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Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza
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And then Israel will bomb Gazans as they're rushing to get some food
Using the weapons that the US supplied to Israel
Israel builds their own weapons and have for many years. The US and many others but them though and that supports them.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/us-weapons-provided-israel-aircraft-missiles-bombs
https://afsc.org/video/five-things-you-should-know-about-us-weapons-transfers-israel
Not only does the United States supply Israel with weaponry, it also provides them with literally billions of dollars for military spending, which it's able to spend in its own military industry. It's pretty fucked up.
Pretty sure that quit being true round 1985. At this point, even with no military aid, it's a "real country" and ending it would be expensive in every sense of the word for all trying.
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/17/joe-biden-rafah-israel-gaza-bombs/
196 other countries and no where to buy ammunition? Kay.
Pray tell about your local JDAM dealer
Russia aiding Israel would probably place it in opposition to Iran. This might actually be a good time to move support from israel to ukraine and just see what happens.
Countries don't have friends, they have interests. If Iran has to choose between Russia and Palestine that's not good for Palestine.
which will be collateral to their longstanding policy of waiting to hit the aid drop until all the food is unpacked so they maximize damage
Wonder what would happen if they went full crazy and shot the planes dropping supplies. they're helping hamas so we shot them down
USS Liberty says not much would happen.
I would say the us would make a lot happen if Israel shot down one of our planes.
But you have a point, this is a little different though.
There is no way to claim they didn’t know this time
Yeah, the US public is much more aware now than they were in 1967.
I think Israel is batshit insane enough right now that we might get to find out!
The IDF: We're protecting the Palestinians since Hamas is in the air drops!
Yup...Israel said Hamas was flying the supply planes from the US. They were right when they said that it was actually Hamas that blew up every single hospital in Gaza, so I have no reason to doubt them. (/s, for the fucking jamokes would believe this, or any bullshit Israel spews, to be true)
You might need a /s there. I actually see users here that believe and spread that bullshit.
I thought about it, but then I decided to embellish what I had initially written until I felt it was sufficiently absurd.
The problem with that is that there are so many crazies and shills on the internet, some people will take you seriously.
Absolutely nothing
Every service member is entitled to defend themselves. Some do it by launching flares. Others do it by firing anti radiation missiles at any missile system doing enough to target them.
But honestly, the Israelis aren't going to do that. They aren't cartoon villains. They are smart and know exactly what they want and how to get there.
Yeah cartoon villains usually don’t commit genocide, and see the thing here is that Israel has no fucking clue how to get where they want to go and they are blindly engaging in mass violence that will ensure Israel will be unsafe for decades to come (can you imagine how badly you would want to hurt the people who murdered your entire family for no reason?).
You can be veryyyyy smart and still be a fascist at the same time unfortunately.
You assume they want safety. Netanyahu and group want power.