US Approves $20BN In Weapons Sales To Israel As Wider War Looms

• US Approves $20BN In Weapons Sales To Israel As Wider War Looms
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  After already having given over $3 billion in annual foreign aid to America’s number one ally in the Middle East stretching back years, the State Department has approved a series of potential weapons sales to Israel worth over $20 billion. This is the military-industrial complex’s bread and butter: give allies huge amounts of foreign aid, and those dollars eventually return to line the pockets of the big US defense firms.
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  The sales are expected to include some 50 F-15 fighter jets and tank munitions, advanced air-to-air missiles, tactical vehicles, and on top of all this 50,000 high-explosive 120mm mortar rounds.
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  Some of this might be purchased with the $3.5 billion in military assistance recently released to Israel in the form of Foreign Military Financing.
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  While it will take years before 50 F-15s and many of the heavier, more sophisticated weapons would be delivered to Israel, it comes at a moment of deep global divide related to Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza.
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  Hamas sources have said that nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began last October, or about 2% of the total population. Much of this killing is being done by US-supplied weaponry courtesy of the US taxpayer.
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