The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassed this part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

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      6 hours ago

      You never cared about palestinians. You know very well that every single goddamn president gave billions to israel , you know very well that Harris would have let israel exterminating Gaza. I don’t think you ever condemned israel war crimes either

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        6.5 billion vs 147 million. While both are bad, one is undeniably worse. 44 times worse to be precise. An analogy for the whole last presidential race

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          It is as bad with Biden and would have been as bad Harris. All three of them are war criminals that should be in jail