Sec. Austin Confirms Admin Withholding Ammunition From Israel Over Disagreement on Rafah
Rafah is Hamas’ last stronghold from which it continues to fire rockets, including at the humanitarian aid crossing where four Israeli soldiers were killed just days ago.
Didn’t…didn’t the Democrats go scorched earth on President Donald Trump for something similar?
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed the administration has withheld payload ammunition from Israel as officials assess the situation in Rafah.
That assessment includes Israel’s plan for an offensive in Rafeh, especially the safety of civilians:
“We’ve been very clear… from the very beginning that Israel shouldn’t launch a major attack into Rafah without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battlespace. And again, as we have assessed the situation, we have paused one shipment of high payload munitions,” he tells a Senate hearing.
“We’ve not made a final determination on how to proceed with that shipment.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin said today during a Congressional Hearing when asked about the roughly $1 Billion in Arms Sales to Israel that have been Delayed in the last Week by the Biden Administration, that they are “Re-Examining the Shipment” due to Israeli… pic.twitter.com/Cqw3vQjsAs
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 8, 2024
“This is obscene. This is absurd. Give Israel what it needs to fight the war it cannot afford to lose.” @LindseyGrahamSC slams Defense Secretary Austin for withholding munitions from Israel. pic.twitter.com/xam9Xo58Og
— Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) May 8, 2024
Rumors circulated last week that the Biden administration halted the delivery of arms to Israel to pressure the Jewish state from invading Rafah.
Weird. I don’t hear about any pressure on Ukraine as it defends itself from Russia.
You know, like how Israel is doing against Hamas…which still has a ton of hostages!
Earlier this week, Hamas fired rockets from Rafah, the terrorist group’s last stronghold, toward the humanitarian crossing from Gaza into Israel. The rockets landed near civilian shelters, injuring several people.
Hamas boasted about hitting the humanitarian area. Israel had to close the crossing, stopping trucks from delivering aid.
I don’t believe in coincidences, so I’m not surprised Hamas chose to strike after the Biden admin supposedly guaranteed the terrorists that Israel would not invade and end the war if they agreed to the latest deal.
Israel said no way:
The Israeli government rejected the Biden administration’s unilateral guarantee to abandon the military mission to capture Rafah, where Hamas’s terrorist leaderships is hiding behind Israeli hostages serving as human shields.
According to a U.S. intelligence sources, Hamas’s Gaza-based chief Yahya “Sinwar has approximately 15 to 20 hostages surrounding him and his family in Gaza,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported this week.
On Monday, Israel began targeted strikes on Rafah.
“The IDF began a precise counterterrorism operation in the eastern Rafah area; Following intelligence that indicated that the Rafah Crossing in eastern Rafah was being used for terrorist purposes,” the Israeli military said in a press release Tuesday morning. “IDF troops obtained operational control of the Gazan side of the crossing.”
As they always do, the IDF encouraged citizens to leave for Al-Mawasi. The military set up hospitals and tents and brought more food, water, and supplies.
The IDF has expanded the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi to accommodate the increased levels of aid flowing into Gaza. This expanded humanitarian area includes field hospitals, tents and increased amounts of food, water, medication and additional supplies.
In accordance with the… pic.twitter.com/si47k9FCCz
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 6, 2024
A precise counterterrorism operation to eliminate Hamas terrorists and infrastructure within specific areas of eastern Rafah began overnight, based on intelligence. pic.twitter.com/L2uVEdCVv9
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 7, 2024
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More trying to placate the Hamas wing of the democrat party, and it still won’t be enough Biden. The Muslim Americans hate you, the Hamas youth brigade hate you, and now the Jews hate you too. Well done. At least its something we can all agree on.
The munitions that the Biden administration is pausing to Israel are 2,000 pound bombs, each one of which could demolish multiple square blocks of a city. Israel never had any intention of using such bombs in Rafa, so the pause of these munitions is merely political and meaningless in the war against Hamas. Israel will not use 2,000 pound mega bombs in Rafa, but will instead use precision munitions, so nothing has changed.
A senior U.S. official said Tuesday Washington had paused a shipment consisting of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs.
As I have mentioned in the past, Israel is capable of deploying other weapons which will cause much more pale suffering, one example being Napalm. They can take all petroleum from Gaza for that purpose.
Oh will you shut the hell up, you blithering idiot.
A reminder for Pales sympathizers, Ashkenazi are far smarter than than their enemies. The difference is staggering. They will eat their enemies lunch.
Now that they have shown their nature in America, we will eat their lunch.
@Thud:
Why are you here? I have yet to see you contribute anything worth reading.
What petroleum? As far as I know the Gaza strip has none.
Also, Protocol 3 of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons says: “It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.” Now Israel is not a signatory to that protocol, so it’s not bound by it, but can you see the EU, the ICC, or even the Biden administration caring about a “technicality” like that?! There would be sanctions, warrants for the “war criminals”, etc., regardless of the facts. And the Israeli courts would probably jump in with glee and order arrests and extraditions.
Hamas stored lots of fuel, it would be funny to give that fuel back in the form of Napalm, especially when one considers that they gang raped women and then set them on fire.
