US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding

[Gaugamela]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur. The letter, which restates U.S. policy toward humanitarian aid and arms transfers, was sent amid deteriorating conditions in northern Gaza and an Israeli airstrike on a hospital tent site in central Gaza that killed at least four people and burned others.

A similar letter that Blinken sent to Israeli officials in April led to more humanitarian assistance getting to the Palestinian territory, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Tuesday. But that has not lasted.

“In fact, it’s fallen by over 50% from where it was at its peak,” Miller said at a briefing. Blinken and Austin “thought it was appropriate to make clear to the government of Israel that there are changes that they need to make again, to see that the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is at today.”

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-humanitarian-aid-blinken-austin-887ae388a022215f71309ab6def12103

[enid602]

1. Immediate aid delivery

We need to bring in the aid ourselves immediately.

[Gaugamela]

2. Agreed. We should take custodianship of Gaza and the West Bank and force Israel out.

We have F-22s, they don’t.

[enid602]

3. Natanyahu

And Netanyahu would be out on his can within a week. And his toadies can say they never supported him anyway,

[sarisataka]

4. "Custodianship"

Is that a polite word for "invade"?

What makes you think the US would be welcomed in Gaza and the West Bank?

[Gaugamela]

5. We don't need to invade, we just kick Netanyahu's rancid ass out. And obviously

there would be negotiations with relevant parties. But I don’t doubt that even Hamas would acknowledge that at this point Gaza is a de facto failed state. If we offered to put a pair of vice grips on Netanyahu’s balls, deliver aid, and start reconstruction, Hamas would listen.

Besides, it would be fun to listen to Netanyahu squeal.

[sarisataka]

6. How do we "just kick Netanyahu out" without sending our people in?

Hamas might listen, take what we give then turn on us as well. The US is enemy #2 after Israel.

[Gaugamela]

7. Look, you go to the UN and start negotiations. You cut off arms shipments to Israel.

You work with allies in Europe to set up sanctions against Israel. Obviously, the American public would not support a military intervention. That’s rhetorical bluster on my part because I’m disgusted with what’s going on and Biden’s policy on this is a disgrace.

What’s your solution? Let Israel finish the genocide so Jared Kushner can go in and turn it into La Riviera du Levant and build some tasteful casinos?

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9. Bibi could not have done this without Western complicity and silence

That’s the sad truth

[sarisataka]

10. It is bluster because Biden supports Israel as does Harris, you disagree with them

My solution is for there to be a ceasefire than involves unconditional release of all hostages, living and dead. Israel can hold elections to hopefully remove Likud from power. Control of Gaza can return to the Palestinian authority; let them fight it out with Hamas.

[Gaugamela]

11. Israel has resisted a two state solution from the beginning. They are already starting the ethnic

cleansing of the West Bank. Harris needs to be pressured to change her position. Israel will never change its intentions until it’s forced to.

[aocommunalpunch]

8. Sure. That'll happen.

We are addicted to giving money to Israel. I honestly think they could drop a nuke and we would wag yet another finger. Go, us.