Demonstrates how bad the humanitarian situation is if they’re resorting to this. Saw a report that atleast 10 Gazan children have starved to death so it’s getting desperate.
This war could be over tomorrow if Palestinians reveal where the hostages are being held and start turning over Hamas soldiers and leadership. Form a new government, be at peace with their neighbours and show the middle finger to Iran.
This is a difficult approach. The aid is needed. But unless they do pinpoint drops the aid will be swarmed and only the most violent will retain the supplies.
Hamas will appreciate it, let’s hope some of it actually makes it to the civilians.
I’m not against this but I want a plan to prevent this from becoming a similar situation to when ‘Somalian warlords stole the aid and used it to control the people’ situation that happened under the Clinton administration. Will this aid be dropped in both Hamas and Israeli territory? Will we scale back aid if Hamas seizes it all and stockpiles it for their soldiers instead of providing it to civilians? How will we deal with the unlikely but possible scenario of an aid plane being shot down? Will we send in troops in that situation or will we be relying on the Israeli military or god forbid Hamas, to keep any survivor safe?
The White House should address these concerns.
Yep getting these Berlin blockade vibes as well. Hell you need airdrops now even though they are inefficient and costly because of what just happened a few days ago with humanitarian aid. You have scared and hungry unarmed civilians being gunned down and ran over for wanting nothing but their basic needs to be somewhat met. This is a disaster.
USA should force Israel to allow international aid in meaningful amounts. And to do so, all Biden would need to do is to stop supplying weapons and bombs to IDF.
Surely this will go to starving civilians and not Hamas, right?
Interesting first step. With democracy at stake this November, Biden needs to be very careful in the conflict, and bow to the popular view on this issue in America. It would be ridiculous to hand the election to Trump over refusal to call out Netanyahu’s Israel. And this comes from a guy who isn’t that crazy about Palestine and has a more positive view for Israel in comparison, but democracy requires concessions.
Why are there no Muslim nations performing airlifts/convoys etc… to Gaza? Does the Arab world not care about Palestinian children starving?
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Regardless of if it’s going to help the situation or not, this is good practice for the US military
Well, that would be an excellent PR campaign. Imagine how much the opinion of the US changed in Germany during the Berlin airlift.
To the anti-Biden lefties out there: If Trump were president these air drops would be bombs, not aid.
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Planes in the air over a war zone. This has a scary potential to turn very tense very quickly.
Drop a fuck ton of food and medicine. Everywhere. Cluster bomb all the refugee areas with MREs. Blanket the goddamn strip with so much shit that nobody needs to swarm or trample over each other to get enough food to last weeks. So much that Hamas has no incentive or realistic ability to hoard it. Put a Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag on the front of each package and write “let all People of the Book choose peace” and inside the packages put the least biased newspapers that are printed in Arabic, and translate messages from the President.
This probably escalated way beyond what Hamas officials had expected would happen when they attacked Israel Oct. 7th.
The mix of extremly high victim numbers on Israelian side, Bibi not wanting back into prison, the shocking pictures of civilians being executed etc. probably brewed to a scale of response from IDF side that pales a lot of things in comparison.
And the situation in Gaza is apparently so horrendous for civilians, that the US feels forced to build an air bridge to support despite their allies still on offensive against the terrorists.
In case anyone is wondering, they are doing airdrops so that Hamas doesn’t steal the aid. They are trying to get it directly into the hands of the Palestinians who need it. This is not because of Israel blocking aid. 
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Demonstrates how bad the humanitarian situation is if they’re resorting to this. Saw a report that atleast 10 Gazan children have starved to death so it’s getting desperate.
Edit: [The president added that the US will “insist” that more trucks and routes be added so more aid can be delivered to people in Gaza. “We’re going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses,” Biden added.](https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-03-01-24/h_8e194d7ed29a0dcdc076fcdd51b80619)
This war could be over tomorrow if Palestinians reveal where the hostages are being held and start turning over Hamas soldiers and leadership. Form a new government, be at peace with their neighbours and show the middle finger to Iran.
This is a difficult approach. The aid is needed. But unless they do pinpoint drops the aid will be swarmed and only the most violent will retain the supplies.
Hamas will appreciate it, let’s hope some of it actually makes it to the civilians.
I’m not against this but I want a plan to prevent this from becoming a similar situation to when ‘Somalian warlords stole the aid and used it to control the people’ situation that happened under the Clinton administration. Will this aid be dropped in both Hamas and Israeli territory? Will we scale back aid if Hamas seizes it all and stockpiles it for their soldiers instead of providing it to civilians? How will we deal with the unlikely but possible scenario of an aid plane being shot down? Will we send in troops in that situation or will we be relying on the Israeli military or god forbid Hamas, to keep any survivor safe?
The White House should address these concerns.
Yep getting these Berlin blockade vibes as well. Hell you need airdrops now even though they are inefficient and costly because of what just happened a few days ago with humanitarian aid. You have scared and hungry unarmed civilians being gunned down and ran over for wanting nothing but their basic needs to be somewhat met. This is a disaster.
USA should force Israel to allow international aid in meaningful amounts. And to do so, all Biden would need to do is to stop supplying weapons and bombs to IDF.
Surely this will go to starving civilians and not Hamas, right?
Interesting first step. With democracy at stake this November, Biden needs to be very careful in the conflict, and bow to the popular view on this issue in America. It would be ridiculous to hand the election to Trump over refusal to call out Netanyahu’s Israel. And this comes from a guy who isn’t that crazy about Palestine and has a more positive view for Israel in comparison, but democracy requires concessions.
Why are there no Muslim nations performing airlifts/convoys etc… to Gaza? Does the Arab world not care about Palestinian children starving?
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Regardless of if it’s going to help the situation or not, this is good practice for the US military
Well, that would be an excellent PR campaign. Imagine how much the opinion of the US changed in Germany during the Berlin airlift.
To the anti-Biden lefties out there: If Trump were president these air drops would be bombs, not aid.
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Planes in the air over a war zone. This has a scary potential to turn very tense very quickly.
Drop a fuck ton of food and medicine. Everywhere. Cluster bomb all the refugee areas with MREs. Blanket the goddamn strip with so much shit that nobody needs to swarm or trample over each other to get enough food to last weeks. So much that Hamas has no incentive or realistic ability to hoard it. Put a Palestinian flag and an Israeli flag on the front of each package and write “let all People of the Book choose peace” and inside the packages put the least biased newspapers that are printed in Arabic, and translate messages from the President.
This probably escalated way beyond what Hamas officials had expected would happen when they attacked Israel Oct. 7th.
The mix of extremly high victim numbers on Israelian side, Bibi not wanting back into prison, the shocking pictures of civilians being executed etc. probably brewed to a scale of response from IDF side that pales a lot of things in comparison.
And the situation in Gaza is apparently so horrendous for civilians, that the US feels forced to build an air bridge to support despite their allies still on offensive against the terrorists.
In case anyone is wondering, they are doing airdrops so that Hamas doesn’t steal the aid. They are trying to get it directly into the hands of the Palestinians who need it. This is not because of Israel blocking aid.