Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that allowing “minimal” aid into Gaza will ensure Israel has continued support from its “friends” to continue with its goal of “destroying” the Palestinian territory.
Smotrich’s comments came after more than 70 days of Israel’s total blockade on Gaza and a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would allow a “basic” amount of food to enter the territory, and the five aid trucks reportedly entered Gaza on Monday, the first trucks since March 2.
Smotrich said allowing a minuscule amount of aid to enter Gaza will allow “for our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and The Hague Tribunal, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory.”
Netanyahu made similar comments on Monday, saying that allowing “minimal” aid into Gaza was about maintaining support from the US. “Our best friends in the world – senators I know as strong supporters of Israel – have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge,” he said.
“We must avoid famine, both for practical reasons and diplomatic ones. Without international backing, we won’t be able to complete the mission of victory,” the prime minister added.
Last year, Smotrich said that it may be “moral and justified” for Israel to starve two million Palestinians to death in Gaza, but that the world wouldn’t let it happen.
Smotrich said on Monday that in the coming days, a small amount of supplies will be delivered to “bakeries that distribute pitas to people and public kitchens that provide a daily ration of cooked food. Civilians in Gaza will receive a pita and a plate of food, and that is it.”
Smotrich praised the Israeli military’s new offensive, dubbed Gideon’s Chariots, saying the IDF was now “destroying what is left of the Strip simply because everything there is one big city of terror.” He said once the civilian population is forced to move to southern Gaza, they will be expelled from Gaza “as part of President Trump’s plan.” Smotrich has been one of the leading proponents of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza within the Israeli government.
Netanyahu said that Israel was engaged in “intense, large-scale combat in Gaza” to take “control of the entire territory.”
Both Netanyahu and Smotrich said that aid wouldn’t reach Hamas. Israel is planning to establish a new aid mechanism that will involve private US contractors providing security for aid distribution points. The plan has been condemned by the UN and other aid agencies as insufficient and as a way to forcibly displace starving Palestinians by using aid as “bait.”
According to initial reports, Israel will allow the UN and international aid agencies to deliver aid trucks until the new mechanism is established. However, the number of trucks Israel is reportedly planning to allow in will not provide sufficient relief to the civilian population.
The time has come for Israel to accept the one true Lord and Savior: Jesus Christ!!!…..!
If not for the TRILLIONS of $$$$ over decades, diplomatic and intelligence support of gentle Jesus meek-and-mild's billions of followers, or at least that of their governments most of which have formal state Christian churches, the Israeli colonial-settler project would not be possible.
Before I get pushback on trillions, what has neocon (simply Zionist) foreign policy cost the West? The US alone? Borrowed and printed.
The Christian Zionists and Evangelicals in the US are waiting for Jesus to return in Israel and the government uses their beliefs for total control of the Middle East via Israel.
I thought it was the flying spaghetti monster.
The only people these cretinous genocidal murderous actions will “fool” are those who desperately want to be fooled.
That includes about 90% of Israeli population and roughly 50% if not more of US population.
Not only are they despicable, bloodthirsty psychopaths, but also morons. It usually helps the plot if you don’t say the quiet part out loud.
They don't care anymore. They're at the point that they can say or do anything they want with impunity because they think (know?) that they can get away with it. That any opposition will be perceived by the mouth-breathing public as "hate". The "anti fill-in-the-blank" kind.
They're simply Not humans…! Perhaps seriously disturbed aliens…!
"dark forest" scenario, indeed !
I listened to a part of Greenwald’s show last night and allegedly the Europeans were taking umbrage at the relief blockade.
I don’t know if there is a true turning away from the death cult, or if they were playing their part in kabuki theater, but that’s why Israelis are faking the help.
Also, the Hamas deal with Trump was return of IDF soldier for aid. Trump was obviously blowing it off.
So in order to keep this “deal maker” fiction going during negotiations with Iran, they had to feign keeping their word.
It’s still incredibly stupid to announce you are robbing a bank while doing it because the tide may turn on who polices you, eventually.
On the other hand, the majority of the Israeli population is so deviantly blood thirsty that they had to say something to satisfy that lust, I guess.
Arrogance beyond any limits.
Un-beflipping-lieveable. These two are openly declaring they are among the most evil humans that ever walked this planet, yet this continues unabated. Gobsmacked…..
This is not large-scale "combat" it's large-scale starving and poisoning innocent kids with the usual pretense of being righteous and fighting "the terrorists." And scum in the US senate support all this as long as a little food is allowed in to pretend everything's all right.
Thing is, the Apartheid State of Israel could find & kill every last member of Hamas and I guarantee they'd claim there are "still more" among the civilian population and will kill every Palestinian to the very last.
Our president is solely responsible for committing our tax dollars for the express purpose of murdering innocent human beings.
There is no gray area here.
Full stop.
I would say the US government. First it was Biden who gave Israel all the weapons and money they wanted and now it is Trump.
Allegedly the UK, France, and (my) Canada are starting to pressure the ASI (day late & dollar short) but I doubt anything will come of it. Bit late for "the Moral Civilised West" to start pumping brakes.
Our president is solely responsible for committing our tax dollars for the express purpose of murdering innocent human beings.
There is no gray area here.
Full stop.
more evidence of israel's wars, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
and of US, UK, French, German and Canadian active complicity in the genocide
Bring them all to trial at The Hague!
That's a long one Donna, I'll have to cue it up on another tab and save it for before bedtime music.
