the White House is deciding to pause a
shipment of bombs to Israel this is over
the concerns about a potential military
offensive on the city of Rafa were over
a million Palestinians are currently
sheltered do we understand what impact
that this pause in delivery would have
on the artillery of the Israelis we
don’t know the state of Israel’s
stockpile of these weapons do they have
enough we also really don’t know how
much of this Rafa operation is to be
conducted from the air and therefore how
badly the Israelis need these bombs but
it’s not really about the numbers it’s
about the signal this is the first time
the Biden Administration has pushed back
on something like this there have been
plenty of people pressing Biden for
weeks and months now to hold back
American weapon supplies even from
within his own party the fact that he
finally went ahead and did it is a
display of displeasure I think the
administration felt like they were not
being listened to by the Israelis that
their concerns were not being addressed
and this is the administration pushing
back and saying if you don’t listen to
us there have to be at least some
consequences