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The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be "pulling out every stop" to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.

"Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough," the US President said, noting "hundreds of trucks" should be entering the enclave.

Biden said the US is "going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses".

He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an "immediate ceasefire" that would allow additional aid in.

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[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

Too little, too late. Military intervention or nothing, Israel and Gaza need to be taken in by UN peacekeeping forces and a new dialogue needs to be started about how to find a permanent solution for the coexistence of Palestinians and Israelis. If the need exists, maybe even deconstruct the current Israel to make way for a more tolerant and democratic nation that respects people of all origin.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

They absolutely need a 2-state solution.

And neither of the 2 states should be the current states of Israel or Palestine.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

A 2 state solution is effectively impossible at this point. Israel won't let their settlements go and the Palestinians will not accept anything less than the 1967 borders. There's also the split country problem. Bangladesh used to be East Pakistan. Split countries have a bad habit of one part getting exploited pretty hard.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So what you're saying is the problem with the 2-state solution is the 2 existing states that I specifically said shouldn't be part of the solution?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You can't just do a rebrand. These are thousand year old ethic identities. There has to be a structural change as well.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

It's about re-election optics, not about helping Gazans.

[-] abracaDavid@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Ding ding ding!

They started seeing everyone posting on social media that they're not voting to support us paying for a genocide.

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Vote “uncommitted” in the primaries, all the centrists shaming progressives for having a red line at “genocide” are so desperately wrong about now being not the time to raise our voices, fuck them.

The only way to get Biden to care about the horrific mass slaughter of an entire population is to directly make him afraid he won’t get his power trip again if he doesn’t capitulate because it is blindly obvious nothing else will sway him until it’s farrrrrrrrr too late.

After the election is the worst time to do it, if Biden wins he will just completely ignore progressive/almost unanimous international outcry over Israel’s genocide and continue handwringing because why would he do otherwise given his ideology and the fact that he doesn’t need the votes anymore?

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Doubt UN troops would help here. They'd either get swayed like UNRWA was or would get the same treatment as Israelis.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

What is more plausible according to you:

  • Hamas managed to sway UNRWA and pretty much all of the known humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza?
  • Or that the situation on the ground is really dire and it was like this long before the 7th of October no matter what Israel is claiming.

And please feel free to send me any article of any non affiliated NGO or humanitarian organisation with Israel praising their efforts to achieve long lasting peace before the 7th of October.

Because I can easily do the opposite.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Our own intelligence agencies rated that as "low confidence". Which is the Intel version of pressing F to doubt. It means they found nothing to support the allegations. Typically it's followed by the briefer saying something like, "we do not recommend action on this item at this time."

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