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US approves $7.4bn sale of more weapons to Israel used to ravage Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

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The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.

The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

You can visually see the old guard dying in real time.

Before the 1950s the DNC was the party for racism, after LBJ signed the civil rights act they slowly became the party of civil rights and equity.

You can literally see the evolution of political parties even when looking at individuals: In the 1970s Biden fought forced desegregation of schools, in 1995 Biden helped write laws that gave a huge sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine (which had some racist enforcement repercussions), in 2009 he became the Vice President for the first Black POTUS, in 2011 he went in front of Congress and begged them not to renew that 95 crime bill because of the disparity, and now in 2025 he's being treated as the icon for federal DEI hiring practices.