The U.S. will not change its policy on arms transfers to Israel even though the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains dire, the State Department said Tuesday, the deadline the White House set for Israel to ramp up access to aid in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters the decision came as “Israel has taken a number of steps” outlined in a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Israeli counterparts last month. “We continue to be in discussion with Israel about the steps they took and other steps they need to take,” he said.
An average of just over 30 trucks a day have been let into Gaza in recent weeks, representing “just over six percent of the daily needs,” according to Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
The US is a fucking joke. Biden should be ashamed of himself
gestures vaguely at the last week in particular
Are you suggesting that if the dems won, they would have stopped the unlimited support for Israel’s genocide?
Unless there’s a coup in the DNC, we’re going to see a repeat of this week in 2026 and 2028.
If the democrats had learned anything at all, they would stop all arms shipments and sanction Israel right now so they can credibly say to voters they want the same things.
I think they’re suggesting that, if you think what you’re seeing now is “unlimited support,” you’ll have a pretty shocking 2025. There can’t be a repeat in '26 and '28 if there are no Palestinians left.
We had a shitty choice to make, and we chose to accelerate this genocide so we can get on to all the others, but hey…if it teaches a liberal a lesson that’s a chance we’re willing to take. At least it’ll be over for them faster this way.
I think they’re suggesting that, if you think what you’re seeing now is “unlimited support,” you’ll have a pretty shocking 2025.
Every weapon congress allowed, the US sent to Israel, and the US used its standing military to prevent anyone else from stopping Israel. The Biden admin has done literally nothing to limit Israel’s genocide and has used the military and diplomatic power to ensure that it continues.
We had a shitty choice to make
We didn’t choose shit, the democrats made choices at every opportunity that lowered turnout. Genocide lowers turnout. Saying you’re going to appoint republicans to your cabinet lowers turnout. Pledging to shut down the border and build the wall lowers turnout. Means testing all of your campaign promises lowers turnout. Like anyone who’s been paying attention, I spent the last 4 years telling anyone who’d listen that if the democrats do this shit, Trump will win in 2024, and now somehow it’s everyone’s fault except the democrats.
Yeah let’s focus on Biden….
Yes, let’s. Or is he not president anymore? Who the fuck else should we blame
I don’t think Biden knows he’s president half the time. Trump isn’t gonna change anything though, so don’t get too excited. It’s up to someone else to stop it.
Why would you assume I thought Trump was going to change anything?
Oh, he’s gonna change things. Not for the better, imo
I agree. It’s just not relevant to this discussion
You’re the one who said his name.
Great. If he’s incompetent, Harris should have stepped up long ago or even today or even tomorrow to boot his ass for the next month.
But I don’t think you’re seriously suggesting that. Are you?
Remember when Biden’s admin said they’d cut off aid if Israel didn’t let aid into gaza and stop killing humanitarian workers, but set the deadline for just after the election?
This proves it was a cynical ploy and they never intended to limit their support of Israel’s genocide.
Just shows that the democrats would rather lose to trump than to stop pouring billions into the military industrial complex.
There was/is no downside for the democrats to have ended the genicide in Palestine. Zionest and evangelical Christians were never going to vote blue anyways. So why give them what they want when they knew they would losemillions of Arab, Muslim, and left members of their base?
Literally many Arab, Muslim, and left organizations in swing states told DNC that they would not vote for them if they didn’t end the genicide. And the DNC and Neo-Liberals of the party laughed in their faces. Whelp. Here we are.
Is asking for no genicide by anyone really too much to ask for? Even more so when we literally have the power to stop it?
Remember when Joe Biden had them make an “aid pier” that was only really used to launch a massacre from before it collapsed?
Americans, the bombs getting used to vaporize the children of Gaza are paid for with your taxes.
Did you know an American soldier died last week from an injury accident during the aid pier?
Oof. Imagine dying for a vanity project to white wash genocide.
Unfortunately, we have our own shit to worry about, like work camps and the upcoming trump dictatorship. You’ll need to get the EU to help Gaza now.
The point is that the US was never really helping the people of gaza, just enabling the people murdering them.
I think that point was made years ago.
Agreed, though that’s also why I don’t think anyone is expecting the EU to be particularly helpful either
To all of the Harris supporters out there, this is one of the things that people didn’t like about her. She’s part of this problem, even now, after she lost.
