News - Middle East: The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has hit out at US President Joe Biden for his decision to delay arms shipment to Israel.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that Biden’s decision to hold up delivery of high payload munitions to the Israeli regime was taken over a possible Israeli ground offensive in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Austin further claimed that Washington allegedly believed such shipment could put Palestinian civilians at risk.
Later in the day, AIPAC, which has the resources to tip elections, spends millions on lobbying, and wields its supporters as a potent grassroots activist army in Congress, denounced the decision as a “dangerous and counterproductive message.”

“It emboldens Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and undermines America’s commitments to all our allies,” it claimed in a social media post.

“Congress must demand the Biden Admin reverse this delay and ensure Israel has what it needs to win this war” further said AIPAC, which has been spending millions of dollars on US elections to defeat candidates critical of the occupying regime.