State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’

The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.

The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.

  • GarlicToastEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    This one is a sale, not a donation. This Trump greasing representatives from within the US that has weapons manufacturing in their region.

      • GarlicToastEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        If Israel pays the money goes to American workers. Your student loans are the results of systematic failure. Universities don’t need mega stadiums, students shouldn’t need to buy books, admin staff shouldn’t make so much. You also have a weird structure where top researchers make buttload of money, but TA down the pyramid are starving.

        In sane parts of the world universities build libraries, not stadiums. The life of TAs are hard, but they don’t go into debt, top researchers don’t get to pocket piles of gold, they get more research resources and admin staff get normal salaries.

        tl;dr the money is there to give you almost free education, but it’s not a priority.

    • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Even if this is technically true, if there is a certain amount of aid and a certain percent goes to US deals that are exported, and then the aid gets bigger with the expectation of larger more expensive export deals, I’m just not sure if this is meaningfully true rather than technically true. I am not downvoting you, BTW, I appreciate the correction, but just belive you are are confusing a semantic difference with actual ignorance.