The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be “pulling out every stop” to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
“Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” the US President said, noting “hundreds of trucks” should be entering the enclave.
Biden said the US is “going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses”.
He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an “immediate ceasefire” that would allow additional aid in.
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It’s in Netanyahu’s interest to drag this out until November and do everything he can to make Biden lose to Trump. After that, all he has to do is mention the chonky fascist’s “big manly hands” and he gets to do all the genocide he wants while continuing to keep his corrupt ass out of jail.
Biden needs to wake the fuck up.
Trump will offer Netanyahu the full services of the 6th fleet within days of taking office.
Isn’t funny how they were an arms dealer and NOW, after what feels like total anahilation, do they say enough is enough?
Now tell your UN ambassador to reverse the veto in the security council so UN troops can actually do something about this.
Never going to happen. ✅
mmm “insist”, really a strong word that will surely bring a change.
inb4 the air drop supplies get bombed too since it’ll light up more civilians for Israel to shoot at.
Crappy title. Especially since - https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232636543/un-security-council-gaza-cease-fire-vote
Sadly, this headline seems to be misleading. Checking for additional sources, I can find none that confirm that he actually called for a ceasefire.
According to the Associated Press, he did decry the loss of life in Gaza and announce that the US are about to commence airdrops of humanitarian aid, but at no point did he seem to do what this headline implies.
A Reuters article covering the same conference mentions the possibility of a ceasefire, but this apparently referred to a previous conversation a few days ago.
Unless anyone can find evidence to the contrary, I have to assume that this Newshub article is clickbait.
I found a video of him saying it: https://www.wlbt.com/video/2024/03/01/biden-calls-immediate-cease-fire-gaza/
Thanks, I couldn’t find that part anywhere.
I’m personally not sure that saying “We’re trying to work out … an immediate ceasefire” has nearly the same urgency as as calling for one, but hey at least it’s something.
Well, especially considering he has the leverage to just go “you stop that now or no more arms” and Israel would have no choice but stop that instant, “trying to negotiate a deal” is a particularly weak choice of words.
I’m not sure that Israel actually would have to stop in that circumstance. It’s a wealthy country with one of the world’s biggest arms industries, and it’s not like this is a peer conflict
That’s why I did a double take when I saw the above headline. Biden finally putting his foot down and strong-arming Israel into a ceasefire would be huge.
But alas…
“For at least 6 weeks”
That’s a start at least.
It’s important to note that we can essentially do this because we’re providing aid to Israel. In my mind it’s sort of the best of a horrible situation, but at least with us aiding them, we can insist on certain conditions. Rare Biden W, in my mind.
The engine of this genocide would have ground to halt before tens of thousands of innocent people were doomed to death if Biden hadn’t specifically blocked other UN powers from forming a coalition with overwhelming international leverage to force Israel to stop slaughtering Palestinians.
This isn’t a “glad Biden is in the room to temper a bunch of insane, violent people” situation, Biden specifically allowed this entire situation to happen more than any other international figure outside of Israel.
Biden has an immense amount of blood on his hands.
They need to make the aid conditional. It won’t do much immediately but it is an essential step to stopping the genocide that is currently happening.
Except Netanyahu already told him to go piss in a pot on any deal.
He had to. He should have done it months ago tbh.
The mowing down of 700 people and killing 100 who were trying to get food and water is the last straw. Bibi is toast now. You’ll see a speech in the Knesset soon calling for his ouster and an end to the veto coverage Israel had in the UN.
He had to. He should have done it months ago tbh.
The plan was to do it after gaza has been destroyed
He could have done this in October.
Is it too little too late to save his presidential run?
We’ll see. He has to get the ceasefire first.
(There was another time Israel bombed and aid convoy (waiting till the aid was in a position to be destroyed), back in October, so its not like the first time they’ve done this even in this conflict.)
Honestly if he stops this mess now he should get enough lesser evil votes. Gotta also revert his position on the border and other things, but he still has time to save his campaign.
Or he could do what most of the county wants, and give us meaningful change. That’s what has been drawing voters since Obama, that’s why Trump won in the first place - Hillary is the status quo incarnate
But we’ve been strung along for way too long, he needs to take a stand and make some enemies
I mean yeah but if he was going to do that he wouldn’t be Genocide Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden.
