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.

  • oce 🐆
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    1 month ago

    Sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil, and you did good in the difference.

    • @fallowseed
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      -61 month ago

      and sometimes you have a conscience that doesn’t allow you to rationalize away complicity in genocide

      • Flying Squid
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        31 month ago

        You are rationalizing away your complicity in the two genocides that are happening in the U.S. right now. To the point that you’ve denied that they are happening in the very recent past.

        • @fallowseed
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          01 month ago

          “I voted for Kamala to prevent my own gay daughter from being part of Trump’s genocide.”

          • Flying Squid
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            11 month ago

            Yes, that is one of the two genocides you are claiming is not happening. You don’t need to remind me.

      • oce 🐆
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        11 month ago

        If your choice increases the magnitude of the genocide, how could it reduce your complicity?

        • @fallowseed
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          -11 month ago

          ‘if if if’ nevermind what is and has been happening… a party should lose support for genocide, especially when that side is ostensibly for social justice.

          • oce 🐆
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            30 days ago

            Again, it’s not a matter of support, it’s a matter of chosing the lesser evil to reduce the potential negative impact. Similarly, if the only way to prevent far right from getting elected is to vote for the right, you would rather not participate in preventing the far right from getting elected?

            • @fallowseed
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              -129 days ago

              if two parties are both ignoring the population, maybe a third party should be considered a more serious option… this settling for lesser of two evils amounts to a lack of vision- have you have stopped believing in accountability? is it merely impossible and pointless to think about?

              • oce 🐆
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                129 days ago

                I hope you can develop more options in the future, but for this election, there were only two.

                • @fallowseed
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                  -128 days ago

                  real quick: how do these options develop if we keep telling ourselves that?

                  • oce 🐆
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                    -128 days ago

                    You have to work on building a party and preparing a candidate a couple of years in advance, you can’t do that 3 months before the vote, at this point you can only vote for the lesser evil. Are you working on that now?