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Date: March 01, 2024 at 14:11:32
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza |
URL: https://apnews.com/article/biden-meloni-white-house-ukraine-112dacd932a45f42621a25b304ae5d99 |
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BY AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER AND MATTHEW LEE
Updated 1:22 PM PST, March 1, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin airdropping
emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza, President
Joe Biden said Friday, a day after more than 100
Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter
with Israeli troops.
The president announced the move after at least 115
Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were
injured, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry,
on Thursday when witnesses said Israeli troops opened
fire as huge crowds raced to pull goods off an aid
convoy.
Biden said the airdrops would begin soon and that the
United States was looking into additional ways to
facilitate getting badly needed aid into the war-
battered territory to ease the suffering of
Palestinians.
“In the coming days we’re going to join with our
friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops
of additional food and supplies” and will “seek to open
up other avenues in, including possibly a marine
corridor,” Biden said...
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Date: March 01, 2024 at 14:30:50
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Lol, while he continues to support israel w/weapons, money & military |
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Intelligence. Biden won’t call for a ceasefire. He won’t acknowledge
there’s a genocide occurring which he has been directly participating in
for months. And he’s suffering in popularity because of it . All he cares
about is being re-elected.
The inability of some of you people to see and acknowledge reality is
beyond bizarre. It’s sickness.
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Date: March 03, 2024 at 16:42:34
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Lol, while he continues to support israel w/weapons, money &... |
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they know, they don't have the words to answer yet.
mayb e they will keep quiet and it will go away. israel
explanation for the killings at the food site is also
sick. so sad.
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Date: March 01, 2024 at 17:32:42
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: How the mighty have fallen |
URL: https://twitter.com/jasmineelgamal |
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Jasmine M. El-Gamal
@jasmineelgamal
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5h
At no other point in recent history has a U.S. president looked weaker than
Joe Biden does just right now.
The world’s greatest economic and military superpower resorts to
dropping food from afar rather than stand up to a dependent ally.
How the mighty have fallen.
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Date: March 01, 2024 at 22:05:41
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to Biden’ |
URL: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to Biden’s Israel policy |
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saw this earlier on politico. we do look weak, we have a weak
leader with muddled policies. obvious to everyone
‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to Biden’s
Israel policy
The US normally does airdrops in hostile environments, not in areas
occupied by allies.
By ALEXANDER WARD
03/01/2024 05:53 PM EST
President Joe Biden’s decision to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza will
provide temporary relief for Palestinians on the ground — but it also
exposes the limits of America’s approach toward Israel.
When the U.S. sends military aircraft to drop food, water, medicine and
other assistance for people in need, it typically does so in areas occupied
by terrorist groups or hostile regimes, not allies. And yet, months of
pushing Israel to allow more aid into Gaza — where around 80 percent of
the population is displaced and famine looms — have yielded limited
results.
Even Biden, who refuses to blame Israel for the scarcity of supplies,
outwardly admitted Friday that more assistance should be getting into the
enclave.
“The truth is, aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere nearly enough now. It’s
nowhere nearly enough. Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives
are on the line,” Biden said alongside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
in the Oval Office. “We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, not just
several.”
For close watchers of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which has raged
following the militants’ Oct. 7 attack, the move to drop aid from the skies
signals Biden can’t persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
do more for suffering Palestinians.
“We look 100 percent weak,” said Dave Harden, a former humanitarian
assistance coordinator at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
“Administration officials are doing this just to make themselves feel
better.”
The National Security Council didn’t immediately respond to a request for
comment on that charge. But during a Friday news briefing, NSC
spokesperson John Kirby agreed with Biden’s overall assessment.
“We just haven’t been able to meet the need,” he said. “Not enough aid is
getting into people that need it. It’s not getting in fast enough, it’s not
happening in the quantity that we need. And we’re trying to act to the
need; we’re trying to behave and change and be more creative to meet the
desperate need of the people of Gaza.”
The good news is airdrop operations aren’t overly dangerous for U.S.
personnel, especially when there aren’t immediate threats to the aircraft
or crew, noted retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, who led U.S. Central
Command during the Trump and Biden administrations. There aren’t
enemies to shoot down the planes, he said, and working with aid agencies
on the ground to manage crowds clamoring for fresh supplies and food
won’t be too difficult.
Plus, McKenzie said in an interview Friday, the U.S. can use GPS to track
where the packages land. It’s not like the old days when troops did their
best to aim the drops and avoid harming civilian infrastructure or civilians
themselves in the process. “We’re pretty good at this, we’re pretty
precise,” he said.
But airdrops can also create perilous problems for people on the ground,
noted Harden. Without clear crowd control, Palestinians will fight for
morsels of the one or two truckfulls of assistance planes can carry. That
puts Jordanian troops working with the U.S. or aid organizations in a
tough spot to ensure the strongest don’t bully their way to the front of the
line.
Palestinians displaced from their homes in Gaza.
"Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives are on the line,”
President Joe Biden said. | Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
On Thursday, dozens of Palestinians were killed while scrambling for aid in
Gaza, prompting Friday’s announcement. “It was the final impetus,” said a
senior administration official, granted anonymity to reveal sensitive
internal thinking. Gazan health officials say Israeli troops fired into the
crowd, killing more than 100 people and injuring some 700 more. The
Israeli military denies attacking the humanitarian convoy.
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Harden insisted that, short of convincing Israel to open all the gates into
Gaza, the U.S. would be better off pushing Israel to allow 10 more trucks
to go through currently open crossings. “Airdrops are a stupid thing to do.
They’re expensive, they’re inefficient. It’s more symbolic to make people
in the administration feel good that we’ve done something,” he said.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who supports Biden’s decision, agreed
that what can be provided with aircraft alone is “a drop in the bucket to
what’s needed in order to relieve the impending famine.”
Still, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee member added in an
interview, “it sends the right message, including the fact that the United
States is absolutely fed up that the Netanyahu government is restricting
humanitarian assistance into Gaza to the point that the United States has
to airdrop food. I mean, that’s a statement in itself.”
Some critics, though. say the operation is also unnecessary.
The U.S. has many ways to influence Israeli actions, not least of which is
to consider conditioning military aid for the country. Democrats in
Congress have long suggested that Biden withhold new arms sales to
Israel until Netanyahu addresses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But
Kirby, aware the U.S. is in talks with Israel on a new weapons delivery, on
Friday reiterated the U.S. would continue to support Israel’s right to self-
defense.
“To make matters even more baffling, we’re doing this while continuing to
send weapons to the very military responsible for forcing us to conduct
aid airdrops,” said Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East
Institute.
“To make matters even more baffling, we’re doing this while continuing to
send weapons to the very military responsible for forcing us to conduct
aid airdrops.”
Charles Lister, senior fellow, Middle East Institute
The Biden administration insists its approach toward Israel is the right
one. An open break with Netanyahu and his far-right, anti-Palestinian
government would lead to more indiscriminate military operations and
less humanitarian aid would get into Gaza. It’s better for the U.S. to
maintain some influence with Israel than not at all.
The U.S. is also working with Israel, Hamas, Qatar and Egypt to broker a
hostage deal that would pause the fighting for six weeks. That cease-fire
would allow more assistance to get into the enclave, alleviating some of
the crisis that Israel’s retaliation against Hamas started.
That the Biden administration has to think this way, and is about to launch
airdrop missions, tells Lister that the U.S. approach is limited in its
effectiveness.
“The fact that the U.S. is having to mobilize military resources to airdrop
aid into Gaza is a staggering symbol of just how emphatic Israel’s
constraints are on access,” he said.
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Date: March 01, 2024 at 23:40:37
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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you have been bitching he'ds not doing anything...now you bitch about this too?
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 09:01:40
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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I was just thinking that, too. There is no bar that
won't be moved.
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 09:32:10
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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What bar? He's buried them all so deep we'll have to create
new ones...
But hey...that's no bad task, is it? ;)
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 10:09:02
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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Doing airdrops, which honestly--we should have started a
while ago, is at least a step in the right direction.
I'm guessing it was done over Netanyahu's wishes.
The Israeli people would do well to get rid of this guy
and not wait until the end of this war to do so.
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 13:43:27
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 12:03:45
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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;the news in israel does not show what is going on in
gaza. haretez might mention something once in a while
but the public does not know what is going on in gaza.
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 13:15:15
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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no, both media...pro Palestinian and pro Israeli media,
need to be consumed with a skeptical eye.
assume all is skewed to one degree or another.
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 00:01:47
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: ‘We look 100 percent weak’: US airdrops in Gaza expose limit to... |
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he does screw up a lot , doesn’t he? biden actually vetoed the UN on
calling for a ceasefire, while pushing a bill that would send billions more in
weapons to israel to continue the slaughter of innocent women and
children. this latest shows just how weak america currently is due to
biden. air drop to starving people is too little too late. these starving
people are desperate as shown yesterday when they swarmed aid trucks
and israel managed to kill over 100 starving people and wound almost a
1,000
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 07:49:52
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: so stupid to provide aid and ammunition at same time. |
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i hope the pubs cancel the aid to israel. that is not
antisemitic, this is for sanity. how are those soldiers
supposed to sleep at night after shooting a little girl
on the street???
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Date: March 02, 2024 at 12:05:58
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: so stupid to provide aid and ammunition at same time. |
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agreed. and with 2 million starving people air drops will likely end up
causing riots and more deaths. as will the billions more in heavy bombs to
israel
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Date: March 01, 2024 at 15:30:12
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Lol, while he continues to support israel w/weapons, money &... |
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well then, you'll be voting for Trump then. Yeah, he'll
treat the palestinians better, sure.
At least Biden is listening now and moving toward that
direction. Fast as I'd like? No.
The other one..he's fine with just throwing the gazans
all to the wolves without a second thought, and faster.
He won't even feel bad about it. He'll hand Netanyahu
the nuke to do it.
Just ask the Kurds.
The inability to see that reality is beyond me, Akira.
It won't do innocent Israeli citizens any good either.
Your black and white view of everything doesn't aid
anyone.
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