His actually al strategy right now is just so fucking stupid.
It’s like he thinks he’s going to appeal to voters by taking in Trump’s policies.
He’s got no read on the country ATM.
Pretty sure the government has been trying to talk Israel down since things got way out of scope in November. But Bibi wants blood.
Don’t call him Bibi. He deserves no cute nicknames which downplay these atrocities.
Talking him down while sending more weapons in violation of US law?
Pretty sure the government has been trying to talk Israel down since things got way out of scope in November.
Wrong, government backed israel and provided them military aid and weapons.
What world do you live in lol. They had Bidens support since 1970. Pelosi too. They were completely on board until like yesterday, due to pressure from the voter base.
How the hell are you being downvoted? This is objectively true.
Bibi is now Hitler Lite in my opinion. The number of deaths aren’t quite there or the level of cruelty, but the intent and mindset is exactly the same and he could easily get to that cruelty and deathcount if not stopped.
The amount of children being killed in Gaza every day matches that of a big concentration camp at the peak of the Holocaust.
I don’t think there are enough Palestinians on the planet to hit the body count of the holocaust… but that doesn’t mean that Israel’s actions are a lesser evil. Genocide is genocide
Yeah which is why they said the scale is different. They’re talking about the mindset because let’s face it, Israel wants to turn Gaza into Lebensraum. They’ve been pretty clear about that.
That’s exactly what it means, what? Must be cool to live on an island unto yourself. In the real world choices have consequences though.
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The headline I want isn’t asking nicely for a ceasefire, it’s complete disoccupation and recognizing the sovereignity of the Palestinian state.
You know, what people have been saying should happen for 60 years.
How about you shut the fuck up and let us speak so we can whip a piece of shit politician into shape? Your views are well represented all over the media. Everybody knows what you think and that you will be voting for Biden. Great. Now let the people who on the fence have the floor so Biden can get their votes.
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On the fence? Seriously?
This is your 10th removed comment in less than 24 hours. Go outside and take a walk.
Losing a few votes in a primary sure does motivate a guy.
If he wanted to wrap up the election rn, he’d break formal relations with Israel and target IDF forces entering any UN green zones.
I’d also love to see what an F-35 would do to a Merkava
Hamas’ RPGs are already fucking them up, I don’t think it takes an F35.
Well it didn’t require one buttttt a GBU-12 would be pretty spectacular
This is the dumbest thing I will hear all day, by far.
In what delusional world do you think that this would be a reasonabke thing to do?
A world that respects the rights and sovereignty of the Palestinian people, and opposes Israel’s genocide and occupation of Palestine.
Yes, we have to respect the right of a non-state actor to put terrorists in charge and cancel all future elections so they can continue living in a rich culture of stoning infidels to death? No thanks.
“war-torn strip”???
More like, “massacred and obliterated strip”. Not much of a “war” going on here
He’s taking the Michigan numbers seriously. Let’s hope it’s not too little too late.
If we can get a similar result in another swing state, we might see real progress
Ah but he won’t stop military aid from going to Israel will he?
Has Israel received any military aid since December? Last I heard they were facing a pause in weapon transfers from the US until they could confirm the weapons were being used in accordance with international law.
There was a sale that Biden bypassed Congress on Dec 29th or 30th. It still takes time to deliver so probably they still received stuff in February but definitely January so within the last month or so for sure.
That was noted as it was above the billions in military aide given annually that are already budgeted. We can still give them that close to 4 billion in aide without announcing as it is already in the budget so yes, we are probably still in February and March giving them aide as it is in our budget (I don’t like it, but say our as I am a US citizens).
I saw the EO that would set the stage for that action but I didn’t think it was put into effect yet.
Did the recent combined Ukraine/Israel aid bill flounder?
So far it’s passed the Senate, but is being refused a vote in the house. Republicans are attempting to pass an Israel only bill, but Biden has vowed to veto it.
wow don’t be rushing Biden! I’m sure there are still some munitions you have provided Israel that hasn’t been used on children yet!
