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I would say arming Israel is now squarely on Congress.
In this case Joe Biden did not want to restart shipments but was forced by a Congressional resolution.
Here is a Reuters article covering the resolution, here is the house press release, here is the Congressional voting record.
Biden used emergency powers to bypass congress on shipping missiles to Israel before. This resolution is in range of veto, also holy shit what a title.
He used his powers to bypass the Congressional approval process and then has since been against shipping weapons most likely because of the blowback.
While he could veto this resolution given the overwhelming support by Congress it would only cause a short term delay.
Congress at that level of approval has the right to override a presidential veto and given that it was done with the express purpose of spiting the president's orders I don't think it would do much good.
I will never understand why people are so keen on laying this entirely at the presidency.
So why not do that then? Why not veto it and show he doesn't want more weapons sent to Israel? If you're so afraid of the inevitable "people will just vote for it anyways," why not just roll over and let Trump have his second term?
Because it's an ultimately pointless gesture if you read both those articles.