• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Fun fact, there’s a 2008 law that specifically forces the president to give Israel all the best military hardware.

    It was passed by W on his way out the door, and due to the Democratic party being compromised as hell, there’s never been enough votes to get rid of it, and any time the president might want to hold things back, they get sued under that law.

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      4 hours ago

      Fun fact, there’s a 2008

      What law is that? I keep hearing about it but I can’t find that law.

      I did find several that prohibit the US from providing aid to countries that commit human rights violations but nothing that requires the US to give anyone any military hardware.

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      17 hours ago

      Biden and Obama both could have used the leahy law on day one. We have evidence going that far back that Israel systematically commits war crimes, including occupying Palestine in an illegal manner. To be clear there is a way they could have done it legally. But things including extending their own, civilian, legal system into the occupied areas preclude it being legal.