You mean JR was wrong again? Quelle surprise!
“1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs”
Seems not so likly these would be used in Rafah, but exactly the kind of thing they’d use to hit Iran.
In the name of Rafah, the Barry III Administration is protecting Iran — stifling munitions when red-line “don’t’s” didn’t work.
Watch as Israel eliminates dependency on American munitions, who can blame them.
“eliminates dependency on American munitions,”
Those gas fields in the Med are interesting — Natl Gas is a feed stock for a lot of materials.
I don’t know where they get their own steel in=country. Unless they found something new, the regional mines haven’t been great for a long time.
A 2000lb bomb will NOT level “multiple square blocks of a city.”
It will do significant damage to one block.
By the way, “precision” munitions, as you term it, are actually termed JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) and are breally nothing more than a guidance system for a dumb iron bomb.
And yes, there are such things as 2000lb JDAMs.
Yep. A single 2,000 lbs bomb is NOT going to destroy/level ‘multiple square blocks’. No way, no how.
JR, your head is stuck as far up your ass as the Biden Crime Syndicate! ! !
Sorry I think my point still stands that this is a political stunt meant to quell the terrorist branch of the democrat party , and it won’t appease them but it will piss of his Jewish supporters. While I’m no munitions expert I can certainly say that bidens move emboldens Israeli enemies and does nothing to help Palestinians.
Not to mention it makes America one great ally!
Let me count the ways…
— Placate the Screaming D radical wing.
— Posture for the international righteous coalition.
— Scare “allies” into doing whatever we demand this instant, or we’ll just — what, we had an agreement? You’re cute.
— Hamstring Israel.
— Protect Iran.
I count five. That’s a five-fer. Amazing the kind of opportunistic payoffs you can get when you’re completely amoral.
If so, good. I don’t mind Biden fooling the Palestinian side, which needs constant emotional management, as long as he’s giving Israel the support it needs.
Nailed it, JR. Well done.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/biden-commits-to-saving-hamas-will-cut-off-offensive-weapons-to-israel-if-it-enters-rafah/
Where do you get your information? You are so wrong.
If anybody in congress had any balls there being impeachment over this. But, this is why I’m not even going to bother going out to support these people. They don’t support us
So that the d/prog controlled Senate will simply refuse to act on the charges as they did with Articles v Mayorkas? Seems like a waste of time and energy at this point.
Once the next Congress is seated perhaps with a GoP Senate majority then sure, do all the investigations, impeachment votes in the HoR we can image…..but only after voting during to secure the damn border, gutting entire Federal Agencies and Dept and eliminating 15-20% of the federal budget. Do the meaningful heavy lifting first.
GOP Senate majority? That’d take a miracle.
Not really. The Senate map is very favorable for the GoP this election cycle. The d/prog are defending 2x ish the number of seats and several seats are in Red States; West Virginia, Montana, Ohio and so on. Senate control IS absolutely up for grabs, no divine intervention needed.
Right, we can’t even stop those Traders from giving the pedophile in Chief everything you want but they’re going to do all of that? Pull the other one
Bruh, I would prefer that the Biden Admin NOT be given jack crap. If it were me chairing the HoR appropriations committee I would place a 5% reduction in the budget request per instance where a particular Agency/Dept had refused to provide information to the committee of jurisdiction. That would be cumulative.
The real point is there’s plenty of actual things the HoR could do on its own without the Senate. The budget being the prime power of the HoR. Besides the budget the HoR could focus on the CRA (Congressional Review Act) to vote to overturn Agency rules. Just like the demands for info the HoR can hold firm on a much lower budget if the Senate refuses to act. This also makes it tough for vulnerable d/prog Senators in Red/Purple States b/c when the HoR says ‘X agency rule screws over Citizens/Taxpayers’ and that d/prog Senator refuses to assist bringing a floor vote or votes against it their election opponent can make lots of Hay off it.
I would like to see Austin deployed to Gaza.
If settle for a public PT test.
The Kill The Jews crowd and the Pro Israel crowd didn’t join in together to chant FJB for nothing.
Ya know, that was a true Guinness Book Moment. I’m happy to have lived to see it.
You know…if they continue to deny Israel ammunition…and Israel runs out and gets desperate… eventually Israel is going to remember it has nuclear weapons.
Incredibly doubtful.
If anything, withholding precision weapons just means the Jews will have to use unguided munitions with the end result being more dead combatants and the civilians they are deliberately using as human shields.
We most certainly are not dealing with the brightest here.
A majority of those civilians support Hamas, they do so knowing that Hamas is willing to sacrifice them.
“…with the end result being more dead … civilians…”
So, propaganda win.
Mortimer Snerd is only as smart as the guy on whose lap he is planted.
“We most certainly are not dealing with the brightest here.”
Do you mean Hamas or the Biden administration? Ok, both …
Funny how the cowards at the White House couldn’t make themselves actually say this out loud
I’ve said since the beginning, if there anything higher than a brick left standing in Gaza, Israel has failed.
