Comment on ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 week agoHamas hijack aid and are complaining now that IDF wants to control the distribution to prevent this.
If the Israeli’s had shown an ounce of good faith actions throughout this whole horrible period, then maybe this demand wpuld be less critically read.
But as it stands they havr constricted supply of food, electricity and everything else as mush as they can, restricted the water supply to, i think, one desal plant, don’t let journalists (even yarget them) in for a less bias appraisal of whats going on, continually attack the UN and International court for their calls for investigations, attack medical workers, as well as killing, through, bombs or other means, the Palestinians en-masse no matter their gender, age, or relation to their ao called enemy Hamas.
Multiple internal syrveys of Israeli public opinion paint a putrid picture of the overall societies vision for the ongoing survival of the Palestinian people.
And so, after all of this, the international community is supposed to trust the Israelis will act in good faith and fair dealing in their distribution of aid and resources?
I think not.
sqgl@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Luckily the distribution seems to be going well though. That is a good thing, yes?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
It’s nested right wing tabloid dross
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 week ago
No, what Israel and The US are doing is catastrophically bad. It is eaxctly what my comment warned against.
Israel cannot be trusted to deliver anything for the Palestinians in good faith. What happens as soon as the world’s eyes shift.
The Israeli’s cannot be trusted to be fair minded on this issue for the same reason victims of rape cannot be allowed to name the sentence of their rapist. An impartial party that can as genuinely as possible guarantee the actual aid delivery in the amounts needed.
I think that video is shot like its a PR stunt, but it doesn’t even matter if its real, fake, a PR stunt, or the sign of a genuine change. There can be no genuine assurances while the Israelis and the US allies control the aid flow, there is no impartiality, and every reason for them to use the aid to maximise their own benefit. Its grotesque that this needs to be explained.
These quites are from your linked article, and summarise well the issue,
sqgl@beehaw.org 1 week ago
UNWRA was compromised so the imperial party angle has been abandoned.
It requires military to keep Hamas from stealing the aid. It is not realistic to expect an outside neutral military to take on this task. UN could not keep Hezbollah in check in Lebanon.
It seems Hamas are annoyed not just that they are being denied supplies for themselves and to sell to civilians but also because they need civilians to be starving to win the PR battle. Full stomachs will divert attention from the war so should we starve the people? Which is it? Allowing Hamas to hijack it isn’t going to happen so forget what the UN says (which is very vague).
Regardless of what we argue here, the distribution will continue. It is just two days into it so let’s see if it going well. Of course for some ProPals it will not go well unless Jews vacate the Levant (an unrealistic fantasy regardless of whether one believes they should be there or not).
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 week ago
UN aid teams plead for access amid reports Gazans shot collecting food
Your points read like propaganda, they’re not a reflection of reality. I suggest you read the link above.
Doesn’t matter that you think they’re some cartoonish bad guy. Its not a spy agency, its an aid agency and it needs to work with Palestinian people in the country.
By Israel’s conveniently umbrella-like ‘assessments’ of these compromised ‘agents’ half the US military would be classified Taliban because they farted in Kabul. They’re people working in the place they’re in, with the people they’re with.
People don’t get to both sides starvation or colllective punishment, or the myriad other crimes. Israel is starving the population of Gaza, simple. When/if we see Hamas doing it, you’ll see my attitudes towards starvation of populations, and other crimes unchanged.
As i’ve said above, it doesn’t matter Hamas’ crimes, it doesn’t mean Israel gets a free pass on their crimes, and withholding food aid, or using it as a method of coercion absolutely are ongoing crimes.
I’ve never seen any verified and independent evidence of this iron grip Hamas apparently has over this bombed out tent city. Read the linked article, who would have thought scarcity created by Israel has had spiralling and detrimental effects on the social cohesion of ~2 million men, women and children.
Unfortunately Israel attempts to block the worlds view of what is happening in Gaza, so their claims must be read down as suspicuous at best, but more likely lies, until one day their actions match their words.
Four rationing points, and this is for a free people of millions?
Aid distributed and closely guarded by their oppressors. Freely given, no coercion, you think?
Think about those questions as you watch this murderous State squeeze this population, and extinguish these people’s lives.