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Five Gazans Killed by US Aid Airdrops as Biden Faces Backlash Over 'Gimmicks'

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what even is this source? delivering humanitarian aid is a gimmick now?
- Dropping humanitarian aid from airplanes, or building a stupid pier is incredibly inefficient and costly. It's theatre to appease the liberals. It's designed to win back voters who are pissed off that genocide Joe won't take meaningful action.
  
  this is the same kind of attitude that republicans have against ukraine or dr fauci...
  
  I find it truly amazing that brain dead liberals actually believe air lifting food is a viable alternative to opening the roads and sending in convoys of trucks. Do you understand they delivered just 30,000 meals in one week? Now do you also understand there are over 1 million people waiting for food. Do the math, how many weeks would it take provide 1 million people with one meal?
"Enough w/ the gimmicks of dropping food from the air & building a pier in two months," Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and former policy director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote in a social media post directed at Biden.
Since when is air dropping aid a gimmick?
- 70,000 meals have been dropped in Gaza over the past week, which is a small portion of what's needed considering the territory has a population of more than 2 million people.
  It's theater. US could force Israel to comply and let the aid in, but instead this is a cheap trick to try and win back voters who think Biden is a failure on this issue.
  
  US could force Israel to comply
  how? cutting support would cause hamas to be emboldened. using force would be throwing decades of treaties away (and remember this started because israeli civilians were killed in a terrorist attack) and alienate a nuclear power... just like cutting aid to ukraine, all that would happen is israeli civilians and gazans would continue to suffer
  netanyahu isnt going to moderate because the un passes a non binding resolution and hamas isnt going to moderate because the us pulls funding
  
  And now this genocidal apologist is talking about building some stupid pier. More theater.
The President sends bombs that kill Palestinians and now the airdropped aid kills Palestinians as well. This is atrocious and it has to stop. - Ilhan Omar

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