Friday 8 March 2024

New Gaza Port The Least Biden Can Do

American President Biden has announced plans for the US military establish a port on the Gaza coast to unload aid which puts America in the bizarre position of both funding the Israeli genocide and providing the aid for the victims.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of the massacre of over 100 Palestinians, shot by Israeli forces as they congregated around a convoy of aid trucks in Gaza City last week although Israel deny shooting them although the vast majority of victims who turned up at Gaza Health facilities had bullet wounds.
The decision to help the Palestinians seems to be a political gesture as polls in America seem to show that Biden is massively losing votes over his backing of the Israel's disproportionate response to the October Hamas attacks and this is him looking to be doing something as the condemnation of Israel grows.
The ActionAid Charity said:'It’s going to take weeks to set up and we are talking about a population that is starving now. We have already seen children dying of hunger' so it is worth noting that the 'new' port is required because Israel refuse to open the crossings in Northern Gaza because they are using them to
 move its military in and out of Gaza and are refusing to allow nations to deliver aid to their own ports just to the North of Gaza which could then be driven down to the starving millions.
I don't know if Biden is expecting applause for what he is doing but that would be like thanking an arsonist for lending you a tent after they have burnt your house down with your family inside it which is almost literally what they are doing after refusing to back a ceasefire at the UN and providing Israel with the funds and the means to butcher an entire population.

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