CaractacusPotts

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17490070

humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17439723

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17439722

Palestinian Territory – Israel’s army has again massacred Palestinian civilians who had gathered in Gaza to obtain humanitarian aid, targeting them with gunfire from helicopters, tanks, and drones near the Kuwait roundabout on the outskirts of Gaza City. This incident has resulted in over 60 deaths and 160 injuries, some of which are critical.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Hardly surprising...

Biden has always seen Israel as an investment which produces the best returns for U.S. interests.

In 1986, when he was a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, he opposed the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia because they were not able to become “agents of .U.S interests in the Persian Gulf region.”

He stressed that his opposition to the weapons sale was not about whether the Saudis were good guys or bad guys, but about the ability of the Saudis to help advance and secure U.S. interests.

He emphasized that the “naked self-interest of the U.S.” should always guide their Middle East policy, and that his support for Israel is situated within that self-interest. As he bluntly explained: “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”

https://theconversation.com/biden-says-the-u-s-would-have-to-invent-an-israel-if-it-didnt-exist-why-210172

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The difference is that Israel is considered an occupying power and has responsibilities under international law as such.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and his Yeshiva are sponsored by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Children are starving to death, how many more will die before this pier gets built?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Hamas who walked away from the peace talks because Israel wouldn’t agree to the destruction of Israel?

Cite sources.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

🤦‍♂️

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a significant Muslim population in Michigan that is paying attention. Michigan is a swing state, if Biden loses it he probably loses the election.

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Was he right about Trump in 2016 or not?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore agreed that Biden’s stance on the ongoing slaughter in Gaza could easily cost him the state, and in turn, the entire election. In a recent interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip, Moore said “I’ve been saying this month that he’s going to cost himself the election. …If Trump has any chance, it’s the decision that [Biden’s] made to embrace slaughter, carpet bombing, babies in incubators dead because they cut off the electricity, on and on and on.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/28/uncommitted-vote-in-michigan-highlights-bidens-extremely-precarious-candidacy/

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca -5 points 7 months ago (89 children)

But you won't blame the Biden administration for disregarding the wishes of their constituents?

[–] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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