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The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk

The Biden administration is doing the best they can possibly do. /s

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[-] lps@social.trom.tf 2 points 59 minutes ago

@GlassHalfHopeful stop posting Onion articles ;)

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Headline: US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding

First line of the article: The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk

The headline is intentionally making it seem like the US is asking Israel itself to provide aid to Gaza, no they're just pretending to ask Israel to please stop preventing other people from trying to provide aid to Gaza.

Thanks Associated press, very cool.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 day ago

could risk

So this is meaningless

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 22 hours ago

It's just another message saying stop making it so obvious what you are doing Israel.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago

Idk if it's my hearing or what, but this sounds to me like a dogwhistle. Specifically, like they're not saying that the second the election is over that the US is going to notice Israel is doing a warcrimes 100% run and they can either pump the breaks or the faucet turns off.

Like i said, might just be my hearing tho.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I sure hope this will be the case. It may be the only way out of this mess.

[-] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

"If you don't send more aid to help the people who are only being hurt because we keep supplying you with weapons, we'll stop supplying you with weapons"

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago

Israel is not sending the aid but stopping others from doing it

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago

Delaying until after the election is very telling.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 20 hours ago

Sadly not at all surprising either

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 19 points 23 hours ago

It's honestly insulting that they're still lying to us about not actually egging on Israel behind the scenes. Also telling of which country Biden and Blinken think is more important. They tell the truth to them and lie about what they're saying to us. No party has ever deserved to lose an election more than the genocidal DNC this cycle.

[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I won't pretend to understand the complexity of this horrific situation. I'm angry and fed up with Israel and the West's relationship with Israel. And it confuses the hell out of me when I see things like this exposé from Bob Woodward that just came out: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad fucking guy!” Biden declared privately about the Israeli prime minister to one of his associates in the spring of 2024 as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified, Woodward writes.

“He’s a fucking liar,” Biden said privately of Netanyahu, after Israel went into Rafah, Woodward writes.

“Bibi, what the fuck?” Biden yelled at Netanyahu in July after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hezbollah military commander and three civilians in Beirut, according to Woodward.

“You know the perception of Israel around the world increasingly is that you’re a rogue state, a rogue actor,” Biden said to Netanyahu.

If this is how Biden privately talks about the guy, I have to wonder what's keeping him from being public about it. I understand this is politics, but I want to hope that there's more to it because the United States and other Western nations sure as hell should not be complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians simply because of politics.

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[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 7 points 20 hours ago

It's all layers of lies. Biden has a record of loving a good, dead, brown child going back to him advocating for Israel killing more Lebanese babies before Reagan made them leave. To Israel he says "YES! BLOOD! MORE BLOOD!" And his team "leaks" to our domestic media that "he sure is mad at Netanyahu, if only the President of The United States wasn't a solely ceremonial position that serves at the pleasure of the Israeli Prime Minister... Darn!" You can tell which side he's lying to by his actions.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

I've always felt that we support Israel for the same reason we support Ukraine. They're a friendly military force located in a region of the world where we have enemies. Ukraine helps counter Russia and the same for Israel during the Soviet Union era. Now Israel is a counter to Iran and various terrorist groups.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago

Most of the enemies are there in the Middle East are because of Israel, or other things we've done, like invasions or funding terrorists to get oil.

[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

That's absolutely one of the key reasons the US supports Israel. However, that doesn't mean it can turn a blind eye to what Israel actually does.

The West, especially the United States, has the ability to exert a lot of influence on Israel and yet it seems that they're not trying. Withholding military aid, among other things, goes a long way.

I really wonder what it is I'm missing when it comes to why they won't exert pressure the way it seems they should.

[-] Questy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Don't worry though, American forces will be on the ground with patriot batteries to support the genocide, we just have to say this for the annoying anti-genocide people.

[-] regul@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

We demand to pass out one cheese sandwich for every ten year-old we napalm. And if you don't do that, we will back down immediately!

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Host: US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding.
Contestant: What is a fig leaf?

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

"But first, here's billions more!"

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

#notTheOnion

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Is that a threat to pull the leash?

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