So Blinken has responded to the ProPublica article by saying he's made "determinations" and we'll see them in the days ahead. Just for context - some of the violations in those reports Blinken has been sitting on pre-date October 7. It's just that the massively increased shipments of bombs and munitions since then have made these "determinations" much more urgent - as in "sit in a briefcase for months and only act when news leaks out and gets reported" urgent.
While we're on the topic of what Blinken sees in the "days ahead"....
There are important questions about its governance, its security, its reconstruction. A few – a couple of weeks ago in Tokyo I laid out some basic principles that we see as being necessary. But also, the day after the day after, which is how do we get on a clear path to meeting the legitimate political aspirations of the Palestinian people, which really, in our judgment, is the only way to durable peace, durable security for everyone, starting with Israel and Israelis.
But these are conversations that we’ll pursue in the days ahead, in the weeks ahead, in the months ahead.
Followed by
Third, we will focus on the steps that remain to make sure that October 7th never happens again and that we get on a path to a sustainable, peaceful, secure future for everyone. That starts with the work that’s going to be necessary in Gaza itself to rebuild, to have security, to have Palestinian-led governance...
So the work that needs to be done to get on that first path, the steps that need to be taken, the commitments that countries need to make – this is what we’ll be talking about in the days ahead.
How's that going? The UNSC voted on full admission of Palestine to the UN this past week. 12 votes in favour, two abstentions, and the US vetoed it.
So, through all of these lines of effort, we’re determined to do everything we possibly can to ameliorate the situation for men, women, and children in Gaza when it comes to food, when it comes to humanitarian assistance more broadly. This is an effort that’s absolutely essential, and it is imperative – imperative – that we maximize assistance to people in need. Not only do we get it to Gaza and into Gaza, but once it’s in Gaza, that it can be effectively distributed to people who need it everywhere in Gaza. We’ll be working on that in the days ahead as well.
Since that time, USAID confirmed that Northern Gaza is in famine and Israel was forced to allow more aid in after hunting down foreign aid workers and slaughtering them like animals - but got around this by only letting through half empty trucks.
Actually, let me let Anthony Blinken totally gloss over three months of "days ahead" with his statement on April 9, 2024.
Just yesterday, more than 400 trucks were cleared to go into Gaza, and that is the most since October 7th on any given day. But what matters is results, and sustained results, and this is what we will be looking at very carefully in the days ahead.
Again - half empty trucks. Also, still below the minimum number that aid agencies are saying would be the absolute minimum requirement (500 per day).
I think you get the idea. "Days ahead" means - don't bug me, I'm busy covering up for a genocide. There are a lot of these "days ahead" statements that are just plain ludicrously comical, so I will end off with the most egregious one I found. This one is from October 13, 2023:
I mentioned as well that we’re very actively engaged with UN relief agencies, with the ICRC, with others to address the acute humanitarian needs of people in Gaza – to protect them from harm and make sure that they have the ability to get what they need. We need to ensure, for example, that there are safe areas in Gaza for civilians. We’re working through the details on that, and more to be said in the days ahead, but that’s a priority for us.
Edit: fixed a link
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