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Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)

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[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Biden said something like: "If there was no Israel, we'd have to invent it."

The US loves having a highly militarized, violent, totally amoral and 100% US-dependent proxy next to all those oil fields. The last thing the US wants is peace in the middle east. This is just divide-and-conquer 101.