“Three U.S. C-130 cargo planes dropped 66 total bundles, equating to about 38,000 pork-free meals, into the territory on Saturday morning. The bundles were split between three planes, the official said.”
“The airdrop is expected to be the first of many announced by President Joe Biden on Friday. The aid will be coordinated with Jordan, which has also conducted airdrops to deliver food to Gaza.”
Fund the weapons from one side and then buy media karma by dropping aid packages to the other side. It truly is election season.
It sucks that the other option would rather drop more bombs rather than food.
All it takes to stop Trump is for a single person, Joe Biden, to stop helping Israel genocide Palestinians.
I mean, even if Joe Biden is helping Israel out of Principle (whatever genocide-loving “principle” that is) and would have to swallow that principle to “stop Trump”, it says a lot that Joe Biden refuses to do so and has his team running around demanding that millions of Americans are the ones who swallow their Principles “to stop Trump”.
A radical other option is to stop dropping bombs
Robert Ford, a former US ambassador to Algeria and Syria wrote on X that being forced to carry out airdrops on Gaza (instead of delivering supplies by truck) was “Israel’s worst humiliation of the USA I’ve ever seen”.
Israel says many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic crush for food aid, and its troops fired warning shots after the crowd moved toward them in a threatening way.
So we are totally uncritically accepting their narrative now, got it.
So we are totally uncritically accepting their narrative now, got it.
I dont know if you are following the current NYT drama or not but this article and its underpinnings have been forming up since the 7th.
Basically several NYT and BBC (bbc not covered in the above) stories and articles have been show to be basically plants.
Then there is the shockingly uncritical way that the US government took the Israeli report on UNRRA, that upon any inspection, has 0 evidence attached to it.
Its a total shit show. If it wasn’t actual fascism on the line at the ballot box this November, I wouldn’t be voting for Joe Biden, and even then, he makes it harder to stomach every week.
I live in a red state. Republicans have made me actually worry about my children’s future in more ways than one. I will be lining up to vote for Democrats for the foreseeable future unless there’s a truly radical candidate running D (maybe RFK Jr if he ever runs).
I hate that my choice is to vote against my children or not. I wish both parties were rational. Instead the real election is the primaries. And this year there basically wasn’t one.
There are a lot more positions to vote on than the POTUS.
The more support the president has in the other branches, the more they all can do, and the
futurefewer consessions.The fact of the matter is, the Dems need majorities in both houses, and enough margin that a couple DINOs can’t fuck everything up.
100% We need a majority of liberals. Or a couple of untimely deaths in the Supreme Court when Dems have the Senate.
You have to protect yourself before you can help others.
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.
