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    3 months ago

    My wife pointed this article out to me the other day.

    I’m sorry - I don’t know how archive sites and paywall bypass things work, but I refresh it fast and load it in reader view before their JavaScript can execute.

    Here are some extracts:

    [Ronald Regan] was livid. He had just been shown pictures of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the phone and then dressed him down sharply.

    Mr. Reagan [demanded], it had to stop. [Israel’s prime minister,] Mr. Begin heeded the demand. Twenty minutes later, he called back and told the president that he had ordered a halt to the shelling. “I didn’t know I had that kind of power,” Mr. Reagan marveled to aides afterward.

    Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel

    Note: this is from May. Biden paused one shipment.