• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    25 days ago

    I’d say the U.S. not offering Israel any more support until they open the borders to aid would go a long way to solving things.

    But apparently that’s going way beyond the pale.

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      25 days ago

      And how exactly will that put food in the hands of the starving Palestinians?

      Again with the “if it’s not perfect, it’s not worth doing” bullshit I’m so tired of hearing about this conflict.

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        25 days ago

        Sorry… how will letting aid trucks into Gaza put food in the hands of starving Palestinians?

        You know what aid trucks are, right?

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          25 days ago

          Look we either spend a billion a year rebuilding this thing or we start looking for actual solutions to the problems we’ve caused. Do you want that? I thought so.

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          25 days ago

          You can’t be dense enough to believe that if the US stops sending Isreal aid, that suddenly Isreal will suddenly magically be completely disarmed, and aid trucks will suddenly be able to move freely. Aid trucks aren’t even on the table.

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              25 days ago

              And what other conclusion is there to your answers?

              Me: How would YOU put food into Palestinian hands?

              You: Stop sending aid to Isreal.

              Me: How does that put food in Palestinian hands?

              You: Aid trucks

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                25 days ago

                If that was what I said, you would be right. However, this is what I said:

                I’d say the U.S. not offering Israel any more support until they open the borders to aid would go a long way to solving things.

                I’m not sure why you think that sort of thing doesn’t motivate a country we’re giving billions of dollars in aid to, but it does.

                However, this is what you said in response:

                You can’t be dense enough to believe that if the US stops sending Isreal aid, that suddenly Isreal will suddenly magically be completely disarmed, and aid trucks will suddenly be able to move freely. Aid trucks aren’t even on the table.

                I said nothing about disarming Israel. And I know aid trucks are not on the table, because no one is motivating Israel to put them on the table. Again, withholding the billions of dollars in money and weapons we’re sending to Israel would go a long way to getting them to let aid trucks in to feed people. You seem to be suggesting that not sending them more weapons than they already have is disarming them. Which it is not.

                Or are you saying Israel doesn’t need American money and weapons anyway? Then maybe America should just stop giving them money and weapons regardless.

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                  25 days ago

                  My point is that stopping aid to Isreal won’t put food in Palestinian bellies any time soon. And when they’re starving right now, it’s a useless gesture.

                  Actually doing what CAN be done right now, which is bypassing land chokepoints by building a non-perfect dock to offload millions of lbs of food, is the best solution I’ve heard of thus far, to actually stave off the immediate problem of starvation.

                  I’m not saying I approve of continuing to send military aid to Isreal. We can attack this from multiple fronts, but getting food and medical aid into Gaza is the most urgent need. And I don’t find your efforts to undermine the most effective, if flawed, means of getting those supplies into Gaza to be helping the Palestinian’s plight in the slightest.

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                    25 days ago

                    You are either completely unknowledgable about the situation there or arguing in bad faith. But giving you the benefit of the doubt. There is more than enough aid waiting since months just outside the borders. Israel took over the Rafah crossing to Egypt, murdering two Egyptian soldiers in the process. There also enough aid is waiting.

                    By stopping to arm Israel the US might not provide food literally tomorrow, but within short time. That pier took over two months to build. More than enough time for the US to pressure Israel into behaving.

                    Again Israel could let in aid today if they wanted to. They could stop bombing hospitals, ambulances, aid workers, refugee shelters right now if they wanted to. The US could make them want that. And if simply cutting weapons wouldnt be enough the US could declare a no fly zone and break Israels chokeholds on the border crossings by force if necessary. The US could threaten and employ a sanctions regime that would threaten to vaporize the Israeli economy, making any government resign within days.

                    But the US doesnt do that. The US doesnt want that. The US wants to cover for this genocide and just pretend doing something about it, which is why they build an expensive pier for months that doesnt deliver aid and then breaks apart, while watching the single attempted aid delivery to be denied by the Israeli genocidal forces.