{"id":302505,"date":"2025-01-26T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302505"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T08:38:25","slug":"trump-lifts-ban-on-transfer-of-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=302505","title":{"rendered":"Trump lifts ban on transfer of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Jan 25, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US president has lifted a ban on transfer of a single shipment of 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs to the occupied Palestinian territories, which had been frozen by his predecessor in a token criticism of the Israeli regime\u2019s ferocious bombardment of densely-populated areas in the Gaza Strip with American ammunition. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Donald Trump eliminated the prohibition that had been imposed by Joe Biden on Saturday, American news and analysis website Axios reported, citing Israeli officials.<\/p>\n

Now, the Pentagon would be shipping 1,800 of the MK-84 bombs \u201cin the coming days,\u201d the officials added.<\/p>\n

Biden had taken the decision last May, well into the Israeli regime\u2019s incessant war of genocide against Gaza and amid billions-strong ramped-up American military support for Tel Aviv during the brutal military onslaught.<\/p>\n

At the time, Washington tried to portray imposition of the ban as a means of its protesting Tel Aviv\u2019s invasion of the city of Rafah that sits along the coastal territory\u2019s border and houses the territory\u2019s lifeline Rafah Crossing.<\/p>\n

Even as early as last July, rumors were circulating around pointing to the likelihood of the US\u2019s unblocking the shipment.<\/p>\n

However, the decision triggered, what many described as, \u201cthe biggest\u201d crisis to hit the American-Israeli ties during the warfare, featuring the Democratic-leaning US-based pro-Israeli community\u2019s strongly attacking Biden\u2019s administration, and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s using the opportunity to mobilize Republicans against the president.<\/p>\n

According to Axios, \u201cNetanyahu and his loyalists…used Biden’s decision to falsely claim there was a US \u2018arms embargo\u2019\u201d on the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n

Under Biden, the US provided the regime with a whopping $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel from October 2023, which witnessed the launch of the war, to October 2024 alone. The figure is around six times the volume of Washington\u2019s routine annual military aid to the regime.<\/p>\n

The war, however, went on to last until less than a week ago, when Tel Aviv approved of a ceasefire deal with the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas amid unyielding and successful Palestinian and regional resistance operations against the regime.<\/p>\n

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From Oct 2023 the US provided Israel with $17.9 billion in military aid. That looks set to continue as the U.S. prepares to send 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs to Israel to enable its ongoing genocide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":302507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302508,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302505\/revisions\/302508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}