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?