Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The United States had approved the sale of fighter jets and other arms to Israel in deals worth over $20 billion, the Pentagon announced on August 13.
In a statement, the Pentagon said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the possible sale of 50 F-15 jets and equipment worth nearly $19 billion. Blinken also approved the possible sale of 33,000 tank shells and 50,000 mortar shells worth around $774 million and army vehicles worth $583 million, it added.
The tank rounds would be almost immediately available for delivery. The F-15 fighter jets, including 50 F-15IA fighter jets -the Israeli Air Force variant of the advanced F-15EX- and kits for Israel’s existing F-15, are only expected to arrive starting in 2029.
The State Department notified Congress of the approval, claiming in a statement that the arms sale is vital to U.S. national interests.
“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to U.S. national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability,” the State Department said in the statement, noting the importance of the F-15 deal.
The sale of the tank ammunition “will improve Israel’s capability to meet current and future enemy threats, strengthen its homeland defense and serve as a deterrent to regional threats,” it added.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant thanked Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for approving the arms seal.
The sale will advance “critical force buildup initiatives that assist Israel in developing and maintaining its qualitative military edge in the region,” Gallant wrote on X.
“This includes incorporating F-15IAs into the IAF fleet of fighter aircraft, and providing critical munition to ensure Israel’s capabilities and security,” he added. “As we fight to defend Israel on 7 different fronts, your message of support and commitment to Israel’s security are clear.”
The arms sale came more than ten months into Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
It also came as as Israel is preparing for a possible response to its recent strikes on the Houthi-held Yemeni Red Sea port of al-Hodeida as well as for the assassinations of Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Israel continues to receive support from the U.S. despite its unwillingness to engage in meaningful talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and its continuous escalation against Iran and its allies in the Middle East. This unconditional support could eventually push the region into an all-out war, which Washington will have to fight on behalf of Israel.
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who truly is american? you have all sorts of people waving the stars and stripes from your ordinary citizen, to criminals, hollywood and adult entertainment actors, athletes and musical artists and let’s not forget the colorful people of lgbt weirdos. if that’s the case then i’m not american.
and mercenaries fighting with ukranazis.
🤔🤔🤔
the star of futt buckers on that plane?
obviously, congress is shameless and it isn’t that they are blackmailed, but that they want an ongoing supply of children to rape.
…and the bad thing is, it doesn’t cost the us a single dollar! they are putting more and more virtual money into circulation and in the end the whole world is paying for this mischief!
it is the perverse system of the dollar as the world reserve currency, if this is not finally broken, the development of the past hundred years will continue forever. whoever obeys will be rewarded, whoever disobeys will be sanctioned!
40,000 dead is called “defending oursleves”. jews and zionists are beastly people
and the rest of the world worships those beastly people which is worse.
they all look the part somehow too. the jew representative to the un looks like a mafia thug in a suit.
they don’t sell weapons. they give it to them for free.
they are sold by the freemason contractors. the freemason and jew owners of the company get money, but the goy taxpayer is that one that pays. israel gets our money for the privilege of us supplying them with children (‘models and actresses’) to rape, in order to buy the weapons made by the freemasons and jews. these people then pay zero money to the government, but instead ‘donate to charities’ that just peddle their interests or function as money laundering operations.
we should give scumbag p0s satanic putrid slimy parasite israel free atomic energy over their empty heads
and not too far away the un is doing anything but condemn this isreali apartheid regime. the us need isreal for it’s 14th crusade. this area of palestine has always been a gateway for western zealots and brainwashed fools. the usadmin has unfinished business which will affect lebanon, syria turkiye, iraq, and jordan. the stolen lands known as isreal is merely a sewage pipe by which the excrement can flow into the me.
amerikans gift weapons–since they are inferior to russian
”blinken also approved the possible sale of 33,000 tank shells and 50,000 mortar shells worth around $774 million and army vehicles worth $583 million, it added.”
just like the last 10 months did not exist, evidently zionists need more ammo to kill civilians, even if they made their own (but from usa they are cheaper, isn’t?)
oh, blinken is a zionist as well. what a strange combination, isn’t?