• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      strongly worded

      WOAH there, cowboy. We don’t want to go wording our PR too strongly, or Israel might think we’re semi-serious!

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    “Biden, wearing a hotdog costume, told reporters, ‘We are all just trying to figure out who keeps arming Israel.’”

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    US government: “Stop that right now, you hooligans!”

    Also the US government: “Here’s some more weapons to genocide everybody.”

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      Just make sure we slap a “No Genocide” label on the crate and we should be fine.

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    Included in the letter was a coupon valid for 18 billion dollars in military aid and one get out of the Hague free card.

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    Modern politics is saying something is wrong and then never doing anything about it, for ever and ever.

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        One type of bomb, which was later given, while never stopping many other bombs. Those bombs previously on hold are used already by now in Gaza and Lebanon . ( edit county name because I flunked geography)

        That was a token smoke screen, in June, to make a point in the USA , for one week of campaigning. thousands of different types of weapons and military gear were sent during this “hold”

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        Article from June. Only mentions 'a shipment ', I have not heard we stopped supplying them long term. Need to research further

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    Ooooh or what you’ll stop the weapons

    • for the record I’m just showing how impotent US foreign policy is with Israel
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    Damn Biden is playing hard ball. A Letter!!! I bet Bibi shit his pants.

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    Because the guy financing their war can’t count on the other guy to answer his calls. Fucking lunatics.