So about 3% of a single day's need for food in Gaza. Guess the other 97% of Gazan's can starve.
Complete total "we'll helping Gazans, vote for me" bullshit from Biden.
Genocide-loving and a complete total hypocrite.
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Ambassador Robert Ford (retired) spent his entire diplomatic career in the Middle East and North Africa since 1985, including being appointed as Ambassador to Syria by Obama, and by Bush Jr as Ambassador to Algeria.
He’s dead right, and I don’t know how anybody is calling this a victory for anyone except the few mouths this limited aid can help. The whole world saw an American ”Strategic Ally” treat us the same as countries they went to war with several times.
Bretton Woods and the Pax Americana is starting to crumble, while the Global South is watching. This is an incredible display of US weakness on the global stage, not the ‘they/them army’ the alt-right pretends is an issue. Biden’s inability or unwillingness here is astounding - he can’t/won't pressure an “ally” to not starve civilians to death, while the international community looks for any American leadership to break the deadlock on the ground in Gaza and the UNSC.
Empires be like imtooweak.meme
So if I give an arsonist a can of gasoline and some matches, which he then uses to burn my neighbor's house down; and I then give my neighbor a PB&J... am I a good guy or bad guy?
Don't get me wrong - please don't stop sending the PB&Js, but could we please stop giving supplies to the fucking arsonist??
Here's a guy named Steve, eating and reviewing one of these humanitarian rations, in case anyone was curious:
And with really good sound quality too, since they're also ASMR vids.
Well that was an interesting watch. He seems like a gem of a lad. Seemed to genuinely like the food and it did all sound appetising tbh.
Man.. Steve is a treasure.
Such a wonderful channel.
Please tell me those aren't fucking MAGAt hats. 🤦🏼♂️
You can't really see it clearly but my guess would be it's a unit hat. The military issues soldiers unit hats to wear as an alternative to normal headgear sometimes. It's a morale thing since the unit caps tend to be more like baseball caps than military headgear.
here is a shot of some air force civil engineers wearing their unit hats.
Army parachute riggers wear those red hats so they can be picked out of the crowd to assist paratroopers. It could be them or their equivalent in the Air Force, but I'm not sure if Air Force riggers wear the same hats or not.
The people in the photo are rigging the chutes on those pallets and are either Army or Air Force based on the camouflage pattern.
38.000 For 400.000 people?
They're spending more on the media campaign for this than the airdrop itself
How does the media in a capitalist country work...?
This guy notoriously believes (or posts like he believes) that all media is secretly controlled by the US government, which is in turn controlled by the Jews...it's uncomfortably close to and sometimes crosses the line
Man, I thought they had a containment Instance.
They do but that's not going to stop them from spamming other instances with BRICS propaganda leading up to the election.
I think you are seriously underestimating just how expensive the airdrops are. It’s not an adequate solution, but it is something that will help prevent some people from starving to death.
Yes, yes, Palestinians are lucky to have US' help. If it wasn't for US, they could avoid genocide against them, but on the other hand they would miss these free goodies.
If only there was another less expensive way 🤔
Spending millions of dollars of relief aid for the millions of dollars of genocidal actions they funded that caused for a need for relief aid in the first place.
This is like the Mafia sending you flowers in the hospital after they broke your knees.
Do you think that this genocide wouldn't have happened if thr US didn't supply weapons?
Literally yes. If Israel didn't have unconditional US support they'd have run out of bombs a long time ago. And probably gotten partitioned by their neighbors.
No, they wouldn't have. Israel has an impressive military of its own.
We're all gonna die some day, that doesn't mean it's okay to murder.
I'm not saying its okay to murder. Just you should focus your hate on the guys actually DOING the murdering not the person that sold them the weapons.
I'm not saying America is innocent just even if they didn't arm Israel, it woukdt really change anything
Gotcha. So if I read the comment right, in this case it probably isn't relevant that the US not selling the weapons would result in the same outcome.
I read the original comment as pointing out the hypocrisy in both providing aid whilst arming the attackers. As well as pointing out the commenters issues with the US being complicit in the attacks.
In my opinion, it doesn't matter if they would have done it anyway, the US is still guilty of being complicit regardless of how much aid they provide.
Yes the US still bares some guilt, but compared to the guilt the Israelis bare its inconsequential and not really worth the effort, because even if you managed to get the US to stop shipping weapons, it wouldn't stop thr genocide, so your effort is way better used trying to get the US to stop Israel from comiiting genocide, for example by not vetoing un resolutions.
Tldr there are better things to be at the US government about regarding this genocide.
Agreed there are better things to be angry at.
Disagreed that the US guilt is inconsequential.
But these are just our opinions and we're allowed to have different ones :)
Do you think that this genocide wouldn't have happened if [the] US didn't supply weapons?
It likely would've happened no matter what, but not on such a massive scale.
Edit: This might explain the downvotes. (NSFW - language)
1000 lb bombs are expensive. Napalm is cheap though.
Food for Palestine! Bombs for Israel! We're helping stop the Genocide!
Tons of bombs for Israel, 1.5% of one day's food need for Gaza.
"See, we're the Good Guys!!!"
Any help is better than none, that's obvious. However, 38,000 meals is not NEARLY sufficient when the UN's humanitarian office lists 2.2 million Palestinians at Crisis or worse levels of food insecurity (stage 3 of 5), of which over 500,000 are at the Catastrophe level (stage 5, the most serious before death). So you can see it would take 14 drops of that size (and each meal would have to get to the right people) to feed only the over 500,000 most desperately starving people a single meal, much less a day's worth of food.
The same report says there is no access to clean water in northern Gaza. There is also a lack of medicine with hundreds of thousands of people dangerously ill.
The only remotely sustainable solution is to follow the advice humanitarian agencies have been giving this whole time - allow MANY more trucks into the region. There were about 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily prior to Oct. 7th - since then it's very roughly 10-30% of that most days. If Biden and the rest of the Western powers actually want to turn this crisis around, they are going to have to pressure Israel to immediately open up crossings and stop interfering with aid delivery. I sincerely hope this is just the start of a much more concerted humanitarian effort than has been allowed. Otherwise I'm afraid these air drops will be little more than a political trick done so that people can say, "but look, we helped!"
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