Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery
Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery
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Mam, I wish geopolitics was as simple as you "genocide joe" bros seem to think it is.
This is actually huge and we should be celebrating it as a win. We'll that's if you actually care about the people of Gaza and don't just want to use them as an excuse to attack Biden.
the "genocide joe" people are pretty much the same as the people attacking dr. fauci for pushing vaccines, tbh
Not just Ukrainians. Uyghurs, Syrians, Kurds, Georgians, Quirimli, Chechens… the list goes fucking on.
The most vile shit they introduced into discourse around Gaza is the notion that genocide is a competition. “More people dead in n days in Gaza than in n months in Ukraine” is a statement that achieves only two goals: devalue human suffering and reveal the messenger to be a morally bankrupt psychopath.
Geopolitics isn’t simple. Being against genocides is simple.
America is trying to fix the problem it helped create.
So you think if Biden was so inclined to he could just say "no more support for Israel" and everyone would just happily go along with it because he's president and everyone has to do what he says?
Or would an administration with no majority in either the senate or the house maybe have trouble going against decades of policy and doctrine, to abandon its closest ally in an incredibly unstable and important region and put at risk American political and corporate interests in the area?
A win that Israel will continue to use US weapons against Palestine while we spend 2 months building a dock in order to deliver aid to people that are starving now?
It seems pretty disgusting of you to call this a 'win' and try to deflect criticism against those supporting genocide.
Well they are already airdropping food into Gaza which is the only other realistic option. So getting aid into gaza in 2 months IS a win since if they didn't then NO aid would get into Gaza.
And you would understand this if you actually gave a shit about these people instead of just wanting to use them to justify you political beliefs.
Yeah im sure Genocide Joe has perfectly good intentions when he says he plans build a port in a city he directly helped to ethnically cleanse, that just so happens to be within a few nautical miles of two massive oil wells recently discovered within Gaza's territorial waters, which have already been sold off to oil companies.
This is the same country that managed to kill people whilst dropping out of date, non-halal, food onto civilians.
Why are you so desperate to avoid seeing him for what he is? Are you feeling guilty for the horrors you've seen whilst still convincing yourself America is the good guy?
I mean for one I'm not taking someone seriously that unironicslly says "genocide Joe"
Also you might wanna learn the definition of "directly" because you're not using it right.
Also do you have any sources for any of the stuff you just claimed because I can't find info on it at all.
Like it's so obvious you don't actually give a shit about this people and it's just an excuse for you to say "but Biden bad" like the good little useful idiot you are.
It doesn't matter if he's building infrastructure to get needed aide onto gaza, or directly airdropping food into the city. You people will always try and find some mental gymnastics way to make it into Biden supporting genocide.
he directly helped to ethnically cleanse
citation needed. do you realise how silly you sound with this claptrap?
non-halal
Muslims are allowed to eat haram if they would otherwise starve, this kind of nitpicking is very elucidatory. Like, would you rather less food be delivered, or delivered with more delay, just to ensure it sticks to rules which are not even applicable to this scenario?
Did they find oil in Gaza? /s
But for real though, if/when Israel bombs a US-built humanitarian shipping port, will the US finally stop supplying bombs?
They did actually.
This is so silly. This is just Biden trying to keep both sides of his own party happy....
It’s a bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.
Is Palestine the husband and Israel the daughter?
Learning the history behind this conflict has made me reach the conclusion that the only way for it to be resolved is for Zionists to return the land they've stolen.
We’ll call it “reparations.” Israelis can live there too. As equals. Imagine.
As Jewish people did across the levant before the Nakba, with hope.
Just stop Israel and the problem is solved. No need to complicate yourselves with a damn port.
and how are you going to stop israel without declaring war on them? netanyahu is his own person.
K, America has broken all treaties with Israel to declare a surprise war with a nuclear power.
"We are not waiting on the Israelis"
Also
The scheme will take several weeks to put into action, however, carrying the risk of supplying too little relief, too late.
Someone tell Biden that if he actually wants to do something he has a few aircraft carriers and frigates nearby perfectly capable of delivering food
Or maybe Biden doesn't want to do anything. He just wants to make it look like he does something. Wonder which it could be.
You people are actually braidead.
Please tell me how a frigate, nevermind a fuckjng aircraft carrier can deliver supplies without a fuckjng port to dock in?
