These two points have been made elsewhere - but they are important enough that they bear repeating. For background - what is prompting the observation is that within hours of the US threatening to put conditions on military aid - not actually doing it, merely saying that it is a consideration - the Knesset voted to open a new crossing to deliver aid to northern Gaza.
1. Biden can in fact influence Israeli military policy. The corollary to this of course is that - absolutely yes, Biden is more than complicit in the disastrous state of things in Gaza. He is a full willing participant.
2. Israel is blocking aid. They absolutely could do things to improve delivery of food and water and medicine to northern Gaza. They just didn’t. And now they are going to because they have to.
To be clear - that crossing is not open yet. And also too - it’s fucking disgusting that tens of thousands of slaughtered Gazans failed to move the needle, but as soon as some foreign aid workers from allied countries get hunted to death. It’s suddenly a humanitarian crisis that needs action.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the campaign of genocide. Preventing further loss of life is the primary goal.
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