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    Is he also going to stop shipping weapons to Israel? Otherwise it makes no fucking sense.

    • circuitfarmer
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      Nah see, the pier can be used for both. Synergy.

    • @NineMileTower
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      It’s actually a brilliant economic play. Instead of only arming Isreal, we should just arm both sides and get that CASH.

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        I don’t think they are giving/selling weapons to Gaza Strip…

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          Pushing some agenda is the only benefit it could get is getting by supporting either side, they’re both unprofitable; one’s poor and the other only accepts weapon donations.

          Edit: Getting oil from naval wells also makes some sense as an explanation.

    • @[email protected]
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      My first thought also. Developing the infrastructure to exploit natural resources under the cover of providing humanitarian aid, while simultaneously supplying the weapons that create the need for humanitarian aid.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s not like that happened in every* other Arab nation.

        *: You could argue some aren’t. For most of them natural resources were exploited using the corrupted puppets making all of the Arab nations’ governments.

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      I’m sorry, did they just say Palestinian economy? There’s no Newspeak that’s too on the nose for these people.

    • Christian
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      18 months ago

      This is a disgustingly cynical interpretation and I really wish it wasn’t realistic.

  • @filister
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    If only Israel was allowing sufficient aid in Gaza that wouldn’t be necessary.

    • @TIMMAY
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      I agree, but you cant change the past, and this seems like a good step in the right direction for the future. We cant afford to look our gift horses in the mouths (this idiom doesnt work very well when pluralized)

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    It’s a stupid gimmick - just like air drops. If the US wanted it could go and open the border crossings for aid. Hundreds of lorries a day are required. Not doing that reveals the truth - starving mainly innocent Palestinians.

    • @Noodle07
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      Mainly innocent? Dude those babies are all hamas!

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    I don’t have the meme handy, but I’m picturing the Mac from Always Sunny pic saying “I’m playing both sides, so I always come out on top.”

    With a US flag over Mac’s face.

    • @TokenBoomer
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      Guys, don’t you know a bitchslap has to be approved by Congress? /s

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      It’s especially unconscionable because the limit before needing to seek congressional authorisation was raised and transactions to Israel were deliberately kept below the reporting limit, so the headline should read “Biden Has Deceptively Snuck Through 100+ Arms Sales to Israel in Just Five Months”.

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    I wonder what the Israeli contingency plan is if the US were to revoke military aid?

    It’s a major national security concern for them, and a lot of military leaders with clout are dependent on that aid. They must have some sort of PR / Psyop operation ready to drop in such an event.

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    The point here is government spending, especially with private partnership, not solving any problem. Classic corruption.

  • @[email protected]
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    I think it is a positive sign - although obviously hypocritical when they are providing lethal aid to the Israeli government while it’s controlled by genocidal extremist parties like Likud and Mafdal-RZ, who are using it to create the very situation for Palestinian civilians in the first place.

    The bombing of civilian homes and infrastructure, combined with shootings and so on has already killed or wounded about 2% of the population in only 5 months. However, a famine could kill far faster than that; to avoid that, the IDF would only need to not interfere with the distribution of aid, allowing NGOs to provide it. Instead, they have interfered with the entry of aid at the Egyptian-Palestinian border, bombed places where aid is being distributed, and shot at civilians seeking aid on the street with machine guns.

    So anything that makes that 2% of casualties not grow to 80%, for example, and frustrates the plans of Israel’s far right to depopulate Gaza of Arabs is a good start, but not really enough.

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      That’s assuming the US’s intentions are good, and that this isn’t just for show.

      do you believe them? I don’t, never will.

  • @Linkerbaan
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    Emergency pier that will take two months to build…

  • @harderian729
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    Posturing for the upcoming election.

    I’m voting for Trump, just because I’m sick of these games.