The US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using existing roads and entry points.
  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3011·
    8 months ago

    So, why don’t we wait a couple of weeks and see if it is a distraction, or not? The US is currently air dropping and attempting to truck food in but it is not enough, hence the pier. Don’t think for one minute Putin’s trolls aren’t trying to capitalize on this.

    • ElCanut@jlai.luOPEnglish
      1511·
      8 months ago

      Are you accusing Doctors without borders of being Putin’s trolls ? Please read the article, the implication of the US in this conflict is total, and it is abnormal that we can’t criticize it without being accused of working for the Kremlin.

      Maybe the US dual party system has made people think that you’re either for Biden or Putin, but I assure you it’s perfectly normal to endorse neither of them. The fact that I’m anti-Putin does not mean I can’t criticize the US position, especially when internationally recognized experts (like doctors without borders, Amnesty international, UN,…) criticize it

      • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think anyone is saying criticism/scepticism is bad in any way. I also don’t think most are just blindly taking what a politician/government says as fact.

        I take these actions with a grain of salt just like most and assume nothing Biden or the government does is altruistic. I also have a hard time believing it’s all of nefarious intentions.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1310·
      8 months ago

      When have America attempted food truck aid?

      So, why don’t we wait a couple of weeks

      Good idea tell the Palestinians to live on photosynthesis for two months while Biden buys time for Netanyahu to Genocide more.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      31·
      8 months ago

      Uh… People are dying now. Now it’s infants and children, soon it’ll be more children (the infants will’ve all died) and old people, then the adults will be next. And we’re talking actual starvation; people have been dying of malnutrition-induced illness for some time now. By the time those “couple of weeks” pass half of Gaza will be dead.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
    152·
    8 months ago

    This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.

    Exactly. The pier is unnecessary. As an additional supplement, sure. But as the primary means to addresses the crisis… this is a poor solution.

    If the plight of Gazan civilians mattered to the US government, then this is not the way. There’s much more direct and timely solutions that are intentionally being bypassed.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    8 months ago

    "The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege.** The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border**. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies.** This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem.** Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.

    In the past months, the US has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire—which is the only way to ensure a real scale up in emergency assistance. We reiterate our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to stop the killing of thousands more civilians and allow for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid."