And even then...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-gaza-humanitarian-aid-b2569354.html

The humanitarian situation, especially in the north, is heartbreaking and outrageous. No aid for over 2 weeks, not one truck allowed in while Israel was conducting it's renewed aerial and ground assaults.

It's only since the stern letter from the US. a few days ago threatening consequences that Israel allowed 30 trucks in the next day. The letter stated at least 10 times that amount should go in every day. Hope it's picked up now. I can't imagine not eating for over 2 weeks, can you?

"It's not Israels fault, its all the criminals in Gaza." Interesting take isn't it? As if Israel is powerless against some "criminals". You broke it you fix it.

Link to tweet

Haven't heard it happen outside of the Hamas-controlled territories.

But yeah, let's pretend it never happened.

Aided and abetted by the state you are so vigorously defending.

Something could be said about those things too. Actually, a lot could be said.

Suffice for now to point out the vast difference between starving and desparate "criminal elements" and well-fed and hideous religious zealots enjoying the protection of their criminal state while committing their hideous crimes.

I don't want to argue that the radical settlers are destroying (they are stealing none of it) the food that would otherwise go to the criminal elements who DO steal food from the starving, which is bad enough, but "desparate "criminal elements" ?????

Unless you meant to call them disparate, which would have met with my agreement, those thugs are neither desperate nor starving. They control Gaza's black market. Not only do they steal from starving palestinians and stuff themselves with stolen food, they sell the leftovers at huge, unaffordable to most, markups to the people they just robbed.

Speaking of well fed and hideous religious zealots!

If I didn't know any better, I would have sworn that you are mocking yourself.

I would put you on ignore again except for your annoying habit of responding to my posts when you know I won't see them in your usual disparaging and disingenuous way.

Enjoy your "witty" repartee all by yourself.

Perhaps one day you will put your talents to something other than defending the starvation and genocide of Palestinians.

made it in defense of starving Palestinians. I certainly didn't mean to insult anyone other than the aforementioned well fed and hideous religious zealots, who were clearly not among the starving.

Or was it my reference to criminal elements who steal food from the starving that you found insulting?

What offended you more, my mention that they steal from starving Palestinians, or that they sell the leftovers at huge, unaffordable to most, markups to the people they just robbed?

It couldn't possibly be that you took offense to me not blaming Israel for their crimes, could it?

And please don't put me on ignore! Sometimes I surprise myself and annoyingly post responses without having a single concern about you not seeing them. And every once in a blue moon I even post stuff that has nothing to do with you at all.

Armed gangs and criminal elements or not, they are a smokescreen as is this o/p.

You can also compare it to what my wiggling out consists of.

Go ahead, read it... I am not that good at wiggling out, am I?

I can use more lessons in wiggling out from people who are really good at it. Who knows, maybe some day they will pay off for me.

I do see what you mean.

Of course I totally disagree with your views on just about everything in I/P, but that is another matter.

It would be wrong of me to accuse you of something on second reading it's clear you did not do.

And I appreciate your honesty with regards to what happened while you were on ignore.

Let's call it a night now. Tomorrow is another day!

that might indicate the criminal gangs in Gaza stopped looting these trucks?

And what exactly does your link to the article have to do with the free-form commentary you followed it with? It had nothing to do with the content of the article, did it?

The link I provided had a date. Yours didn't.

I know you're a stickler for evidence so I helpfully provided it.

You are not correct. The link I provided to the Independent shows a date of June 26, as I said.

I was responding to the o/p which linked to a nearly 4 month-old article.

You confused that somehow with the subsequent June 2 post on X I linked to showing the crazy settlers destroying aid for starving Palestinians.

With that in mind, allow me to update you on the original story:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/white-house-says-armed-gangs-blocking-aid-going-into-southern-gaza/

White House says armed gangs blocking aid going into southern Gaza

Dated 21 October 2024, 7:57 pm


Knock yourself out. It will definitively address your urge to deflect. I hope you will take it to heart... just kidding, I have no such hope.

Sad.

People coming up with excuses for the intentional starvation of children. Clinging to absurdities, even victim-blaming, in order to try to justify this heinous crime of using starvation of civilians to achieve military and political goals.

I have no hope either. Not for them.

is coming up with "excuses for the deliberate starvation of children"?

Are you accusing the White House press secretary and the White House national security advisor of "clinging to absurdities" and "victim-blaming"?

They both speak for our Democratic President's administration.

As if you don't know where the U.S. is getting it's information from.

Is it your assumption that the Biden administration, including the Department of State and the National Security Council, are not sourcing this information responsibly?

Twice today, during on the record press availabilities, the Biden administration made it clear that

President Biden is walking a tightrope, you also know that.

The reality is much different. Two U.S. agencies have found Israel is indeed obstructing aid. It's reached such a critical point, the threat of people dying is so great, that the U.S. a few days ago made the first threat of consequences directly to Israel. That in itself should tell you it's bad and who the U.S. thinks is responsible.

If after reading the link you still want to persist with your smokescreen and obfuscation of the truth, that's fine with me. But I will not waste my time further on any exchanges with you. Same goes for any other posters.

Bolding mine:

and "obfuscation" and that both I and the OP "know that"?

Sorry, but a report published last month about a rejected assessment made last spring does not change the fact that the White House stated twice YESTERDAY that

The letter was leaked.

The U.S. is in a though situation.

Blinken's letter itself mentions "lawlessness and looting". That it is happening should not surprise anyone.

It's a consequence though, and not the cause.

It's a smokescreen used by Israel to lay blame elsewhere and evade it's own responsibility. Akin to blaming the horses for running away after you've opened the barn door. Totally ignoring cause and effect.

In case you missed it the first time:

“We are particularly concerned that recent actions by the Israeli government – including halting commercial imports, denying or impeding nearly 90 percent of humanitarian movements between northern and southern Gaza in September, continuing burdensome and excessive dual-use restrictions, and instituting new vetting and onerous liability and customs requirements for humanitarian staff and shipments – together with increased lawlessness and looting – are contributing to an accelerated deterioration in the conditions in Gaza,”

I am beginning to detect a pattern here.

...Ok, I detected that pattern long ago. I am just surprised how often you fall back on it.

No further posts from me. I've said what I needed to.

They are starving themselves.

It's not Israel not letting in aid as usual, in order to starve the Palestinians out of the North. Nope. It's Palestinian ARMED GANGS! So vicious and well-armed that the poor overwhelmed and under-armed IDF have no choice but to stand back and allow it to happen. Apparently Israel has no manpower to spare to guard the trucks, nor security personnel. So it's not their fault!

This is the kind of garbage Israel feeds the U.S.

And the world shakes its head in disbelief and disgust.

that Joe Biden's White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby referenced at his press conference?

Lawlessness and looting has been turned into "armed gangs and criminal groups". Sounds so much better if you want to ignore root causes.

Why is there lawlessness and looting? Geez, it's such a mystery.

The destruction of UNRWA and its distribution centes, the outright banning of its presence in the north, the banning of commercial imports and the systematic slowing down of humanitarian aid through the use of a byzantine labyrinth of absurd rules and regulations, the refusal to provide military escorts for aid trucks and a protected humanitarian corridor ....on and on...

But let's deflect to the foretold-consequences of those actions and policies, especially if those actions are committed by BAD PALESTINIANS, shall we?

I'm done with all Israel's apologists and enablers.

Conflating Palestinians with armed gangs and criminal groups is frankly disgusting.