Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel | CNN Politics
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The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Why? Just why?

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    I mean… this is horrifically shitty timing but doesn’t really impact the genocide in Gaza at all.

    Even if these were being delivered “whole” (which they aren’t), the utility of air superiority fighters to continue to level a 139 square mile open air prison is almost zero.

    This is all about neighboring countries that might attack. We already have had a decent number of allegedly Iranian puppeted terror groups launch rockets against Israel (and the US…) as part of this conflict. And whether we jerk netanyahu off while he commits geneocide or not, a war involving nuclear powers that further destabilizes The Middle East is in nobody’s interests.

    So this is really just normal US gun running.

    • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      How does supporting a state actively engaging in genocide not enable them continue? The mental gymnastics around this are astounding

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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      8 months ago

      We cant even send F-16s to Ukraine, and we’re sending the best of the best to Israel. F35s can be used for bombing very easily.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        F-15, not F-35.

        But even if we were sending F-35s: Gaza is 139 square miles. Even General T-Swizzle Herself would question the need to use jets to attack that when modern artillery is accurate enough to cause pinpoint collateral damage within a hundred mile radius.

        So the F-15 has no meaningful impact on the current genocide.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Not good, Bob. Not good. However,

    the new F-15s would need to be built from scratch and would likely not be delivered to Israel for 4-5 years.

    The Biden administration also quietly authorized a sale of F-35 fighter jets to Israel last week, the sources said. That sale did not require congressional notification because the intended sale was already notified to Congress in 2008.