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Biden to announce US will build port on Gaza shore for large-scale aid delivery
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the "genocide joe" people are pretty much the same as the people attacking dr. fauci for pushing vaccines, tbh
Geopolitics isn’t simple. Being against genocides is simple.
America is trying to fix the problem it helped create.
YES
It should never be difficult to do the right thing.
What would Jesus do? Or Martin Luther King? Or Ghandi? Or Nelson Mandela?
Not just Ukrainians. Uyghurs, Syrians, Kurds, Georgians, Quirimli, Chechens… the list goes fucking on.
The most vile shit they introduced into discourse around Gaza is the notion that genocide is a competition. “More people dead in n days in Gaza than in n months in Ukraine” is a statement that achieves only two goals: devalue human suffering and reveal the messenger to be a morally bankrupt psychopath.
A win that Israel will continue to use US weapons against Palestine while we spend 2 months building a dock in order to deliver aid to people that are starving now?
It seems pretty disgusting of you to call this a 'win' and try to deflect criticism against those supporting genocide.
You're the one accosting anyone who points out that Biden could end a lot of the suffering if he'd just stop supplying all the weaponry that's being used on these people. Concern trolling doesn't really work when you're the guy openly supporting genocide.
This diatribe pretty much boils down to you claiming that polling numbers and donors are more important than the lives of those people being slaughtered over there, going as far as to say stopping weapons shipments is "no real gain" because pandering to donors is more important.
I'm sure the men, women, and children who will be vaporized into red mist by the next US weapons shipment would disagree that there's "no real gain" to stopping them. You're a disgusting individual.
Yeah im sure Genocide Joe has perfectly good intentions when he says he plans build a port in a city he directly helped to ethnically cleanse, that just so happens to be within a few nautical miles of two massive oil wells recently discovered within Gaza's territorial waters, which have already been sold off to oil companies.
This is the same country that managed to kill people whilst dropping out of date, non-halal, food onto civilians.
Why are you so desperate to avoid seeing him for what he is? Are you feeling guilty for the horrors you've seen whilst still convincing yourself America is the good guy?
citation needed. do you realise how silly you sound with this claptrap?
Citation needed? Motherfucker was on record being so willing to kill civilians that previous Israeli presidents thought he was too extreme
He directly helped by directly sending Israel billions in arms funding for years leading up to, and after, Israels most recent invasion and genocide of Gaza. He could've pressured Israel to back down at any moment but instead parroted Israeli propaganda such as "mass rapes", "beheaded babies", and the atrocious claims of UNRWA involvement with Hamas, which has in turn lead to them losing hundreds of millions in funding.
If you think any of that is "claptrap" (OK Boomer) consider going back to reddit where you won't get people challenging your genocide apologism.
Muslims are allowed to eat haram if they would otherwise starve, this kind of nitpicking is very elucidatory. Like, would you rather less food be delivered, or delivered with more delay, just to ensure it sticks to rules which are not even applicable to this scenario?
That's true, as well as you can also eat out-of-date food if the alternative is starvation, but it seems fitting that the US is only able to scrounge 38,000 meals (enough for 1.7% of the total population of Gaza to have one meal) while it's gleefully sending billions in military aid to Israel.
Except out of date food carries a risk, and non-halal does not.