both Ukraine and Israel as US Republican lawmakers warned they would protest any funding request for military aid from the Biden administration for the two crisis-hit nations.
Mr Kirby was answering a question at a daily briefing on the administration meeting the immediate needs of Ukraine and Israel along with the continuing fight to elect a House Speaker.
The National Security Council coordinator also said the House Speaker position was critical in terms of bringing legislation to the floor and moving things forward.
The White House has been considering a budget request tying money for these two conflicts together to increase the chances that the heavily-debated assistance for Ukraine will be approved.
He told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US will send more military assistance to help Israel fight Hamas.
The US is already rushing munitions and military equipment to Israel and has deployed a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean as deterrence.
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While there is no evidence to support it, some experts are pointing at Putin’s lukewarm response after the attack, and the fact that this division of efforts is immensely helpful to his invasion in Ukraine, and are wondering if he worked with Iran to help arm and plan this attack by Hamas.
So, in other words, “stretching its ability to support Ukraine” was the whole point.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4250708-putins-fingerprints-are-on-hamas/
I too enjoy consuming conspiracy theories dressed up as news
Israel is like David and Goliath, but this time Goliath wins.
