cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29824159
Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025
[based on speech given to US Senate]
"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.
Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.
… Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/jan/11/world-has-failed-gaza-in-livestreamed-genocide-south-africas-delegation-says-at-icj-video
This is a lady in a wig talking. This is not an armada of ships announcing their plans in advance, showing up while streaming video, and proving that they cannot get to shore.
Frankly, I doubt a good number of these attempts. Put it on Netflix and you’ll roll right in untouched.
Israel would just say the aid is either hamas or those providing it are hamas, as they’ve done the entire time.
https://press.un.org/en/2025/sc16023.doc.htm
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg300jek94zo
If this is all news/surprising to you I’d recommend doing research before saying the usa is faultless
It’s amazing how people can just fabricate entire concepts on lemmy. The idea that I think the USA is faultless cannot be found anywhere in my history. Sure, you could read a sentence and hallucinate that it means something else—but you’re aware of what you’re doing. Do you use that tactic to make me feel bad? Because it just makes me feel sad for you. It must be some kind of psychosis?
You cant see how that reads as stop being mean tk the usa, they arent doing anything wrong?
Also way to again distract from the genocide and blocking of aid…
I’m just criticizing China because they are ML. And they don’t care about genocide when it doesn’t make the US look bad.
It’s not a distraction, it’s a direct comment to OP.
It probably would have been good to address them by name to avoid confusion.
See that still looks like trying to avoid admitting usa is helping Israel commit a genocide.
While also ignoring all evidence specifically in a thread about how the usa is supporting the genocide.
The US is complicit. For sure. But people who simp for China and want half of the world to be reduced to rubble in its own perfectly acceptable western genocide are disgusting and hypocritical.
It’s perfectly fine to discuss this in this thread, as it is relevant to the broader topic. Have you always stayed on topic? (Checks) nope. You just want to shut me down.
Yes how dare people point out hypocrisy.
How dare people not want their country to continue to bomb children.
Ah so its not at all about whats happening and is just a scenario you’ve come up with. I see there’s really no point continuing when this is all just for you to complain as others have deduced.
China frequently criticizes Israel, and has flown aid directly into Palestine. They’re a non-interventionalist nation, and have their own issues to work through, especially with the trade war ramping up and risks of a potential hot war. You want them to get themselves cut off from the global economy by attacking Israel or something?
No I think the EU should do it, as they are part of NATO. That’s the message that needs to be sent. Which I think won’t ever happen.
You might wanna check for a source on that though. While China has supplied aid in the form of money and supplies which have reached Gaza through Egypt (Rafah crossing). They have not landed a plane or airdropped anything into Gaza or the broader Palestine areas. There were a few social media claims, but they aren’t real.
So you’d rather have EU declare war on the usa?