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humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”
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It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
A few air drops will never be sufficient.
It’s not meant to be sufficient, it is meant to make Biden look like he’s doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
Of course, and we need to call that out at every chance.
Gotta call it out at every chance to delegitimize Biden so Trump wins and starts another insurrection.
You’re right, everyone should accept shit because there’s worse. Fuck ever trying for something better.
In the bipartisan system, voting anything anything other than Democrat is voting for fascism.
In reality, excusing genocide is fascism.
You want a genocide? See what happens if Glorious Leader takes power again. He’ll turn Gaza into the world’s biggest parking lot in two weeks.
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Yep! It is an election year, after all.
it is meant to make Biden look like he’s doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
How does sending arms to Israel prolong the war? It should rather speed up its resolution, I would think?
It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
Two million people took ~4,500 tons a day. The C-54 carried 10 tons, meaning that it only required 450 flights per day. Comments like yours are based on the older C-37 and / or the Easter Push where the Allies did a maximum effort run just to flex on the Soviets.
In 2024 a C-130 Hercules has a max payload of 21 tons, over double the C-54, meaning that required flights would potentially be reduced to 225.
Then you have to consider that Operation Vittles was also delivering COAL, something that the citizens of Gaza probably don’t need.
200 flights a day would do it but that still doesn’t excuse Israel for preventing aid via land routes.
Berlin was an airlift operation, not an air drop. They landed the aircraft at several airports, and directly offloaded cargo to trucks.
AFAIK, Gaza has no operational airports, which greatly complicates the logistics of an airlift mission on the scale of Berlin.
If we are considering this sort of mission, we’re looking at sealift, not airlift. Our historical precedence will be the Mulberry harbors set up to support the Normandy invasion.
Gaza does not have any operational airports, since Israel bombed the control tower at Yasser Arafat airport in 2001 and bulldozed the runway in 2002.
That was USA’s ally. They weren’t being supplied out of goodwill.
isrsel won’t let aid get in by land
Then bomb Israeli military and governing installations as a proper response to committing genocide?
I don’t know if that’s a good idea but I like the sentiment
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Why? It worked pretty well against the Serbians.
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What exactly has Israel done for NATO besides make it the target of terrorist attacks?
Israel is an albatross. We need to drop it like a bad habit.
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So it is preferable for NATO to have an associate that will bomb babies, snipe kids, level hospitals, kill old people for fun, occupy and grab land by force (a total opposite of “defensive pact”) on a continent of the world where NATO countries have no land nor a plausible place as a so called defensive organization. Israel isn’t in NATO and even has no relation to NATO except if you count NATO as combined exploitative effort of the western countries on other continents.
Don’t forget how supporting Israel is literally why Osama Bin Laden carried out the 9/11 attacks.
Supporting Israel only benefits Israelis. The rest of the world loses billions of dollars every year because of israel’s occupation.
The only solution is for them to leave. These problems will not get solved otherwise.
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Doesn’t Gaza have a border with Egypt?
technically this is a border between egypt and israel, and israel will be in control of it
Oh, didn’t know that.
The Palestinian territories are parts of Israel
At least the US pier headed for Gaza is making progress.
Fuck the pier.
Imagine someone was setting your house on fire and another guy named Joe was handing him cash and oil to keep setting fire to your house. Joe told him to stop as he handed the guy more oil, but he didn’t so Joe promised to install a hose in the front lawn of your house that should be ready in about 3 months to help put out some of the fire.
The US needs to stop supplying and protecting Israel first and foremost. Anything else is PR.
Bro, some people just can’t stay on topic.
They always have to resort to some bullshit analogy, lol.
The air drops are mostly political posturing anyways. But its better than nothing.
Falling short
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