Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza
Biden announces U.S. will airdrop food aid into Gaza
The president reiterated that the U.S. is trying to push for an immediate cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in order to allow more aid into Gaza.
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Trucks are more efficient. We should drive US army trucks full of food and aid into Gaza. Dare Israel to bomb them and if they do it should rapidly sour American support for Israel's genocide.
They would be more efficient, if Israel would let them in instead of stopping, searching, and removing items they don't like... like antibiotics, bandages, and food... you know... the usual.
Netanyahu’s office also said Monday the War Cabinet had approved a plan to deliver humanitarian aid safely into Gaza in a way that would “prevent the cases of looting.”
I've got a plan for that. Send more food. Just keep sending more and let the starving people "loot" them until they're so not-starving they leave leftover food on the trucks.
Who cares if they're looting food? People taking stuff without paying is the point of aid, and if that means the stuff isn't getting to its eventual destination it just means you need to send more stuff. Hamas having an overflowing stockpile of food isn't a security threat unless you're intentionally using starvation as a weapon.
This is very naive. What if it's not the starving people doing the looting? It's Hamas or whoever had the guns, and then they get to charge the starving people whatever they have for the food they took. The reason to prevent looting is to make sure the food actually makes it to the people who need it
Then keep jamming food into Gaza until Hamas has filled its caches and has no more space. Hamas having too much food isn't a threat and slowing down imports doesn't make more food somehow reach the people who need it. Food is only potentially valuable because people are starving, flood the market with food and you both don't have starving people and don't have an income stream for looters.
This "what if people who don't need it get it" anti-welfare mindset is stupid in general, but particularly ghoulish when you're talking about food for starving people. Food isn't a costly or limited resource, we can very much waste a little money on food that isn't precisely targeted to the most desperate to alleviate a humanitarian crisis of our own making.
You might think we wouldn't support them after that, but history disagrees.
The IDF has a long history of murdering Americans and not even getting the slightest condemnation for it.
You think Israel wouldn't bomb Americans? Ask the crew of the USS Liberty.
You've no idea how logistics work lol
Northern Gaza is hard to reach. In recent weeks there was talk about dropping food aid. Then Hamas took pictures of themselves with their anti aircraft man pads and missles. That made private air drops impossible, as civilian flyers don't even have counter measures for that. King Abdullah of Jordan and world kitchen then gave it a shot, and there was no AA. Now the US Airforce will give it a try. They have to fly low on these drops, so look out below.