cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29824159

Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025

[based on speech given to US Senate]

"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.

Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.

… Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "

  • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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    -411 months ago

    Has anyone tried? A big convoy full of supplies and white flags? Just enter through Rafah and bypass Israel. Heck the beach is pretty big.

    But it’s gonna be hard to find a country who likes Muslims enough.

    • goferking (he/him)
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      611 months ago

      Do you think that hasn’t been tried yet?

      Israel has shot, bombed, and attacked those flying white flags (including their own citizens), the red cross, medics, hospitals, those with press badges and identification, the un, and most recently an aid ship in the Mediterranean.

      • Maeve
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        711 months ago

        They got what they wanted. They derailed the thread and made it about themselves, rather than the actual victims of genocide the post referenced.

        • goferking (he/him)
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          311 months ago

          I’m still waiting for/half expecting them to soon say Israel is doing nothing wrong its everyone else’s fault

          • Maeve
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            211 months ago

            Maybe. Either way, they seem genuinely distressed like the emotions have mastered them, rather than the other way around and I get that because I’ve been there. I see it a lot on Lemmy and IRL. Sometimes we just need to get away from media and people, spend time being still, silencing the chaos, doing some deep self-Reflexion, and doing whatever real self-care (rather than distraction /doom scrolling) is within our means. Can you imagine if a few heads of state did that for a weekend?! We’d be closer to world peace than we’ve been in a century.

            • goferking (he/him)
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              011 months ago

              Seems like a break didnt help them.

              Definitely going hard on doom scrolling and everyone is out against me

          • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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            -311 months ago

            This is a lady in a wig talking. This is not an armada of ships announcing their plans in advance, showing up while streaming video, and proving that they cannot get to shore.

            Frankly, I doubt a good number of these attempts. Put it on Netflix and you’ll roll right in untouched.

              • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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                -411 months ago

                It’s amazing how people can just fabricate entire concepts on lemmy. The idea that I think the USA is faultless cannot be found anywhere in my history. Sure, you could read a sentence and hallucinate that it means something else—but you’re aware of what you’re doing. Do you use that tactic to make me feel bad? Because it just makes me feel sad for you. It must be some kind of psychosis?

                • goferking (he/him)
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                  211 months ago

                  Literally every country on earth is doing nothing. Where is your precious China, ML? Why don’t you harp about that? Oh right, it’s because you don’t actually care about Gaza or genocide.

                  You cant see how that reads as stop being mean tk the usa, they arent doing anything wrong?

                  Also way to again distract from the genocide and blocking of aid…

                  • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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                    -111 months ago

                    I’m just criticizing China because they are ML. And they don’t care about genocide when it doesn’t make the US look bad.

                    It’s not a distraction, it’s a direct comment to OP.

                    It probably would have been good to address them by name to avoid confusion.

    • @rasakaf679@lemmy.ml
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      011 months ago

      Why won’t the muslim majority country provide aid? And take in refugees? Why only US is blamed for it?