A private letter from Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin to Benjamin Netanyahu gives Israel 30 days to act

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza.

A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.

The four-page missive, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.

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Edit: changed from NYT to Guardian. Same story, no paywall.

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    An anti missile missile is still a missile. If it has a rocket engine, a payload and some sort of guidance system (as opposed to rockets) it is called a missile. And generally if it knows where it is by knowing where it isn’t you have a modern missile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ

      • GrymEdm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        14 hours ago

        Strawman much? Care to explain how you arrived at that accusation of dehumanization based on what was written about the technical details of missiles?