Airdropping aid to Gaza would be an absurd and embarrassing gimmick from an impotent administration that persistently refuses to enforce its own laws around military aid and utilize its considerable leverage over Israel. Just a profound policy failure

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I guess it's better than not airdropping aid into Gaza but if he were to do something more drastic like actually make Israel stop, his career and to an extent the US might even be salvageable.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean I guess it's better than not airdropping aid into Gaza

The entire thing is utterly bizarre. Biden has turned into Trump 2.0. When Trump was in office - he got affirmation he was doing the right thing from Fox News. I can imagine Biden saying to his aides "I bet they'll like it on the show tomorrow. They'll like it a lot." And he puffs out his chest. He can't wait for tomorrow when the people on Morning Joe say how much they back his new idea. They'll love this maybe even more than the right-wing border bill.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's literally not better.

At best it will have zero effect because the scale of aid needed would require round the clock airdrops from a neverending stream of the biggest planes we have and at worst Isreal is going to use it like a bait pile to shoot more people.

And in the meantime you won't be allowed to criticize America because "were the only country directly giving aid to the palestinians"