The U.S. will not change its policy on arms transfers to Israel even though the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains dire, the State Department said Tuesday, the deadline the White House set for Israel to ramp up access to aid in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters the decision came as “Israel has taken a number of steps” outlined in a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Israeli counterparts last month. “We continue to be in discussion with Israel about the steps they took and other steps they need to take,” he said.
An average of just over 30 trucks a day have been let into Gaza in recent weeks, representing “just over six percent of the daily needs,” according to Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
Remember when Biden’s admin said they’d cut off aid if Israel didn’t let aid into gaza and stop killing humanitarian workers, but set the deadline for just after the election?
This proves it was a cynical ploy and they never intended to limit their support of Israel’s genocide.
Just shows that the democrats would rather lose to trump than to stop pouring billions into the military industrial complex.
There was/is no downside for the democrats to have ended the genicide in Palestine. Zionest and evangelical Christians were never going to vote blue anyways. So why give them what they want when they knew they would losemillions of Arab, Muslim, and left members of their base?
Literally many Arab, Muslim, and left organizations in swing states told DNC that they would not vote for them if they didn’t end the genicide. And the DNC and Neo-Liberals of the party laughed in their faces. Whelp. Here we are.
Is asking for no genicide by anyone really too much to ask for? Even more so when we literally have the power to stop it?
The only logical explanation is that they want the genocide. Nothing else makes sense at this point.
The logical answer is that Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, John Fetterman, Joe Biden and many, many, many other Democratic Party top brass and elected representatives, agree with this genocide and wish for nothing more than for the earth to swallow up the million children in Gaza (well, it used to be a million) so that the Jewish state can be more secure.
The logical answer is that Christian dispensationalism, Jewish supremacism (promulgated openly in the past by liberal heroes like Churchill) and deep disdain for Muslims and Arabs are baked into this old guard.
The logical answer is that the US political system is a plaything of special interests and that Christian fundamentalists, Israeli lobbyists and Jewish nationalists have successfully thwarted attempts by America’s moral majority to hold Israel accountable.
This is what I’ve been trying to get across to the people screeching about anyone who didn’t vote versus voting for Harris (I voted for Harris, just fyi, begrudgingly).
Voters were vocally and publically opposed to the genocide in Palestine being aided by the Biden admin, but the DNC would not back down, making these half-ass “Well, if Israel crossed the fifth line we drew, ooh, they’re really in for it this time! That next phone call, I’m gonna use the F word!”
Voters were making their concerns and their internal conflict known online, and they were either outright attacked for being a Trump supporter (y’know, instead of a human being trying to weigh which lives matter more in their voting decision). Or, you were told that we just had to bite the bullet “one more time,” and then this time we’ll be able to get the party to listen to us, and start to move in progressive directions.
But when you pointed out that there was no way to know the DNC would actually listen based on 2016 and 2020, and the fact the longer the campaign went on the further right Harris and her policies shifted… You were dismissed and screamed at for being a Trump supporter.
And this just proves to me that the DNC was never, has never, and will never compromise with their voting base on anything. Period. Even now, what are DNC pundits going on the news and saying? "The voters failed us, the DNC went too far left this election, the voters are tired of “wOkE” policies, I’ve even heard two Democratic politicians throw trans people under the bus.
The party of supposed LGBTQ+ lost an election and immediately turned on one of the most marginalized groups of their voting base.
But no, no, they’ll totally listen to us after we get them elected and give them over a billion dollars in campaign money. 🙄