The time for that was on October 8. The moment Israel lifted its siege and started allowing electricity, water, food, medicines, etc to resume entering the strip, the opportunity for that was lost. Hamas has successfully normalized what it did and moved the Overton window.
The same…but worse because Ukraine wasn’t a reliable ally and was notoriously one of the most corrupt places on the planet. Joe Biden is withholding aid – authorized by Congressional action – to a key ally at a critical moment in its existence because it’s politically expedient for him to do it.
The corruption is a legacy from the Soviet-era. At least Ukraine actively fights corruption these days, unlike Russia.
I wouldn’t be so certain about that, places that are fighting corruption don’t cancel elections and Outlaw opposing political parties
Biden had his own analogous interaction with Ukraine, when he threatened to withhold aid unless a certain prosecutor was fired. Although both Biden and Trump threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine for arguably political purposes, there couldn’t have been a more clear divergence in the morality of their threats – Trump wanted Ukraine to expose corruption, Biden wanted to prevent Ukraine from exposing corruption. In this regard, their efforts were entirely dissimilar.
“Joe Biden is withholding aid – authorized by Congressional action – to a key ally at a critical moment…”
That seems like a competing powers issue there. Potential for a fascinating suit, perhaps.
I don’t remember what Trump action is being referred to here. All I can think of is Biden doing the EXACT same thing to Ukraine — threatening to withhold aid unless they eliminated a prosecutor who was likely to expose Hunter’s corrupt activities.
JoeBama gives billions n billions to Iran, then arms the enemies of Israel.
JoeBama gives billions in aid to hamas, so they keep fighting Israel.
JoeBama gives billions n billions n billions to Ukraine to keep fighting Russia – which has nothing to do with Israel, but JoeBama buys Russian oil, so Russia keeps warring against Ukraine.
See a pattern here? War is good for business. 10% for the big guy! How about that stock market?
It seems just as logical as when we are attacked by 20-something Saudi-sponsored terrorists directed by a man residing in Afghanistan so of course we attack Iraq, and kill Libya’s leader for good measure.
It did give HRC the open street cred of killing “tyrants”. That is different from her past actions which …well… are partially spelled with Arkans…….
They were not Saudi-sponsored in any way. Had they set foot in Saudi they would have been arrested. And we didn’t attack Iraq then, or over that; we demanded that Afghanistan hand the perpetrators over, and when it refused we attacked it.
The Iraq invasion was two years later, and not directly connected to the attack on us.
JoeBama buys Russian oil?! What is that about?
Also, he’s never given Hamas any aid. What he has done is negligently given aid to innocent third parties, in the full knowledge that Hamas would steal much of it from them. He would say that wasn’t the intent, it was just an unfortunate but inevitable consequence, and that this is acceptable just as collateral damage to civilians from a legitimate military strike is acceptable because it was not the intent.
What does it mean when Biden says, “Our support of Israel is IRONCLAD”?
Not a damn thing!
It means Democrat support became obsolete in the 19th century. 😀
It was just a gaffe. He meant to say, “Iran”.
Withholding precision weapons will lead to more collateral death. Somebody tell the squad.
An excellent point. But the biden administration and the squad would be happy to see more gaza proles killed by IDF bombs. So for them, the decision is a win-win.
Stumbling mumbling biden, international symbol of weakness.
Taliban, Iran, and Hamas are smiling.
smh
Wait until they start shipping arms to Hamas
“Didn’t…didn’t the Democrats go scorched earth on President Donald Trump for something similar?”
This is actually much worse. Israel is an actual ally, and it is fighting a war against terrorists who have killed Americans as well as its own people.
The enemy has taken control of our government, and it never fired a shot.
Taiwan must be shuddering
Taiwan should have a doomsday weapon..
Israelis have a long memory. The members of the Georgetown cocktail party circuit should keep this in mind.
The old Pogo saying “we have met the enemy and he is U.S.” is evergreen.
Very well played!
The policy goal of the current US government is to make sure that Hamas and other terrorist groups are NOT defeated so that they are a permanent threat to the existence of the Israeli people and to Jews everywhere, including US citizens.
Subotai Bahadur
Government never wants to actually solve a problem
By their fruits you shall know them.
No. Trump was asking Ukraine for information that was integral to American interests – namely the criminal behavior of the former Vice-President abusing his power over foreign policy to aid and abet his bagman son’s criminal bribery operation.
There are no American interests in the Gaza strip. NONE. There is only one real American ally in the region, Israel.
Trump was railroaded on a bogus charge. Traitor Joe is illegally refusing to carry out Congressional appropriations for the benefit of Democrats – so they can retain power and actually finish off what little will be left of America.
“Didn’t…didn’t the Democrats go scorched earth on President Donald Trump for something similar?”
Why yes…. yes, they did.
pretty sure it was one of their (many) impeachment moves
Austin continued:
look,,, we have been withholding the truth from you too
and that hasnt been a problem so
why now why this?
Austin let it slip that ILlness Omar has been promoted to brig general and is in charge of that region
I think its time to let bernie sanders be the dnc choice to run in 2024
and the little commie doesnt even have to give back any of his beach houese
as the late Neil Peart wrote in the song Freewill
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice