Voldemort to arm Israel with new toys?

Ok, you ready for harsh? Better strap in and throw back a stiff drink.

How we got here or whether it was wise is a subject for another day. Nobody wants the Dark Lord to leave until the job is done. Not China, not the other Arab states and certainly not Europe. There's one way "out" and that's "forward".

Iran may or may not fear Voldemort, but they sure as hell fear Bibi. Notice they've recently bombed everybody but Israel, with good reason. They've seen what Israel did to Gaza. They are run by a right wing mob that's blood thirsty and has no boundries. Iran knows that Tehran could end up being a pile of ruble.

Trump's arming Bibi to do the unspeakable if diplomacy doesn't do the trick. That's the harsh reality. Nobody and I mean nobody is going to step in the way of getting oil flowing again.

Trump Administration Plans One of Largest U.S. Sales of Heavy Bombs to Israel

The proposed arms deal includes 2,000-pound bombs and bunker-busting warheads

By Jared Malsin and Alexander Ward, WSJ

Sept. 16, 2026

The Trump administration is planning a $2.8 billion deal to sell arms to the Israeli military.

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The Trump administration is planning one of its biggest-ever sales of heavy bombs to the Israeli military after nearly three years of war in the Middle East and amid declining American public support for Israel.

The proposed $2.8 billion arms deal includes 40,000 of the U.S.’s 2,000-pound bombs, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plan. Half of those would be MK-84 bombs and the rest would be BLU-117s, the officials said.

The deal would also include 20,000 bunker-busting warheads. Known as I-2000s, the warheads are designed to explode after bursting through concrete or other structures.

The money to purchase the bombs would come from foreign military financing, whereby the U.S. gives funds to other countries to purchase its weapons. The deal was earlier reported by the Washington Post.

The planned sale indicates continued U.S. military support for its ally, despite recent tensions between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a peace plan for Gaza. Last month, Netanyahu rejected Trump’s plan for a phased disarmament of Hamas and resumed airstrikes on the militants after a short pause in hostilities. Trump later said that Israel shouldn’t be striking Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, because the militants had agreed to give up their arms.

The Iran conflict has also strained Trump’s relationship with Netanyahu. The war, which killed many Iranian leaders and degraded some of its military, left the Iranian regime in place while Tehran unleashed missile and drone strikes across the region and caused a global oil supply crisis. Trump has vented some of his frustrations over the conflict in calls with the Israeli leader, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump in the Oval Office with a model airplane in front of them.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump at the White House in July. GPO/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

“I see it as a huge favor and an endorsement of the Netanyahu government. These are the types of weapons that cause the most damage,” said Seth Binder, an expert on U.S. weapons sales and policy director at the American Committee for Middle East Rights, a U.S.-based organization that advocates for human rights in the region. “In a moment when there’s a national conversation around ending assistance to Israel, this is going the complete opposite direction, doubling down in its support and then some.”

The White House declined to comment on a pending arms sale. A State Department spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israel has come under increasing international pressure over the toll the war in Gaza has taken on Palestinians. The Israeli military has used MK-84s among other munitions to destroy large areas of the Gaza Strip during its war in the enclave in response to the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people. The war has killed more than 73,000 people in Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities, who don’t say how many were combatants.

The blast radius of the MK-84 is up to 400 yards, meaning that the combined firepower of the proposed weapons in the sale would be enough to cover the entire surface area of the Gaza Strip multiple times over. Each bomb is capable of leveling an entire apartment building and of blasting a 50-foot wide crater. Israel says that its operations in Gaza are aimed at Hamas militants and that the military takes steps to protect civilians.

The Israeli defense ministry declined to comment. The Israeli prime minister’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Military analysts say that one potential legitimate use of the large payload bombs would be destroying underground tunnels and bunkers, places ordinary bombs can’t reach. The bombs could also be used in warfare in rural areas where there are few civilians present.

The administration sent an initial notification of the proposed sale to congressional committee leaders who will have a chance to review it before a formal public notification is sent to Congress as a whole.

The U.S.’s supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel during the war has shaped the Israeli military’s handling of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, and later became a source of tension in the U.S.-Israel relationship.

The Biden administration sent supplies of the bombs to Israel as a part of an airlift of weapons to support the Israeli military campaign in Gaza in the weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

In 2024, Biden paused the transfer of some 2,000-pound bombs to push back on a threatened Israeli offensive on a part of southern Gaza where many displaced civilians were sheltering. The Trump administration allowed the delivery to proceed.

In late February 2025, the Trump administration used an emergency rule in American arms control law to override congressional review on the transfer of more than 35,000 of the same type of 2,000-pound bombs, in a sale worth more than $2 billion.