Replies to post #526960 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

I never once said that I Israel doesn't have a right to exist and I'm pretty sure nobody else here has said that either. You are always the one expanding that notion, taking what some idiots on college campuses were doing and immediately implanting it to expand to the rest of us on a political scale.

Of course nobody wants to see the atrocities that have been carried out by that nation state but it has happened and there's no denying that.

I always tried to distance myself from that argument for that very reason. I just really don't like to see people suffering from, what in my mind, was a completely avoidable situation and I don't know who to blame or care to find out.

[arizona1]

I'm not defending, it's not a binary choice.

You've NEVER ONCE condemned Israel for the genocide they've created and their starvation of the Palestinian people. You're complicit.

Israel lets limited aid into Gaza, as Netanyahu says allies can't tolerate "images of mass famine"

A soaring death toll in the Gaza Strip and an increasingly vocal outcry over near-famine conditions in the Palestinian territory are piling pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a negotiated ceasefire with Hamas and drop his country's near-total blockade of the enclave. Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said Tuesday that at least 87 people were killed by Israeli military strikes over the last 24 hours alone.

The Israel Defense Forces have ramped up operations in Gaza over the last week, killing hundreds of people, many of them women and children, in what Netanyahu's government insists is legitimate self-defense and aimed entirely at securing the return of 58 hostages still held by Hamas and its allies in Gaza, and destroying the group. Israel blames Hamas — long designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., Israel and the European Union — for all casualties in Gaza, accusing the group of operating in and around civilian infrastructure.

On Monday, for the first time in two and a half months, Netanyahu permitted a handful of trucks carrying aid to enter Gaza. He said he had been pressured into easing the total blockade by allies who could not tolerate "images of mass famine."



There were unconfirmed reports on Tuesday that as many as 100 trucks had been allowed to cross the Gaza border. But the United Nations' World Food Program said this week that a few trucks would be just a drop in the bucket given the vast and urgent need for food in Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinians have been trapped for more than two years of blistering war.

Thousands of trucks have been lined up for weeks just across the Gaza border, waiting to cross in. No food, fresh water or medicine had entered the territory for nearly 80 days under the Israeli blockade. Hunger is so rife that full-blown famine is once again stalking Gaza's population, according to the WFP's director for the Palestinian territories, Antoine Renard, who's just returned from the enclave.

"You have around an estimated 14,000 children that I know are facing what we call severe acute malnutrition," he told CBS News on Monday, meaning those children could die without rapid intervention. "We always wait for when 'famine' is on. But when famine is on, it's already too late. That will be a failure of all the international community."


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-war-netanyahu-faces-sanctions-threat-palestinians-starvation/