The big ship stays in the water, and is used to supply smaller water craft that can ferry them directly to the coast; either by using smaller existing docks, or by simplying beaching on the cost. Unless we are saying that the US military lacks the ability to do a water based ground attack unless the enemy kindly leaves a port for them to use.
Aircraft carriers actually have a lot of storage space since they have to be able to cruise around for a long time without resupplying. They have many "smaller" boats surrounding them which can easily transport food if they used their life boats.
If there''s a will there's a way. People are actively dying of starvation.
Waiting multiple weeks to build a pier for "clean delivery" is what I would use the adjective in your comment for.
The US and UK (either or) could've stopped the genocide immediately -- establishing a no-fly zone over Gaza and forcing israel to respect the Rafah border crossing instead of bombing it every time the trucks moved through a little too freely.
They have no intention of stopping this unless Hamas suddenly becomes much more profitable to western interests than Israel.
Israel already blocks all ship based access to Gaza. Building a port won't change this
I double dog dare Israel to try and stop a US Navy relief mission.
It does make one wonder why they didn't just land at Gaza's actual seaport.
Entirely possible you just can't anymore.
But having the US navy run it might. Essentially, it becomes a question of who blinks first. Humanitarian organizations run away scared when the regional power starts dropping bombs and shhoting at them; and Israel knows it.
Picking a fight wirh the US military is a much bigger deal. This is why the US response to conflicts is often just "send in an aircraft carrier to float around near the issue"
This is a moment for American leadership
Oooooooh shiiiit we know how this plays out
Still, at least the Palestinians have a shot at winning this one then 😂
Where is Meggido, again?
The war machine must play both sides.
So, do we want the Biden administration to continue to work towards supporting Palestine, or do we want them to revert back to a hard defense of Israel and ramp up arms production?
Lemmy users are fucking braindead when it comes to building support for unified movements in America, and it shows time and time again.
This might be news for yall, but a nation of people does not change course overnight.
Yall do realize you are supposed to reward positive actions to encourage more of them right? If you punish people for doing the right thing the same way you punish them for doing wrong, you are just fucking up your own message.
Personally I want America to fuck right off and stop propping up regimes that suit their needs to the detriment of humankind the world over.
I want the Biden administration to stop selling them weapons and going to bat for them at the UN.
I want anyone engaged in war crimes to face consequences for their actions tbh.
Nuanced voices are rarely the loudest
What is up with lemmy and playing 'would you rather'?
How about not shipping arms to Israel with one hand and sending aid to Palestine with the other. Whoever has money in both sides is making bank off of this. If the US wants to be world police then maybe don’t let things go this far before changing stance on the matter. It took a hell of a lot of killing before the US government started to condemn Israel.
I have a 100 dollar auto donation to Trump's campaign set up. My family was mad at me for that, so I also set up a 10 dollar donation to Biden. That didn't seem to get them off my back, so in a few weeks I'm going to up my donation to Biden to 30 dollars. For some reason my family is still mad and wants me to stop donating to Trump. Can't they just celebrate how awesome my donation to Biden is? AITA?
When the choices are: 1) profit, or 2) profit
Why not do both? /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza shoreline in the next few weeks to allow delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale, Joe Biden will announce in the State of the Union speech.
This is a moment for American leadership,” a senior US official said on Thursday, reflecting growing frustration of what is seen in Washington as Israeli obstruction of road deliveries on a substantial scale.
“Tonight, the president will announce in his State of the Union address that he has directed the US military to undertake an emergency mission to establish a port in Gaza, working in partnership with like minded countries and humanitarian partners,” the official said.
In his State of the Union speech, Biden will also announce the opening of a new land crossing into the occupied and devastated coastal strip.
Biden has been fiercely criticised within his own party for the failure to open up Gaza to humanitarian aid, with a famine looming and 30,000 Palestinians dead already since the start of war on 7 October.
“We will coordinate with the Israelis on the security requirements on land and work with the UN and humanitarian NGOs on the distribution of assistance within Gaza,” a senior official said.
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I've been asking for this. It feels kind of good, in a "it could be worse" sort of way, I guess. I hope the Israelis accidentally shell a jeep and cuss us out for parking there so that we can all agree to remove Netanyahu by force.
It’s happened before:
To which Hamas and/or the Israelis will probably start attacking it.
To which
Hamas and/orthe Israelis will probably start attacking it.
FTFY
In some parallel world, hamas would have such a port already built, because they didn't spend all their resources on building missiles.
Yeah, but the hot dog fingers tho…
