Is anyone in the White House understanding how destructive its position towards Israel is for the global reputation and standing of the United States?
The mighty U.S. is demonstrating that it is a hapless and helpless giant unable to control its west-Asian client state.
Biden authorizes aid drops into Gaza, as hostage deal remains in limbo – Washington Post, Mar 1 2024
President Biden on Friday authorized U.S. military airdrops of humanitarian aid to Gaza, reflecting his growing frustration with Israel’s military operations, the dire situation of more than 2 million Palestinians under siege inside the enclave and the failure of the United States and its negotiating partners to forge a deal between Israel and Hamas to stop the fighting.
In addition to the airdrops, which officials said would begin within days, “we’re going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need,” Biden told reporters gathered in the White House for his meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“No excuses, because the truth is aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” he said. “Innocent lives are on the line and children’s’ lives are on the line. … 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.”
How about finally stopping all aid – weapons, munitions, money, diplomatic cover – for Israel? The White House is not even considering that.
What will Israel do if and when the U.S. is dropping aid over Gaza?
It is obvious. Israel will bomb the drop sites as soon as starving Palestinians in Gaza come near to them.
As I have asserted before:
The Zionist occupation forces send food into the northern Gaza strip to then kill starving Palestinians who try to collect it.
Some readers might have thought that this was a claim too strong to make. It was not and is not as it is exactly what has been and is happening day after day:
Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2 – 19:43 UTC · Mar 1, 2024
Before yesterday's "Flour Massacre", the IDF has been shooting indiscriminately for WEEKS at starved Gazans awaiting aid trucks at the exact same spot, virtually every single day!
A 🧵of some of these incidents:
Feb 28: IDF soldiers take potshots at famished desperate Gazans
2\ Feb 27: A child shot in the abdomen by IDF soldiers at the Rasheed street while waiting for aid trucks
Starved Gazans go to that street everyday with the hope of encountering an aid truck coming in, the IDF sprays them with bullets EVERY SINGLE DAY
3\ Feb 26: IDF soldiers fire indiscriminately at starved Gazan crowds at the Rasheed street who came desperately looking for aid trucks
4\ Feb 25: a starved Gazan father shot in the abdomen by IDF soldiers at the Rasheed street while looking for food
His siblings found & rescued him before he bled to death on that street
His father gave this testimony on Feb 26
5\ Feb 24: the Red Crescent retrieves the bodies of two Gazans shot to death by IDF soldiers at the Rasheed street while desperately looking for food
The IDF shoots starving Gazans at that same spot (where the very very few aid trucks come from) every single day!
6\ Feb 23: A starved Gazan goes with his younger brother looking for food at the Rasheed street & returns with his brother in a bag on his back, shot by the IDF
7\ Feb 22: Al-Shifa hospital receives several Gazans wounded or killed by the IDF at the Rasheed street as they went desperately looking for food there
8\ Feb 19: IDF soldiers spraying bullets indiscriminately at starved Gazans at the Rasheed street as people came desperately looking for incoming food trucks
9\ Feb 18: A starved Gazan shot in the head by the IDF at the Rasheed street as he came looking for food.
His body is surrounded by the empty boxes of UN food packages
Again, this has been taking place virtually every single day for weeks in Northern Gaza; deliberate starvation
There is evidence in form of videos and pictures attached to each of the above tweets.
The killing of starving people why to collect flour and other food stuff for their loved ones is not the only abomination. All aid is controlled by Israel before it goes in. The most needed items are not being allowed at all:
CNN has [..] reviewed documents compiled by major participants in the humanitarian operation that list the items most frequently rejected by the Israelis. These include anesthetics and anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, ventilators and water filtration systems.
Other items that have ended up in bureaucratic limbo include dates, sleeping bags, medicines to treat cancer, water purification tablets and maternity kits.
The Zionist concentration camp for Palestinians of Gaza has become an extermination camp.
There are thus sound reasons to believe that Israel will bomb the drop sites for U.S. aid as soon as Palestinians in Gaza come near to them.
And Joe Biden will do what after that?