Trump Administration Plans $2.8 Billion Munitions Sale to Israel
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The Facts
- The Trump administration is planning a $2.8 billion munitions sale to Israel.
- The package includes 40,000 2,000-pound bombs.
- The bomb package includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117 bombs.
- The proposed package also includes 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads.
- Congress has received informal notification of the pending arms sale.
- Officials said the proposed arms package is not yet final.
- Most of the package would be financed through U.S. foreign military financing.
- The Biden administration paused deliveries of 2,000-pound bombs over Gaza civilian-casualty concerns.
Context
What weapons are included in the proposed sale?
The package includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs, 20,000 BLU-117 bombs and 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads. NYT News18
Has the sale been finalized?
No. U.S. officials said Congress has been informally notified, but the proposed package is not yet final. Guardian India Today
Where Left and Right agree
Left and right largely agree on this one.
- What both sides accept
- Congress should reject or block the $2.8 billion arms package before it's finalized, refusing to let U.S. foreign military financing fund it.
- Where Left and Right differ in emphasis
- Both oppose the financing arrangement; one because these bombs kill civilians in Gaza, the other because the U.S. can't control or answer for how they're used.
How left and right read it
Left says
Public money should not buy munitions whose last deliveries were held back precisely because of what they do to civilians. Yet most of this $2.8 billion package would run through U.S. foreign military financing, meaning taxpayers underwrite 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs in a territory already flattened and grieving tens of thousands of dead. Congress has informal notice and the deal isn't final. That is the moment to refuse it.
“The war on Gaza has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and has decimated the territory.” — The Guardian
Is this how the left would actually put it?
Right says
American taxpayers should not be the default financier of another government's munitions stockpile, however capable and friendly that government is. Yet most of this $2.8 billion buy — 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs — would run through U.S. foreign military financing, so we subsidize ordnance whose employment in densely populated areas we neither command nor can answer for. Congress has only informal notice, and nothing is final. Cancel it.
“Israel has used 2,000-pound bombs during military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, drawing criticism over their use in densely populated areas.” — NewsMax
Is this how the right would actually put it?
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