{"id":50798,"date":"2025-01-06T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T23:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=50798"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T23:12:18","slug":"gaza-cap-guns-versus-bazookas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/gaza-cap-guns-versus-bazookas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Cap Guns Versus Bazookas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n

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If one side is armed with cap guns and the other with bazookas, would we call that a \u201cwar\u201d between roughly equal powers?<\/p>\n

I thought of this as I turned to Antiwar.com<\/a> to see that President Biden has approved yet another massive arms shipment to Israel, to the tune of $8 billion. Here\u2019s the report:<\/p>\n

The sale includes AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, Hellfire AGM-114 missiles, 155 MM artillery rounds, small-diameter bombs, JDAM kits, and 500-pound bombs. Many of these munitions have been used by Israel during its campaign of extermination in Gaza, including in attacks on civilian targets.<\/em><\/p>\n

In June, CNN reported<\/a> that Israel used US small-diameter bombs in an attack on a school that killed 40 civilians. In October, <\/em>The Washington Post noted<\/a>, \u201cThe Biden administration has received nearly 500 reports alleging Israel used U.S.-supplied weapons for attacks that caused unnecessary harm to civilians in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Remember when human rights used to matter (just a little bit)? Remember when genocide was considered morally reprehensible \u2013 a murderous wrong? The U.S. government simply ignores human rights except when they advance a particular agenda. And genocide? It\u2019s OK when it\u2019s couched as Israel doing it in the cause of \u201cdefending\u201d its \u201cright to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

If your \u201cright to exist\u201d involves denying millions of others their right to exist, have you not bought that \u201cright\u201d with blood money?<\/p>\n

Of course, we\u2019re all told by the \u201cexperts\u201d that the situation in the Middle East is immensely complicated. Certainly, the history of the region is complex. But what\u2019s happening there today to the Palestinians isn\u2019t complex. In Israel, Zionism has run amuck as Israel grabs land, water, oil and gas rights, indeed everything it can, in the cause of creating a Greater Israel. It just doesn\u2019t matter to most Israelis, and the U.S. government as well, that two million Palestinians will be killed, wounded, or displaced. Might makes right here, accentuated by media spin and government propaganda.<\/p>\n

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