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Al-Waie Magazine Issue 460-461
Thirty-ninth year
Jumada I - Jumada II 1446 AH corresponding to December - January 2025 CE

“Israel” is the Largest Recipient of American Military Aid in History

In the brutal war of aggression that “Israel” is waging on Gaza, the United States has continued to shower financial and military aid on its ally “Israel.” America does so in a way that appears as if it is waging a proxy war on its behalf in the Middle East to rearrange it, according to what American interests require. The amount of American aid to the entity have been huge. According to a recent report issued by the Costs of War Project at Brown University in the United States, the United States has spent $17.9 billion on military aid to “Israel,” in one year since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Flood. According to a report recently published by the “Times of Israel” website, “Israel” is the largest recipient of US military aid in history, having received $251.2 billion, since 1959. As usual, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University was the first to issue a report titled “US Spending on “Israeli” and Related US Military Operations in the Region: October 7, 2023 – September 30, 2024.” The Biden administration has concluded no fewer than 100 arms deals with “Israel.” The cost of US defensive and offensive operations in Yemen and the Red Sea region, in response to Houthi attacks linked to the genocidal war in Gaza, has reached $4.86 billion in addition. On August 13, 2024, the White House announced additional arms sales agreements to the Jewish entity worth $20.3 billion that will enter into force in the coming years, after obtaining the approval of the US Congress. These agreements fall under the Foreign Military Sales program. Under these agreements, “Israel” is expected to receive 50 Boeing F-15 fighter jets at a cost of $18.8 billion. The United States has been the largest supplier of arms to “Israel” for more than five decades and is committed to maintaining the Jewish entity’s qualitative military edge over the countries of the Middle East. For example, “Israel” is the only country in the region that owns and operates the latest American fighter jets such as the F-35. It does not stop there, but goes beyond that. “Israel” is the only country allowed to postpone payments related to receiving American military equipment to the coming years. “Israel” is also allowed to spend 25% of the annual routine military aid, it receives from the United States on manufacturing and developing its own weapons, and such exceptions do not apply to any other country in the world.

Al-Waie Comment:

The United States supports and protects the Zionist entity as a tool to implement its strategies in the Middle East, and deter regional powers hostile to its policies on the other hand. The best evidence of this is the statement of US President Joe Biden, “If ‘Israel’ did not exist, we would have to invent it.”

Ya'alon sticks to his accusation of "Israel" of committing war crimes

Former “Israeli” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has accused “Israel” of war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, a charge the government has strongly denounced. The hardline former general told “Israeli” media that hardliners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government seek to expel Palestinians from northern Gaza and want to re-establish Jewish settlements there. “I am obligated to warn about what is happening there and is being hidden from us,” Ya’alon told the “Israeli” public broadcaster Kan. “Ultimately, war crimes are being committed.” Ya’alon, a former IDF chief of staff who also served as defense minister in Netanyahu’s government from 2013 to 2016, has since become a critic of Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s Likud party has accused Ya’alon of spreading “slanderous lies.” After Ya'alon, who also served as the army’s chief of staff, refused to retract his harsh statements that his country was carrying out a process of ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, he added a new statement in which he said that the “Israeli” army was no longer “the most moral in the world” and that it was currently committing war crimes against humanity. At the same time, the army’s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, decided to prevent Ya’alon from attending any security meeting or giving lectures to soldiers. It is noteworthy that the “Israeli” opposition, with which Ya'alon works against Netanyahu, could not tolerate his description of the war in Gaza as “ethnic cleansing.” It was completely shocked by his statement that the army was committing war crimes there, and began to attack him harshly. From this standpoint, it seems that anger over Ya’alon’s statements is that it came as a testimony in house.

Al-Waie comment:

There is no doubt that what Netanyahu is doing in terms of massacres against the people of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and the overwhelming majority of Jews support him in this, is contrary to human nature, and from this standpoint he was prompted to declare in this manner... that “Israel” will receive its punishment from the Ummah. the Messenger of Allah (saw) said,

«لَتُقَاتِلُنَّ الْيَهُودَ فَلَتَقْتُلُنَّهُمْ«

"Jews will fight you and you will kill them." This is a true promise... and then the oppressors will know what kind of reversal they will face.

