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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-10-24/ty-article/u-s-deploys-more-arms-and-troops-to-israel-cyprus-and-jordan/0000018b-5cbf-d307-adbb-7dbf1aa80000
See also the fake aid bullshit that serves no one but Israeli interests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_floating_pier
And also:
https://www.declassifieduk.org/u-s-military-is-secretly-supplying-weapons-to-israel-using-uk-base-on-cyprus
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240626-turkiye-reveals-intelligence-that-cyprus-serves-as-military-base-for-israel/
Or you know, even before Oct 7th, when Israel was already and still an apartheid ethno state practicing ethnic cleansin: https://www.army.mil/article/267671/u_s_army_convoy_operation_to_israel
Sure the US troops aren't firing the bullets. But they are supplying them, supplying targeting intelligence, etc etc. That's pretty much just as bad.
Fuck this thing veneer of respectability.
Those troops were sent to Jordan, not Israel.
And because you editted: Intel is not 'just as bad' as actually shooting bullets. It probably even helps as actual intel of terrorist movements might prevent innocent deaths