• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah that’s too long unfortunately. Hunger and lack of medical care are going to kill so many that maybe it was part of the plan all along to make it easier to deny

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    8 months ago

    This was a bad idea along with the airdrops. All because Biden is unwilling to pressure Netanyahu publicly or set any red lines. So now he’s trying to scramble to give aid to one and bombs to another rather than do the simpler move of reigning one side in and allowing them to send in aid. International law says that Israel is required to allow this aid in or help, and they are doing neither.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah this seems crazy. We should just require Israel to set forth and protect a humanitarian corridor. We have a ton of leverage against Israel.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Because they are Muslim and brown. The US doesn’t have a stellar reputation of being kind to brown people. So no wonder we are quicker providing bombs for Israel then we are on giving aid to Gaza.

      If not voting Biden didn’t give us Trump (who be 1000% worse) then I would do anything I could to make sure Biden loses in November. But nope I live here and have to hold my nose and vote Biden even though he a terrible human and fucking bad president.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    That’s still pretty quick if it’s capable of supporting large trucks and long enough to allow cargo ships to dock next to it. It’s probably a week or so to get the materials to construct it on site.

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    8 months ago

    Could those 1000 troops not just use the Rafah crossing to bring things directly in? Israel would be fucking daft to fire on US troops distributing aid.

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    8 months ago

    2 months? There HAS to be a better and faster way to build this. Seriously, just interlinking floating pre-made shit. It’s like Lego.

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    8 months ago

    2 months seems like a reasonable timeline for a large infrastructure project halfway across the earth from the us. ofc its a horrible situation and they could save a lot more lives if they could just truck aid in.

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      8 months ago

      They can just truck aid in, but they won’t because Biden either is spineless or he just doesn’t care about the babies dying of hunger.