Outcry
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This routine transaction has been criticized within the Democratic Party but also in American public opinion, which brings the fate of Palestinians, in the grip of intensifying violence, closer to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Routine… On May 5, Joe Biden’s government notified Congress that it was selling $ 735 million worth of arms to Israel. This formal authorization procedure, carried out within a short legal period of two weeks, would not have aroused the slightest controversy in Washington, the Hebrew state’s best ally, if it had not by chance been initiated a few days before the start of the new conflict between the IDF and Hamas. Assured of approval, which will be effective Thursday despite more than 200 dead in Gaza including 61 children, the sale is part of a $ 38 billion military aid agreement from 2019 to 2028 and includes precision munitions used at this very moment by the Israeli air force. It provoked an outcry from elected officials from the former…
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