(President) Biden witheld shipments once. There was massive blow back. These were the 2,000 pound bombs, which never should have been used in a place like a Gaza in the first place. A lot of congressional aides told one of my sources, ‘This will never happen again. We will never pause shipments again. We’ll just never risk this.’ So obviously, they are under a tremendous amount of pressure to be providing these weapons. I think what’s interesting about that we tend to take about the Israel lobby and AIPAC but some of my sources really reiterated that it’s the defense industry as well that is putting a lot of pressure the United States to keep supplying these weapons. I don’t think we know everything that happened with the Biden administration. But many people believe, that yes, if you had stopped them, they would have at least had to conserve them because they are expanding so much artillery and so many weapons at such a fast pace. They would had to conserve the weapons that they have, if they weren’t guaranteed to be getting constantly so much from the US.
Journalist and author Suzy Hansen will returns to This Is Hell! To talk about her New York Magazine article, "Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law." Suzy is the author of, "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World," which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Her new book, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan," will be published in April by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
A new installment of “This Week In Rotten History” from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.=
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