PREAMBLE
The largest Israel-Palestine outbreak - and, this conflict is continuing and the MENA regional conflagation still widening - possibly spreading to Iran, (globalresearch, 3/02/2024) - already sustaining massive Gaza destruction, since US military machine is the lynchpin of imperial violence, we shall identify the hubris of a hegemon and the triad of imperialism, Zionism and reactionism in support to a malfeasance state indulging in Genocide on a global scale, including the silent ‘genocide’ where Israel is maintaining a war on Palestinian Bedouin communities in West Bank (Palestine Chronicle). Meanwhile, Israel's war debt is enriching the merchants of death.
In fact, The Merchants of Death war crimes tribunal, headed by former Lancaster prosecutor Brad Wolf, has sought to hold leading weapons contractors accountable for their war profiteering.
David's Sling, also formerly known as Magic Wand, is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor Raytheon.
The Arrow 3 or Hetz 3 (Hebrew: חֵץ 3) is an exo-atmospheric hypersonic anti-ballistic missile, jointly funded, developed and produced by Israel and the United States.
The Iron Dome is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries.
Times of Israel report on January 25 noted that more than 250 U.S. cargo planes and 20 ships have delivered more than 10,000 tons of munitions and military equipment to Israel since its onslaught on Gaza began in October.
In late December, The Times of Israel also reported that the Israeli Defense Ministry had made almost $2.8 billion in additional purchases from the U.S. since the war started—in addition to the $3.8 billion in military aid that the U.S. provides to Israel annually, (covertaction, 5/02/24).
According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the Gaza Strip since October 7, equivalent to two nuclear bombs.
The bombs include MK-80 bombs made by General Dynamics in Garland, Texas, and retrofitted in McAlester, Oklahoma, at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, which produces a wide variety of bombs, including the infamous Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bombs dropped on Afghanistan, whose yield is comparable to a tactical nuclear weapon.
High-explosive aerial armoury as provided by US:
Used widely by Israel are the BLU-109 2,000 pound bunker buster bombs made in the U.S., which according to AP News have killed thousands of people after being dropped in densely populated neighborhoods on the Gaza strip.
According to a report on the World Socialist Website (WSWS), Israeli air strikes in Gaza have been carried out from a fleet of American made warplanes consisting of:
40 F-35 advanced Lockheed Martin stealth warplanes
196 F-16 multi-purpose planes made by General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin
83 F-15 fighters designed and produced by McDonnell Douglas (which is now part of Boeing).
Israeli Defense Ministry Director General Eyal Zamir visited Washington in late January to finalize the purchase of 25 F-35 stealth fighter jets, 25 F-15 fighter jets and 12 Apache helicopters from the U.S.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near IEast (UNRWA) is targeted by Israel with the support of US and certain EU members so it can fulfill its program of starving the people of Gaza and driving them out of the territory (Al Nakba).
The expansion of Israeli territory is the real agenda; and the US is completely in complicity with the Gaza genocide,
(Center for Constitutional Rights, Emergency Legal Briefing Paper, October 18, 2023).
Articles and essays posted during the week :
1] Uprising
3] On China's BRI Geostrategic Significance
4] America Cognitive Warfare against China
5] MOMENTUM #185 and FRIDAY FILES 09/02/24
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best of weekends' readings,