Biden says U.S. will begin airdropping aid into Gaza in the coming days

"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, because the truth is aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough now — it's nowhere nearly enough," he said, adding that "innocent lives are on the line and children's lives are on the line."

"We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, not just several. And I won't stand by, we won't let up and we're... trying to pull out every stop we can to get more assistance in," he said. He also reiterated his administration's priority to get a hostage deal that would include at least six-week ceasefire "to allow the surge of aid to the entire Gaza Strip, not just the south."

"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, because the truth is aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough now — it's nowhere nearly enough," he said, adding that "innocent lives are on the line and children's lives are on the line."

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    can't wait for October when recordings or transcripts of Biden/Netanyahu calls and meetings get leaked by Israel and prove he's been a gleeful enabler and participant the whole time and never once tried any pushback

    • plinky [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      At least dems would on the right side of history then, instead of being simps

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      Originally it was a couple tweets. Then I mashed them together and I decided I'd remove the Twitter stuff. After that I realized I was going to get a bunch of jokes due to how the first tweet started "Biden strongly criticizes the Israeli government: ". I removed that to be just "Biden: ".

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

      That would be hilarious. The IDF could tell a joke and put out a terse one sentence statement to poke Biden in the eye: "We thought it was Hamas."

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      With the amazing quality of western military industrial products they could pass it off as an accident

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      For too long has the Navy borne the cost of false flag incidents. Remember the Maine, the Liberty, having to pretend we were scared of literally nothing in Tonkin? Enough! Time for the USAF to take one for the team.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    I watched a man carry the remains of his child in a plastic shopping bag

    • Raebxeh
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, the amount of child corpses I’ve seen in the past couple days alone is insane

  • robinn_IV
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    5 months ago

    The pressure mild discomfort inflicted on Biden has made him give up on U.S. support for Israeli crimes politely ask Israel to please maybe let some more food in but if the IDF fires into the crowd of hungry people trying to get said food that's fine.

  • AsLeftAsTheyCome [they/them, any]
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    5 months ago

    And I won’t stand by, we won’t let up

    Of course not, you’re an active aggressor. This isn’t a promise this is a threat.

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Tough on zionists in the same way that he's been tough on american corporate profiteering

  • Raebxeh
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    5 months ago

    Getting more aid trucks in doesn’t matter if the IDF just guns down everyone waiting in line to receive the aid. What a fucking joke.