Reuters: Turkey hands over suspects in killing Rabbi Kogan to the United Arab Emirates

A Turkish security source told Reuters that three suspects accused of killing “Israeli” Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE, were arrested in Istanbul, in a secret operation carried out by Turkish intelligence and police this week. The source added that the suspects, all from Uzbekistan, were handed over to the UAE at the request of the Emirati government. The UAE Foreign Ministry, in a post on its account on the X platform, thanked the Turkish authorities “for their cooperation in arresting the perpetrators.” The UAE Ministry of Interior revealed that the three suspects in the murder of the “Israeli” rabbi of Moldovan origin, Zvi Kogan, hold Uzbek citizenship, Olimpi Toherovic, 28, Mahmoud John Abdul Rahim, 28, and Azizbek Kamilovic, 33. It added that the competent security authorities have begun conducting initial investigations with them in preparation for referring them to public prosecution to complete the investigations, without adding further details. The ministry announced that it was able to arrest the perpetrators “in record time.” Kogan was considered one of the representatives of the Jewish “Chabad” movement in the UAE, and held Moldovan citizenship in addition to “Israeli” citizenship. He also officially resided in the UAE as an assistant to the Chief Rabbi of Abu Dhabi, according to the “Israeli” newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

Al-Waie comment:

This is Erdogan, and this is his miserable “moderate Islamist” regime... This is an example of his betrayals, which if collected together would form a mountain of filth that stinks... This is an example of the rulers of tyranny and injustice, from whom there is no relief for the Ummah except by uprooting them and throwing them into the dustbin of history, whilst Hell suffices for them, and what a miserable fate that is.

Trump’s Middle East Team... “Friends of ‘Israel’” and They Don't Hide Their Bias

The policy that any elected US president will follow, can be judged early, by knowing the orientations of those he appoints as his assistants before taking office. Trump’s foreign policy appointments suggest that he will adopt a radical approach, in dealing with issues that concern ‘Israel’ and its strategic interests. His government includes hawks with strong pro-“Israeli” thinking, which is what prompted the hardline “Israeli” minister, Bezalel Smotrich, to declare that 2025 will be the “year of “Israeli” sovereignty” over “Judea and Samaria,” adding that he has instructed the “Israeli” authorities to begin preparatory work to annex the occupied Palestinian territories.

• Trump chose his country’s ambassador to “Israel,” as former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who is known for his extreme right-wing positions against the Palestinians and their occupied territories. He is part of Trump’s first round of candidates for senior positions. Huckabee’s appointment came just three days after the US election results were announced. According to the “Israeli” newspaper Haaretz, Huckabee was active in the Jewish Defense League, which was founded by the far-right Rabbi Meir Kahane and is based in the United States. The appointment was welcomed with joy by two far-right ministers in Netanyahu’s government, extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Huckabee supported the Abraham Accords, which crowned Trump’s efforts to normalize relations between “Israel” and a number of Arab countries. He is a Baptist pastor who has made dozens of trips to “Israel,” including a cornerstone-laying ceremony for one of the largest “Israeli” settlements in the West Bank in 2017, where he said, “There is no such thing as the West Bank – it's Judea and Samaria. There is no such thing as settlements – they're communities, they're neighborhoods, they're cities. There is no such thing as an occupation.” The Baptist pastor said that “Israel” has a God-given entitlement, heirs of Abraham, over “Judea and Samaria,” which is the occupied West Bank that “Israel” captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

• Trump also chose another champion of “Israel,” New York Republican Rep. Alice Stefanik, to be the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. After Hamas’s attack on “Israeli” occupation and kibbutzim surrounding Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, Stefanik remained an outspoken critic of the U.N.’s handling of the war. She also made headlines.

• It is a strange turn of events that Trump named Huckabee as ambassador to “Israel” and real estate developer Steven Witkoff as his special envoy to the Middle East, before nominating Sen. Marco Rubio as US Secretary of State. Witkoff, a longtime Trump golf buddy who was with him during the second assassination attempt in September, will serve as the US special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff has no obvious foreign policy experience, but he has consistently praised Trump’s dealings with “Israel.” Marco Rubio, the senator Trump appointed to be US Secretary of State, has said he supports the “Israeli” war in Gaza, blaming Hamas for the massive civilian casualties, which he says “uses them as human shields.” “As horrible as the Nazis were, they weren’t posting their atrocities on social media and trying to trumpet what they were doing to the world, which is what makes this horrendous thing Hamas has done so much, to me, worse,” he said at an event with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Rubio stressed that he was not here to set policy, but to implement the president’s agenda. So did Huckabee, who claimed that he will not set policy. He also stressed he will implement the president’s policy.

Al-Waie comment:

These appointments portend a dark picture for Muslims in the coming Trump era. However, the Ummah will remain sincere to its Lord and will not wait for victory except from Him (swt).