Current Events > smh at people complaining the US dropping food into Palestine.

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esus literally said feed the poor, yet so many people that claim to follow him are upset that we are doing that.

One food drops are not a good way to get food to people. Two our Allies are blocking us from getting food to people the normal way.

So you are against it because it isnt the best way? As you said it is the only way right now.

No we should be able to fucking drive it in without our fucking allies blocking the food trucks with fucking fairs and bouncy houses. You do food drops in places you can't enter. And we can't enter because our " Allies" won't let us.

Is it that or is it that theyve so comprehensively destroyed the infrastructure of Gaza that its not even possible to drive the supplies in anymore? Because Ive heard both.

There are videos of IDF soldiers mockingly setting food packets on fire

Food via air drop is better than no food at all but I guess the holier than thou users here would rather the Palestinians starve.

Damned if you do, damned if you dont.

It's because of deliberate blockades:

Human Rights Watch found in December 2023 that Israeli authorities are using starvation as a weapon of war. Pursuant a policy set out by Israeli officials and carried out by Israeli forces, the Israeli authorities are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/26/israel-not-complying-world-court-order-genocide-case

Plus there were protests by Israeli civilians who held dance parties to block food trucks from getting into Gaza:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/israeli-protesters-aid-gaza/

So you are against it because it isnt the best way? As you said it is the only way right now.

Food via air drop is better than no food at all but I guess the holier than thou users here would rather the Palestinians starve.

There are videos of IDF soldiers mockingly setting food packets on fire

People are complaining about this? What armpit of the internet are you perusing!?!?

Just waiting for the Israeli Iron Dome to shoot down the air drops.

Ppl have literally explained the issue

America isn't going to cut funding to Israel. So the Palestinians either starve or you guys need to accept that air drops is how they're going to be getting food.

So you're okay with genocide?

Trying to make up for all that bomb money we keep giving Israel

unlike you fucks who think bitching and crying is going to amount to something

and what exactly is it you're doing in this topic?

Would that count as an act of war against the US?

Food via air drop is better than no food at all but I guess the holier than thou users here would rather the Palestinians starve.

The thing is if youre caught up with the situation in Gaza then you know this is a very small band-aid on a gaping wound the US has complicity in. Again for example, does this even match the UNRWA funding the US stopped sending? Yes it is objectively good this aid is coming compared to it not coming. Thats not the sum situation though. And I doubt you can point to any serious poster who actually thinks it would be better in the universe where nothing changes except this aid not getting dropped.

You can talk up all the political complexity of Israel you want; the fact remains their invasion engineered this famine, theyre shooting at people going to aid trucks, and the United States vetoes actionable resolutions in the UN Security Council that would move to do something about it. Yes, it is okay to say the US still is not doing enough. Because its true!

As Gaza's hunger crisis worsens, emaciated children seen at hospitals

Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side by side on a bed in a Gaza clinic, their thin, bony legs protruding from diapers that looked too big for them.
This was the scene on Monday at Al-Awda health centre in Rafah, southern Gaza, where nurse Diaa Al-Shaer said children suffering from malnutrition and from a range of diseases were arriving in unprecedented numbers.

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Gaza's Health Ministry said on Sunday that 15 children had died of malnutrition or dehydration at Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, the part of the enclave where the lack of food is most extreme. "The unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher," said World Health Organization spokesperson Christian Lindmeier.

Oh God here we go again with the bullshit that understanding the political complexity of the Israel situation and how our government functions makes someone an advocate for genocide.

Get fucking real, people. Do you take pride in coming off like over-zealous dweebs that think they have the answers to these dilemmas that have existed since Israel became a country?

I'm glad there is some support going to Palestinians. It would obviously be better if the two sides could agree to a ceasefire, just like it would also be great if people quit denying climate change, stopped being bigots, and quit trying to hoard wealth, and all had the intention to work toward world peace.

Oh God here we go again with the bullshit that genocide that be excused by claiming the situation is "complicated". It's made complicated on purpose to get people like you to throw your hands up and just accept the situation as is.

If you read all the comments I posted, you'll realize I'm not saying we have to throw our hands up and do nothing. I just think that users like you and Teddytalks do more to fuck over the obviously preferential political party in this country being able to carry through the next election than you do anything constructive for Palestinians.

If you read all the comments I posted, you'll realize I'm not saying we have to throw our hands up and do nothing. I just think that users like you and Teddytalks do more to fuck over the obviously preferential political party in this country being able to carry through the next election than you do anything constructive for Palestinians.

They don't give a fuck about Palestine or Palestinians.

There are Israeli that made mocking videos when Israel turned off the water and electricity for Gaza.
https://youtu.be/jD7aqKklatU?si=7xzSCtDqfHWcYjFw

No, the preferential political party shoots themselves in the foot constantly, with the latest blunder being full-throated support of genocide, but you're more angry with people who are against genocide than you are about genocide.

Nice projection. Are you sure you aren't a republican?

I'm angry at the misguided people seeming to want to diminish the party's hopes of winning by demanding something that would lose support of the majority swing voters. Then demanding we not support the party if they don't do what's majorly politically unfavorable. You are the people that serve as the gun/bullet shooting the foot.

"HAHA I know you are but what am I?"

I understand. Genocide doesn't matter if it's an inconvenience to """""""""""democracy""""""""""". The mask-off support for genocide shows me that many of the same people who fancy themselves having been outspoken about the Holocaust are actually among those who have absolutely not given a shit had they actually been around back then.