Do I have this straight... the US is air-dropping aid bc a country won't stop bombing long enough to let the US in to offer humanitarian aid on the ground, but the US supplied the weapons to the country that won't stop bombing
@inquiline 'Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be used only to buy American weaponry. In reality, it’s not so much aid to Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors, which is one reason some Israelis are cool to it.'
"On Friday, the International Rescue Committee said airdrops “do not and cannot substitute for humanitarian access.” The group urged Israel to reopen border crossings in northern #Gaza and let aid flow in. Airdrops “distract time and effort from proven solutions to help at scale,” the committee said, adding that more than half million people in Gaza “are facing famine conditions.”" -NYT
@inquiline Biden’s made it pretty clear that his support for the bombings is unconditional, so he should be grateful if Netanyahu is so patient with him as to not shoot down our air-drop planes.
If we’re to believe Biden has privately threatened to withdraw support or to stop vetoing ceasefires resolutions in the UN, then what are we to make of the fact that the civilian massacres continue and there has been no change from the US side? If that’s not unconditional, then what would be?
As a rule of thumb, I don't believe rich / powerful people when they claim that they are doing something, or will do something (often timed for when they are retired / out of office), until it is genuinely independently confirmed that they have done what they promised to do.
You are not going mad, it is just par for the course.
@SparkleTea@inquiline
By UN definitions, Hamas are freedom fighters. Mandatory Palestine is the homeland of Palestinians' ancestors, and Zionists have been forcing them out of it. The Zionists are even persecuting the native Christian and Sephardic Jewish Palestinian populations. What makes it even worse is you can't tell them apart genetically. They have a common genetic heritage that goes back over 4000 years.
@inquiline they made most of their own weapons. I don't know where this stuff comes from. Israel is not a weak puppet state; they are a formidable military power in their own right and while the US helped them become that, that isn't the source of most of their weapons at this time.
@ravenonthill@inquiline Israel purchases a lot of weapons from other countries. Their Air Force from the US and Navy from a few European countries. All expensive stuff. Also a lot of ammunition comes from the US.
@railmeat@inquiline Do you have a breakdown? Because when I looked it up, they made something like 85% by cash value. They have a huge munitions industry. I was fairly startled, though I shouldn't have been.
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