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Airdropping aid to Gaza would be an absurd and embarrassing gimmick from an impotent administration that persistently refuses to enforce its own laws around military aid and utilize its considerable leverage over Israel. Just a profound policy failure

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    well, Israel has just shown what they will do when Palestinians reach for their airdropped aid, so I guess Biden's now okay with it

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Burning down my neighbors house with everybody locked inside then throwing a handful of saltiness at the smoldering remains so nobody gets mad at me.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Use those big beautiful carrier groups to enforce a no-fly zone over Gaza

    Do it bish

    I dare you

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    If they did this there is a 100% chance that the IDF starts dropping fake food boxes full of bombs to maximize death

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    I mean I guess it's better than not airdropping aid into Gaza but if he were to do something more drastic like actually make Israel stop, his career and to an extent the US might even be salvageable.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      I mean I guess it's better than not airdropping aid into Gaza

      The entire thing is utterly bizarre. Biden has turned into Trump 2.0. When Trump was in office - he got affirmation he was doing the right thing from Fox News. I can imagine Biden saying to his aides "I bet they'll like it on the show tomorrow. They'll like it a lot." And he puffs out his chest. He can't wait for tomorrow when the people on Morning Joe say how much they back his new idea. They'll love this maybe even more than the right-wing border bill.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      It's literally not better.

      At best it will have zero effect because the scale of aid needed would require round the clock airdrops from a neverending stream of the biggest planes we have and at worst Isreal is going to use it like a bait pile to shoot more people.

      And in the meantime you won't be allowed to criticize America because "were the only country directly giving aid to the palestinians"

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    10 months ago

    From the time they were created and used in 1993 until November 2001, [Humanitarian Daily Rations] were packaged with a bright yellow outer plastic covering. This choice of color proved to be problematic in areas of the world where cluster bombs were being used, as the bombs were the exact same shade of yellow. Recipients of the rations sometimes confused the ration package for undetonated cluster bombs, often spotting the bright color from a distance and making an incorrect assumption.

    -Wikipedia, Humanitarian Daily Ration

    They're Baker-Miller pink now (the rations, not the cluster bombs (I hope))

  • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    They misunderstood, Biden already clarified that the "humanitarian aid" is intended to help Israel defend itself from Palestinians. They are suggesting to air-drop bombs.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    10 months ago

    Air drops are inefficient, expensive, dangerous, and only helpful when there are no other delivery options. Air drops are primarily for the Biden administration's benefit - to paper over a massive policy failure.

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