India, Sept. 16 -- The bill for the latest chapter of the Gaza genocide arrived Tuesday with a round number: $2.8 billion, transferred through the Foreign Military Financing program and allocated entirely by American taxpayers. What it buys is forty thousand bombs, including twenty thousand two-thousand-pound munitions the Biden administration had paused over documented mass casualty concerns, now approved for delivery to Israel under Donald Trump's signature.

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said he would work to block the sale. The government receiving the weapons is "led by a wanted war criminal," he told reporters, a reference to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Sending bo...