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“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Howard Zinn
Under two U.S. presidents, one a Democrat and one a Republican, the U.S. government has partnered with the apartheid State of Israel in committing genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon. A realistic estimate of the number of innocents made casualties by these two presidents—and a supine U.S. Congress (again consisting of both Democrats and Republicans) is over 250,000 elderly men, women, children and babies, born and unborn.
And after almost three years of uninterrupted mass slaughter and the vast majority of the American people and people around the world thoroughly aghast and disgusted at this 21st-century holocaust, Donald Trump is sending the genocidal Zionist state 40,000 2,000-pound bombs.
These are not sophisticated, guided missiles designed to accurately hit specific military targets; these are massive “dumb” bombs containing a ton of explosives designed for only one purpose: to kill hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians who live in densely populated urban areas.
It is now obvious to everyone that Donald Trump has no intention of halting the wars in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; instead, he has every intention of escalating the wars and murdering tens of thousands of innocents in the process.
Zero Hedge quotes Tucker Carlson’s commentary on this planned gift (yes, we are giving the bombs to Israel by giving Israel the money in which to “pay” for the bombs, thus calling it a “transfer”) of these weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to Israel:
"According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 MK-84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history."
The former Fox host further warned this portends Israel could soon go even more 'gloves off' and unleash further hell on Gaza and Lebanon, or possibly even Iran.
More from Carlson:
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it. At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform. It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
Poll after recent poll has shown that by and large the American public is finally questioning Washington’s blank check approach to Israel.
In an interview with former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, podcaster Mario Nawfal gave the following statistics relative to this enormous transfer of WMD to Israel:
Mario Nawfal: According to an informed federal official, in the coming months, the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 MK-84 and BLU-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the U.S. in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War II was the 8th Air Force's attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved, all of them together, dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That's 7.5% of what Trump is sending to Israel.
That same month, March of 1945, the U.S. Army Air Force had begun the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meeting House, over Tokyo.
More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed.
Then the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing, nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War II or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with the guerrilla force in Lebanon and is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made MK-84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave of temperature off the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts, and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters 35-feet deep. Until [Trump’s] war with Iran, the U.S. military generally avoided the MK-84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
It's hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter of a million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants, women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings.
So far, the Israelis have destroyed 92% of all homes in Gaza and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city's inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you do.
So far, none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an arms sale. It is not an arms sale. It is a gift funded by American taxpayers through the foreign military financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism. Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to buy American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion U.S. Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
See also this LewRockwell.com report.
Donald Trump is a nightmare! He is George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World all wrapped up in one man.
See him as he attempts to turn our nation’s capital into one giant golden monument to himself; see him as he attempts to destroy the freedom of speech in America’s colleges and universities; see him as he attempts to destroy the freedom of the press; see him as he attempts to create a Naziesque Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, led by Joseph Goebbels, whereby private news is suppressed and only government-approved and government-sponsored news can be disseminated; see him as he tells his zombie supporters to take a personal pledge to “the greatest president in American history” and promise to go to the polls in November and cheat like hell; see him as he tries to take over the entire elections process to make sure Republicans win the midterm elections by fraud; see him as he crashes the entire global economy with his insane and illegal war of aggression against Iran; see him as he cajoled Saudi Arabia to attack the Houthis, which resulted in the Houthis destroying the Saudi East-West Crude Oil Pipeline and seizing control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the entrance of the Red Sea, which means that now there is virtually no oil coming out of Saudi Arabia, thus worsening the global shortage of petroleum products; see him as he creates an economic crisis deep in America via his moronic punitive tariffs against our country’s closest ally and friend, Canada; see him as he threatens again and again to completely obliterate Iran (which by itself is a war crime); see him as he threatens China; see him as he threatens Cuba; see him as he threatens Greenland and Denmark; see him as he threatens Spain; see him as he threatens almost everybody; see him as he finances a proxy war against Russia.
There is literally no end to this man’s madness. Every day, every minute, every second that Donald Trump occupies the Oval Office threatens the peace, prosperity and safety of the entire planet.
America cannot afford two more years of Trump in the White House; we cannot afford two more months of Trump in the White House. We may not even survive two more weeks of Trump in the White House.
Donald Trump is a minute-by-minute existential threat to America and the entire world.
With Trump in the White House, those 40,000 2,000-pound bombs to Israel could be but a down payment on nuclear Armageddon.
© Chuck Baldwin
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