By Walt Zlotow
President Biden joined Israel’s campaign against Gaza the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
Nearly three years later, as of October 8, Gaza’s 141 square miles have been reduced to rubble. Tens of thousands of Palestinians lie dead beneath the destruction, with the total death toll exceeding 100,000. The remaining 2.2 million people endure severe hardship in an ever-shrinking area, as Israeli forces occupy more than half of Gaza and open fire on any Palestinian who approaches the Israeli-controlled zones.
None of this would have been possible without the more than $20 billion in weapons President Biden provided to Israel.
Even after the January 2025 ceasefire that secured the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, Israel continues to bomb and kill Palestinians on a daily basis.
Now President Trump, despite depleting U.S. weapons stockpiles in his failed war against Iran, intends to supply Israel with another $2.8 billion worth of 2,000-pound bombs to continue military operations against Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanese civilians in Lebanon.
One congressman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, is attempting to block the transfer. He stated that:
“The Trump administration’s proposed sale of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs, some of the most destructive munitions in our arsenal, raises grave, unresolved concerns about how these munitions could be used in densely populated areas of Gaza and Lebanon… The Trump administration has not provided sufficient assurances that these weapons will be used by the Netanyahu government in accordance with US law and with appropriate protections for civilians. I therefore will not clear this sale at this time.”
Rep. Meeks recognizes that this $2.8 billion package, like the more than $20 billion provided under Biden, will be used to further devastate Gaza and southern Lebanon in service of expanding Greater Israel.
Why Trump continues to arm Netanyahu – after being drawn into a disastrous attack on Iran – remains unexplained.
The U.S. economy faces severe strain, possibly collapse, from the costs of the war against Iran. American forces have largely stopped bombing Iran because weapons stocks are critically low. National debt has surpassed $40 trillion, and inflation remains high. Yet Trump is still prepared to provide $2.8 billion in munitions so Israel can finish the campaign his predecessor enabled three years ago.
That is not “America First.” It is “Genocide First… America Last.”
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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Biden didn’t hide his allegiance to Israel. He proclaimed he was a “proud Zionist.” Just as happy to murder a population as Trump. Their two party system screws Americans, just as ours does us. I live for the day these criminals (including our own in Australia) are brought to account.
The reason that successive American administrations back and fund Isrevil ambitions for Greater Isrevil between the Red Sea and the Euphrates River, is that both the US State & Defence Departments have recruited st5aff with ZION@ZI sympathiser, if not ZION@ZI practitioners. This has occurred for at least 25 years, but likely since the 1948 Nakba evicted Indigenous Palestinian landowners from their properties.
Then there is the access to and control of both onshore and off-shore fossil fuel deposits. POTUS Butcher Bibi has happily set Isrevil on the path to dictatorship with the compliance and complicity of PPOTUS (Pederast Protector of the Undemocratic Sewer) TACO Trumpery.
Most reasonable persons would consider American remorse for funding the German economy 1933-1945 that created the Holocaust as a matter of government policy, would be sufficient remorse without endorsing the GAZA GENOCIDE by the amoral IDF directed by the imperialistic Knesset for the benefit of the ”exceptionalist” ZION@ZI refugees from their birth countries.
The USA and Israevil the worlds worst terrorists.
Trump may be explained with one word: insanity.
Political criminality is the frame and flesh of history, with executive murderers and thieves everywhere, even if “they didn’t do it directly.” The lesser (most of us) have always suffered.., death, slavery, occupation, humiliation, bondage, dispossession. Israel is a product of brainless supremacist, thieving murdering superstition and will not be controlled, shamed, denied, such is a chosen elite status. A POX.
The shadows of US toxic policy go back to 1945, and it’s here that you learn of the dualism of Military Industrial Complex, Government and the underhandedness of human nature.
It’s way past time that we should have learned, along with all those changing policy decisions that have been made both deliberately and over longer periods of time….e.g. LBJ, Nixon, Regan, Bush 1 & 2.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/24/three-events-that-changed-the-world-in-early-august-1945/