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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I do. They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid, even if netanyahu and the IDF are being real pieces of s*** about letting it get delivered.

It helps biden's image, but to call it a "public relations distraction at best" is absurdly narrow-minded and dismissive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid,

Are they? AFAIK the pier was a failure as soon as it started operating, and if the IDF isn't letting aid get delivered then what was even the point?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The US could force open Southern Gaza borders any time he wanted to using diplomacy alone. The border where Israeli citizens are preventing and destroying aid. The border where aid shipments have arrived for years and where there is an efficient system for delivery.

Building a temporary pier is not a serious attempt to deliver aid. Nor was airdropping big boxes, at least one of which killed someone. They are PR and a cover for small-scale military entry and egress.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this the same Biden who told us last October that he saw photos of beheaded babies? The same government that continues to evade calling this what it is: a genocide? The same one that continues providing the materiel for this genocide, which could not continue without it? Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.