As the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault on Gaza nears 35,000, the House of Representatives voted to send an additional $17 billion in unconditional military aid to Israel by a vote of 366-58.
The “special relationship” has been on full display following Iran’s attack on Israel. Biden’s instruction to Israel to avoid escalation shows the U.S. could apply pressure to end the Gaza slaughter at any time. They just choose not to.
Columbia University’s president told a GOP-led congressional committee that the school had disciplined multiple professors over their views on Gaza. The hearing came as campuses across the country has been escalating attacks on Palestine activism.
Over a dozen Yale Students have launched a hunger strike over the school’s complicity in the Gaza genocide.
For months the Biden administration has insisted there’s little it can do to impact Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. The events of the last 24 hours have shown that this is a lie.
Biden called for an immediate ceasefire during a “tense” call with Netanyahu, but it’s highly doubtful that U.S. policy in Gaza will change.
Since October, the Biden administration has attempted to con the American public with a cynical shell game, insisting that it’s pushing Israel to obey the rule of law while providing the country with an unceasing supply of weaponry.
“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” Rep. Tim Walberg told a town hall audience in Michigan. “Get it over quick.”