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Israel is starving Gaza (www.btselem.org)
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Israel forces aid organizations to purchase food from Egypt and prevents them from buying it in Israel, which would allow for a more efficient and rapid transfer of goods. Israel also prohibits the private sector in Gaza from purchasing food, which could significantly increase supply. Although Israel recently allowed trucks in through Kerem Shalom Crossing, too, which is designed for commercial transports, this was merely a token addition that has failed to alleviate the hardship.

Aid organizations are struggling to operate under current conditions, and most of the limited aid allowed in remains in Rafah instead of reaching residents throughout the Strip. Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, listed several reasons why aid cannot be efficiently distributed. Among other things, he noted that trucks are inspected several times before Israel allows them into Gaza, and even then, long lines form due to the conditions at Rafah Crossing. The little food that does get in is very difficult to distribute due to the constant bombings, destroyed roads, frequent communication blackouts, and shelters overflowing with of hundreds of thousands of IDPs crowding into smaller and smaller areas.

Israel can, if it so chooses, change this reality. The images of children begging for food, people waiting in long lines for paltry handouts and hungry residents charging at aid trucks are already inconceivable. The horror is growing by the minute, and the danger of famine is real. Still, Israel persists in its policy.

Changing this policy is not just a moral obligation. Allowing food into the Gaza Strip is not an act of kindness but a positive obligation under international humanitarian law: starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited

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[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On top of genocide of Palestinians, Trump also wants to genocide POC and LGBT at home.. Are you saying you're ok with the latter? What is the logic there?

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And yet all it would take for Trump to not be elected is for one man, one single man, to change the way he acts.

Yet, instead of that easy, logical option of Biden behaving differently, the millions of Americans who feel revolted with this Genocide and the US Administration's giving material support to the genociders, are supposed to ignore their Principles and vote for the guy who is activelly giving heavy bombs to be used in committing mass murder.

Joe Biden is not willing to stop supporting Genocide even against the Principles of millions of people who voted for him and who he is supposed to represent, not even to make sure he gets their votes again so that Trump doesn't get elected.

Think about it. Think about what kind of person puts his desire to support those committing Genocide even against not merelly the wishes but even the Morals and Principles of those who elected him and even when by doing so he created a situation where there is a serious risk that Trump gets elected again.

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

And yet all it would take for Trump to not be elected is for one man, one single man, to change the way he acts.

I live in reality not fantasy. I cannot control Joe Biden. I can only realize I'm trapped in a situation where either Biden or Trump will be our ruler. On the one hand we have a psychopathic supporter of Palestinian genocide, on the other hand we have a psychopathic supporter of Palestinian, Mexican, Black, Gay, Trans, etc genocide.

Think about it. Think about what kind of person

A fucking psychopath, what I'm trying to get you to understand, is that the alternatives to Biden are not "not psychopaths".

A) Psychopath A who wants to kill 2 million

B) Psychopath B who wants to kill 200 million

What is the logical choice, there is no realistic choice C -- if you want to change the world, it must be done outside of this system, but since we're trapped in the system, if you ignore it and leave it to the fascists, everything about your existence will become much harder and more risky.

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