NBC News reported late Sunday that lawmakers in Washington are facing mounting pressure to pass the massive supplemental package that includes $14.3 billion in aid to Israel after Iran launched its retaliatory strikes in response to Israel’s bombing of Tehran’s consulate in Syria.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared before a Senate committee last week and flatly rejected allegations that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, despite mounting evidence and international and domestic pressure.
Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, called out the hypocrisy of holding an emergency UN Security Council meeting over Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel. He said the entire spectacle was “almost embarrassing to watch.” The UN Security Council meeting was called after Iran’s attack following Israel’s decision on 1 April to bomb Tehran’s......
U.S. President Joe Biden said last week that Washington’s support for Israel is ironclad just days before Iran carried out retaliatory strikes following Tel Aviv’s decision to bomb an Iranian consulate in Damascus.
U.S. President Joe Biden made it clear, once again, that Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing in Gaza and backtracked on comments he made earlier in the week that there is a need in Gaza for a six-to-eight-week ceasefire.
American forces positioned in the Middle East helped Israel largely repel Iran’s retaliatory strikes over the weekend, according to U.S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said his country should seize complete control of Gaza.