The State Department said Israel needs to take more steps to improve the situation among Palestinians. The United States had given the country 30 days to meet aid criteria.
The State Department said on Tuesday that it did not plan to decrease weapons aid to Israel, as a 30-day deadline set by the Biden administration passed without the country substantially improving the humanitarian situation in war-devastated Gaza.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had warned in a letter dated Oct. 13 that the United States would reassess its military aid to Israel if it failed to increase the amount of aid allowed to enter Gaza within 30 days.
The letter said that the humanitarian situation for the two million residents of Gaza was “increasingly dire” and that the amount of aid entering Gaza had fallen by 50 percent since April.
By law, the U.S. government cannot give aid to foreign military forces deemed by the State Department to be committing “gross violations of human rights.”
If Biden doesn’t continue doing this he is not going to get reelected.
Despite full Israeli support for Trump, for some reason the Democrats still continue to support their genocide and violate every law in the book doing so. Maybe this is not about the elections after all.
Maybe this is some conspiracy shit I’m about to say, but maybe we should look at the common denominators here? Fill in the blanks with your topic of choice.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans have a shared interest in __________.
Breathing oxygen and drinking water.
But i was told repeatedly, that Biden/Harris were only toeing the line bc. of the election and once it was over, they would change things?
Turns out the whole ordeal was yet another piss poor maneuver to lie to the people, just like that “aid pier” that ended up being used for IDF instead.
Biden and Harris will do nothing to stop Israel. They made a whole fuzz, now to have this very explicit “red line” not just to stepped over, but rolled over with a bulldozer. There is no red lines for this administration.
They haven proven once and for all, that they are no better than Trump for the Palestinians.
There are already talks to annex the West Bank, they are about to find out how friendly trump is to Muslims, I mean they did hop on stage and endorse him…
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spineless shortsighted blue maga is the reason we are in this position and is going to get worse.
or maybe you are part of dnc whose gravy train got affected.
If one party looses because of their support for AIPAC they’ll move away from AIPAC.
Shocked. Shocked I am that it was just a political performance. Again.
Are we going to get another USAID report directly contradicting the decision again too?
What a damn farce this is.
Am I the only one who thinks that the US is the lapdog of Israel?
Yes you are, because Israel literally cannot exist without US support. It’s a tiny nation, completely surrounded by countries who want to kill every single person that resides in Israel, with the equivalent GDP output of just the state of Massachusetts.
So in your eyes, Israel is the sole victim here? But then how come all those international humanitarian organisations seem to disagree with you and paint completely different pictures on the reality on the ground?
1.) No.
2.) Because the perception of reality is subjective.
If Israel has nothing to hide, why isn’t the international press not allowed in Gaza?
And why do all those international surgeons, nurses, etc. going there all talk about kids with sniper wounds, all aid and humanitarian organisations talk about the dire conditions, etc?
That hasn’t been the case for decades. Israel has a lot of allies in the region (basically the entire anti-Iran coalition). Admitadly, these alliances are largely premised on Israel’s military and intelligence might, which would be diminished without US support; but Israel still has significant in-house capabilities.
As to the actual power dynamics, I agree that the US has a lot of leverage. But that is meaningless if they don’t use it. Moreso now that Israel knows they would only need to wait for the next administration to reverse course if we started using our leverage now.
Are they hoping more bombs help the situation?
