US continues to double down on its support for Israel

The United States has doubled down on its support for Israel. In a visit to Tel Aviv, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin promised more munitions, tactical vehicles, and air defense systems to Israel and said he wasn't there to "dictate timelines for peace".

The United States will remain Israel's closest friend in the world. As I've said repeatedly, our support for Israel security remains unshakable. And it always will.

Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of State

• US vows to keep arming Israel despite outcries amid atrocities
  

  US vows to keep arming Israel despite atrocities, outcry

  Washington continues to ignore worldwide demands for peace in Palestine.

For over two months, Israel has blocked deliveries of water, fuel, food, and medicine, leading top NGO Human Rights Watch to say that Israel "is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare".

Indiscriminate airstrikes have destroyed 20 percent of the buildings in Gaza.

Israel's war crimes have caused their support to plummet in a country traditionally dominated by pro-Zionist sentiment.

• 71% of Gazans suffer extreme hunger, Israel wields ‘weapon of starvation’
  

  71% of Gazans suffer from extreme hunger as Israel wields ‘weapon of starvation’: Rights group

  A rights group finds that 71 percent of Gaza residents suffer from extreme hunger due to Israel’s devastating war on the Palestinian territory.

Polls show that just 30% of the United States wants to send Israel more weapons and that the majority of Americans aged 18 to 24 have effectively become anti-Zionists, with 51% agreeing that the long-term answer is for "Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians".

Victory has never seemed so close because this idea of the invincible Israel was shattered on October 7.

And now the so called Axis of Resistance is now including people of the world, right? It's no longer just the Axis of Resistance to the Middle East.

This the people in the diasporas, it's people who have a conscience in Brazil, in India, where trade unions are also demanding to divest and to boycott Israel.

The Axis of Resistance is expanded to almost the entire world.

Nino Brown, Party for Socialism and Liberation

• Bent on genocide: Netanyahu rules out ceasefire in Gaza
  

  Bent on genocide: Netanyahu rules out ceasefire in Gaza

  Israeli prime minister rules out the prospect of any ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has been the subject of a genocidal Israeli war for the past 75 days.

Despite recent talk in the United States mainstream media that Israeli atrocities are causing a rift between Washington and Tel Aviv, many believe history's actions speak louder than words.

And I think this is where we have to have a class analysis. It's absolutely in the interest of the 1%.

In fact, they are desperate because they have relied on Israel for 75 years as a forward military force, first for the UK and then for the last 60 years for the US, Israel has been their unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Joe Iosbaker, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR)

The US Secretary of Defense and Tel Aviv also discussed a transition to a so-called next phase of the war against the long-brutalized Palestinians.

• US faces isolation for aiding and abetting Gaza genocide
  

  US faces isolation for aiding and abetting Gaza genocide, defying world opinion

  While the majority world opinion is in support of the Palestinian people and the ceasefire in Gaza, the United States has been repeatedly blocking the UN resolutions calling for a halt in Israeli aggression.

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