Trucks are more efficient. We should drive US army trucks full of food and aid into Gaza. Dare Israel to bomb them and if they do it should rapidly sour American support for Israel’s genocide.
They would be more efficient, if Israel would let them in instead of stopping, searching, and removing items they don’t like… like antibiotics, bandages, and food… you know… the usual.
Netanyahu’s office also said Monday the War Cabinet had approved a plan to deliver humanitarian aid safely into Gaza in a way that would “prevent the cases of looting.”
I’ve got a plan for that. Send more food. Just keep sending more and let the starving people “loot” them until they’re so not-starving they leave leftover food on the trucks.
Who cares if they’re looting food? People taking stuff without paying is the point of aid, and if that means the stuff isn’t getting to its eventual destination it just means you need to send more stuff. Hamas having an overflowing stockpile of food isn’t a security threat unless you’re intentionally using starvation as a weapon.
This is very naive. What if it’s not the starving people doing the looting? It’s Hamas or whoever had the guns, and then they get to charge the starving people whatever they have for the food they took. The reason to prevent looting is to make sure the food actually makes it to the people who need it
Then keep jamming food into Gaza until Hamas has filled its caches and has no more space. Hamas having too much food isn’t a threat and slowing down imports doesn’t make more food somehow reach the people who need it. Food is only potentially valuable because people are starving, flood the market with food and you both don’t have starving people and don’t have an income stream for looters.
This “what if people who don’t need it get it” anti-welfare mindset is stupid in general, but particularly ghoulish when you’re talking about food for starving people. Food isn’t a costly or limited resource, we can very much waste a little money on food that isn’t precisely targeted to the most desperate to alleviate a humanitarian crisis of our own making.
You might think we wouldn’t support them after that, but history disagrees.
You think Israel wouldn’t bomb Americans? Ask the crew of the USS Liberty.
The IDF has a long history of murdering Americans and not even getting the slightest condemnation for it.
You’ve no idea how logistics work lol
Northern Gaza is hard to reach. In recent weeks there was talk about dropping food aid. Then Hamas took pictures of themselves with their anti aircraft man pads and missles. That made private air drops impossible, as civilian flyers don’t even have counter measures for that. King Abdullah of Jordan and world kitchen then gave it a shot, and there was no AA. Now the US Airforce will give it a try. They have to fly low on these drops, so look out below.
So now we’re going to feed Gazans our food and our bullets?
Watch Israel airdrop fake aid that’s actually riddled with mines. Then the New York Times can run another story about Palestinians exploding spontaneously.
my guess is that later we will hear “gosh darnit we really tried with the food and it didn’t quite get there” meanwhile not one arms shipment will ever be late.
This is Biden creating a headline to try to slow down or stop people from becoming aware that he is (along with the rest of our govt) committing genocide
There might be some mixed messaging here
That’ll make up for all the Billions of Dollars worth of Bombs we gave Israel!
Question about the image.
When those bowls are filled up…how do the kids get the bowls out without turning them on their sides and spilling everything?
They pass them over the top, which is barely above their heads. It would not be a particularly hard maneuver, provided you have two hands.
Pass them up over the bar?
Sorry. The thumbnail I saw didn’t have the top of the bar.
USS Liberty 2, War Crime Boogaloo
He also announced a ceasefire by this weekend…
It’s Friday afternoon, and I have no idea why anyone believes Biden off his words after his first term.
He’ll say fucking anything, like blaming this genocide on Mexico for not being a good enough neighbor to Palestine.
Sometimes we’re told he just got confused, sometimes we’re told it wasn’t truthful but somehow not a lie.
The result is voters equate him to trump because they both keep doing the same shit.
That depresses turnout, and that’s how trump can win
I don’t think anyone actually believed the cease fire would happen.
US to Hamas: “Hey, we’d like you to give up any leverage you have over Israel.”
Israel to US: “Oh, and we want to end the cease fire any time we want.”
Hamas: “. . .”
He also announced a ceasefire by this weekend…
It’s Friday afternoon, and I have no idea why anyone believes Biden off his words after his first term.
Q Can you give us a sense of when you think that ceasefire will start, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend — I mean the end of the weekend.
At least, my —
Q Say again.
THE PRESIDENT: My National Security Advisor tells me that we’re close. We’re close. It’s not done yet. And my hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.
Source: Remarks by President Biden in Press Gaggle | New York, NY (February 26, 2024, 5:32 P.M. EST)
Q Do you expect a ceasefire by Monday, sir? Do you still expect a ceasefire is possible by Monday, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Hope springs eternal.
Q And what is —
THE PRESIDENT: I was on the telephone with the people in the region. I’m still — probably not by Monday, but I’m hopeful.
Source: Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure (February 29, 2024, 10:16 A.M. EST)
I would not interpret hopes for a ceasefire as the announcement of one.
He already walked it back…
Biden walks back prediction of Monday cease-fire deal in Gaza: ‘Hopeful’ but ‘probably not’
And in all likelihood this will never happen either.
Which is why it makes zero sense why people give him credit for what he says he’ll do.
Announcing we’re going to airdrop food isn’t remotely the same as expressing a hope that a ceasefire would happen.
