Could those 1000 troops not just use the Rafah crossing to bring things directly in? Israel would be fucking daft to fire on US troops distributing aid.
Daddy Netanyahu told Biden no
This was a bad idea along with the airdrops. All because Biden is unwilling to pressure Netanyahu publicly or set any red lines. So now he’s trying to scramble to give aid to one and bombs to another rather than do the simpler move of reigning one side in and allowing them to send in aid. International law says that Israel is required to allow this aid in or help, and they are doing neither.
Yeah this seems crazy. We should just require Israel to set forth and protect a humanitarian corridor. We have a ton of leverage against Israel.
Because they are Muslim and brown. The US doesn’t have a stellar reputation of being kind to brown people. So no wonder we are quicker providing bombs for Israel then we are on giving aid to Gaza.
If not voting Biden didn’t give us Trump (who be 1000% worse) then I would do anything I could to make sure Biden loses in November. But nope I live here and have to hold my nose and vote Biden even though he a terrible human and fucking bad president.
Too bad we’re not at war with them or it could get done in 48 hours.
Didn’t take 2 months and 1000 troops to sell weapons to Netanyahu.
Probably less
Yeah that’s too long unfortunately. Hunger and lack of medical care are going to kill so many that maybe it was part of the plan all along to make it easier to deny
Why don’t you fly to Tel Aviv, buy some food, and take a taxi to the border to walk into Gaza hand out food yourself?
You’re telling me that taking 2 months to build a pier as one of the largest and wealthiest armies in the world is reasonable?
Oh god crucify me for pointing out that 2 months when they’ve already been starving might be too long. Innocents don’t deserve to die, sorry for having bare minimum empathy
Food really isn’t something one needs that quickly unless you’ve got no fat on your body. I remember reading a paper about an obese guy who (voluntarily) fasted under care of a doctor for over a year. Took vitamins, but other than that, just water.
Water, on the other hand, is really important. No water, you’re dead inside a week, maybe a little longer.
2 months seems like a reasonable timeline for a large infrastructure project halfway across the earth from the us. ofc its a horrible situation and they could save a lot more lives if they could just truck aid in.
They can just truck aid in, but they won’t because Biden either is spineless or he just doesn’t care about the babies dying of hunger.
