Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Israel At War Wed May 8 News Updates

 Israel at war day 215

 - President Biden tells CNN that the US will stop providing Israel with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons if it invades Rafah.

- US ambassador to Israel Jack Lew met with Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch in Bnei Brak and told him  that the war in Gaza is ‘very unpopular’ in the US.  He said Biden is trying to make his positions clear while being able to continue to help Israel accomplish what it needs to accomplish  and when he needs to, saying when he thinks Israel needs to do some things differently  as friends must.”

- The senior Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham torched the US Defense Secretary a short time ago, for the decision to examine some of the military aid to Israel.
- "Do you think that Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah want to destroy the Jews?"
- "Yes".  "So how do you impose restrictions on Israel's ability to defend itself? What an absurdity. Give Israel what it needs to conduct the war, which it cannot afford to lose."

- 44% of Americans oppose ceasefire deal that doesn’t include the release of the remaining hostages, 28% support. 50% oppose the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, only 26% support. Majority support taking action, including 33% who want arrests.

- IDF says around 30 terrorists killed in ongoing Rafah operation so far

- US confirms holding up sale of heavy bombs it feared Israel would use in Rafah. Feeling its concerns over looming major offensive weren’t getting through to Israel, Washington took unprecedented step to ensure its heavy explosives weren’t used in south Gaza city

Def secretary Austin stressed that no final decision had been made regarding that shipment or other arms transfers to Israel. 
He said the pause in arms did not impact the $26 billion in supplemental aid that Congress approved last month.

- Aid for Gaza is being loaded onto a ship in Cyprus in what is expected to be the first cargo to be delivered using a US pier built to expedite supplies to the besieged enclave.

-Border Police Ch.-Insp. Yatev Lev Halevi succumbed to his wounds on Wednesday after being severely injured on Saturday while operating in Deir al-Ghusun, which is near Tulkarm in the West Bank.

- Anti-Israel ads are continuing to pop up on city subway trains, leaving red-faced MTA officials fuming, The Post has learned.
“Free Palestine. The US spends your tax money on a genocide in Gaza,” one professional-looking poster spotted on an F train this week reads. “Read up. Get Organized. Fight back.”

4 comments:

  1. If this is true about Jack Lew, he should be thrown out of Israel. We don't need another Kapo who will lie for his anti-semitic masters. If he has anything to say, it should be to Biden and remind him that long after he's done with his diapers he'll be remembered for how he stabbed his most loyal allies. He'll go down in history as an even worse president than Jimmy Carter and that's an incredibly low bar. It's bad enough that Blinken has shown himself to be a self-loathing kapo, we don't need Lew to follow in his path.

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    1. Lew is no Henry Morgenthau, currently. Let's see if he'll be inspired.

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    2. Morgenthau like most of "our crowd" was indifferent until he was impressed & influenced.
      Have we any in our much more influential chest thumping community than then, unable to accomplish that?

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