US orders Israel to open aid routes and it does – so this could have happened any time
The United States government has given the world ample evidence that it is as responsible for the genocide and famine in Gaza as Israel – because it could have changed Israel’s behaviour at any time.
What a shame that President Biden never thought to suggest such a thing in the past six months. He could have avoided his nickname, “Genocide Joe”.
So the following is probably not a case of “better late than never”:
Israel were just forced to open Erez and Ashdod crossings for aid into Gaza. Fact that Israel were able to and chose not to proves further that they have consciously and deliberately starved Gaza, many to death. This will be added to the litany of war crimes at a future tribunal.
— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) April 5, 2024
Wait so this means that at any point in the last six months, Israel could have opened more aid routes and Biden could have gotten them to, but both were choosing not to. pic.twitter.com/oyDoG4TSsc
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) April 5, 2024
"I think it tells us that a lot of the famine [&] suffering in Gaza could have been ameliorated much earlier on… if the US had wanted to end this famine sooner they would have"@marcowenjones on the US telling Israel to open more crossings & Israel then opening more crossings pic.twitter.com/PBCES7Iuyg
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 5, 2024
4. It is good that Biden finally exercised his obvious leverage.
5. It is unforgivable that it took this long for him to do so.
6. Looking forward, a full spectrum humanitarian effort remains necessary to slow and reverse the momentum of famine. That requires a ceasefire. 2/2— Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) April 5, 2024
So there you have it.
The United States and Israel are partners in this enormous war crime: genocide. And, since the US is the most powerful military nation on the planet at the moment, nobody can force them to stop or bring them to justice afterwards.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so:
.@marcowenjones: "The only thing that's going to stop Netanyahu is the US withdrawing military supplies" pic.twitter.com/UhA4nlIMC6
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) April 5, 2024
What’s the solution?
Public opinion? It might be possible to shame the US government by informing its people – but how do you persuade those people that their support for Israel is wrong when their mass media are telling them it isn’t – at high volume, all the time?
Sanctions? That would interfere with profit, possibly harming the economy of any country trying it.
What, then?
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I would guess that the conversation went something like…..
“Get some Aid moving into Gaza NOW!… otherwise they may start asking why our Gas Pipeline Infrastructure posing as an Aid Jetty is taking so long, then we won’t be able to steal the Palestinian Gas as Planned”
(World Central Kitchen built a Jetty in days)
For Context,,,
https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/