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[–] [email protected] 224 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And then Israel will bomb Gazans as they're rushing to get some food

[–] [email protected] 130 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Using the weapons that the US supplied to Israel

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Wonder what would happen if they went full crazy and shot the planes dropping supplies. they're helping hamas so we shot them down

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

USS Liberty says not much would happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I would say the us would make a lot happen if Israel shot down one of our planes.

But you have a point, this is a little different though.

There is no way to claim they didn’t know this time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the US public is much more aware now than they were in 1967.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

I think Israel is batshit insane enough right now that we might get to find out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The IDF: We're protecting the Palestinians since Hamas is in the air drops!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Absolutely nothing

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Airdropping aid to get around a blockade imposed by the Israel....who depends on our military aid to genocide the Palestinians. This is the height of absurdity

[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (5 children)

See that carrier in the Mediterranean? Park that bitch right off the coast of Gaza and start shipping food and aid straight in, what the fuck is Israel going to do about it

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Bring in some USMC LCACs drive it right on up the beach.

And fucking dare Israel to.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dare them to do what, the US supports them. The US isn't staring anyone down here, they're watching a genocide and selling the gas for the chambers.

Absolute fantasy that they're some saviours here, they enabled this and are getting enough push back to make the barest effort to appease critic in an election year.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That would change overnight if we had personel getting pasted by IDF while dropping off supplies.

One of the big differences between now and USS Liberty is by how much coverage these things get. It would be hard to keep it out of the media.

Besides which, LCACs have been used before in exactly this role. (They’re hovercraft designed to drop off tanks in a beach. IIRC, they were used in Africa?)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not like the US would retaliate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like when This happened and we did nothing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The uss liberty incident didn’t have the real time eyes that the public has in Gaza.

They won’t put troops on the ground because they don’t trust IDF to not fuck that up, but if they did…

there is zero way that it’d be as contained as the Liberty was (we’re all gonna know about it roughly five minutes after it happened,) and no way that Biden won’t be forced to respond- aggressively- when everystarts blasting videos of IDF missiles hitting American marines/sailors/soldiers/airforce.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Good, would have been better a month or two ago, but good.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

It makes sense to play both sides of the field. That way, you always come out on top. Supply the weapons to mangle brown children, then send them the aid they need afterward, GeNiUs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Gotta keep em alive so the IDF soldiers can shoot them, can't waste good target practice!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Just to put into perspective it's something like 2 trucks worth at this point for 2 million people. This is a drop in the ocean. We should be sending 2 trucks a minute.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (5 children)

So the World's super power can't even send food aid through borders.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

The US hasn't given Israel enough money to unlock that feature.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Refreshing to read the comments here from reasonable people against the shocking genocide, nice change from the bloodthirsty savages on worldnews.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Seriously, wtf is up with that subreddit. I got banned for saying maybe it's not ok to shoot people in hospitals.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

That subreddit is a clear psyop.

I was banned FROM REDDIT for reporting calls to violence in that sub.

They said I was abusing the report function.

I had 5 reports total, 3 of which were acted on, 2 reports of content that passed review.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see we have a hamas supporter over here...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Will Biden have American bombs delivered together with the food or will they as usual use Israel to deliver them separatelly?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Wasn't that in the Hunger Games where they dropped explosive toys on children? Something like that, maybe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

More fixed targets for the Israelis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It would be simpler to demand that the Israelis end the blockade, maybe condition the bombs they drop on Palestinians with letting aid trucks in. Have your cake and eat it too. Still more humane than this.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the U.S. will drop food aid into the Gaza Strip, noting that the humanitarian aid flowing into the region for Palestinians is not nearly enough.

“We’re going to pull out every stop we can," Biden said.

Biden also reiterated that the U.S. is trying to push for an immediate cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in order to allow more aid into Gaza.

This is a developing story.


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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

they will airdrop it at the sea and any Palestinians who want to get it will get shot from IOF ships.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember this from the famous Robin Williams stand-up show... when Americans dropped food AND bombs: https://youtu.be/78FG7etXcyc?t=412

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