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Friday, July 12, 2024
US won’t provide Israel with 2,000-lb bombs for fear of ‘great human tragedy,’ Biden says
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US President Joe Biden indicates that he has no plans to remove the hold he placed on a shipment of 2,000-lb bombs for Israel.
“I know all this criticism about how I wouldn’t provide the weapons they needed. I’m not providing the 2000-lb bombs. They cannot be used in Gaza or any populated area without causing great human tragedy and damage,” he says during a press conference.
But he then asserts that he is still helping to secure Israel in other ways, pointing to the Iranian missile and drone attack that he helped thwart with European and Arab allies.
“I was able to unite the Arab nations as well as Europe and nothing happened. It sent an incredible lesson to what was going on for the Middle East,” he says.
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