Not mincing words. Can't have a famine fuck up their genocide.
If that's the plan…why the fuck they need US arms…?!
The US workers pay to keep afloat their universal healthcare, education and are probably boosting their economy writ large since people are drafted and aren’t running businesses.
Infuriating, while people here are stuck with debt, losing healthcare, losing homes and our infrastructure is crumbling shit.
The US workers pay to keep afloat their universal healthcare, education and are probably boosting their economy writ large since people are drafted and aren’t running businesses.
Infuriating, while people here are stuck with debt, losing healthcare, losing homes and our infrastructure is crumbling shit.
“The belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man,” wrote Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794)
https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2025/05/19/joint-statement-from-the-leaders-of-the-united-kingdom-france-and-canada-on-the-situation-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank
It appears some of the rats sense they're about to be known as genociders for the remainder of their lives, and their children as the children of genociders, and would like to spin doctor their way into having been on the right side all along. It's France March/April 1945, and as it turns out most people were in the Resistance the whole time. Huh. Imagine that.
https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/2718780-2718780 Joint donor statement on humanitarian aid to Gaza
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163426 UN relief chief welcomes limited Gaza aid resumption – but it’s a ‘drop in the ocean’
Those countries' governments have been supplying Israel with weapons, supplies, money, protection from international arrest warrants, etc etc, all along knowing of the genocide/ethnic cleansing/apartheid. These are empty words from people without whose help the genocide could never have happened, and will not do 1% of what is necessary to stop the attacks that they've done and continue to do to aid the attacks.
A couple of the countries on the list have been vocal about the evident international crime, but so far as I know not a single one has done anything concrete like eject military bases or close airspace to the movement of material to keep the genocide going. I'm not aware of any country on the list categorizing Israeli fundraising activity as the movement of terror funds for example, nor threatening IDF personnel with deportation or arrest. The EU does not have sanctions on Israel and neither does Canada. The money flows.
If anything they've welcomed all things Israel; we're fresh off of a high positioned Eurovision finish for Israel of dubious origin.
These are the too little too late empty words of people who want deniability regarding their participation and profiteering in a genocide. Rats is rats.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250520-france-determined-to-recognise-palestinian-state-foreign-minister
"Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot also reaffirmed that Paris backed a Netherlands-led initiative for a review of the cooperation agreement between the European Union and Israel, which could affect political and economic ties. … Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has authorised a limited amount of humanitarian aid after more than two and a half months of a complete blockade of the Palestinian territory, which is facing a catastrophic humanitarian situation. But Barrot said this was "totally insufficient". The situation in Gaza is "indefensible because blind violence and the blocking of humanitarian aid by the Israeli government have turned Gaza into a death trap if not a cemetery." In a warning to Israel, he added: "When you sow violence you harvest violence.""
I can read rote text in English, it's my native language. Copying and pasting text from a link is not helpful. The question is whether or not you can read into things with context, and read for meaning. "Signs Point to No"
The signing countries are threatening to form a committee to select a panel to think about having a series of meetings to possibly draft a sharply worded letter, although very probably not that much. It provides cynical genocide profiteers and yes-men with something to tell the grandkids when asked "What did you do during the genocide, grandpa?" I'm sure every French grandpa has a story about how they spent 5 years in the resistance, and not selling bread in German while winking in the direction of Jewish families, what grandpa statistically did.
In the meantime, hundreds of millions will flow from said countries into Israel, they will continue to be used as NATO/US bases on the taxpayer dime (or 10 Euro-cent as the case may be) to move munitions to Israel and provide them intelligence and logistical support. All of these countries will continue to prop up the Egyptian military and foreign Islamist invaders of Syria, etc, as they point their guns not at the IDF but at their subject populations for the IDF. German cops will continue to chase 9 year old immigrant children around public squares for the crime of holding up a Palestinian flag. Zionist contributions will still find their way to political parties, Israel will manage to come in 5th or higher in Eurovision 2026.
Rats is rats.
Palestinians die with some dignity intact, Israelis attack as cowards. What part of any of this [article linked to from Antiwar today] sounds like an "army" fighting a "war?"
"Al-Jazeera reported that Israeli special forces infiltrated the Al-Katiba area disguised in civilian clothing and arrived in a private vehicle.
Eyewitnesses said the unit stormed Sarhan’s home, executed him on site, detained his wife and children, and killed another child during their retreat.
To facilitate the withdrawal, Israeli aircraft launched over 40 airstrikes in a span of 40 minutes, supported by helicopter and tank fire. …"
Israel has reached a point of no return from their evil. And the USA is close behind. NY city mayor just made an economic deal with Israel and Trump keeps sending weapons and money while pretending to sideline Netanyahu.
“ We will not go down in Gaza tonight! Tomorrow is another day for us to fight! Until every one of us is free, there can be no freedom!” djv
”We will not go down in Gaza tonight! Tomorrow is another day to fight! Until every one of us is Free!!!” djv
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-officials-explain-balancing
Prophelactics?……
"…continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and The Hague Tribunal…"
There's doing horrendous s**t and pretending you aren't, then there's SAYING OUT LOUD that you know you're doing illegal, immoral atrocities and leaning on goon-squad "friends" to fig-leaf it.
Just… wow.
"…dubbed Gideon’s Chariots…"
Fun fact – the Hebrew war god was unable to help the Israelites defeat lowland Canaanites 'cause the Canaanites had "chariots of iron" (Judges 1:19).
Netanyahu et. al. better hope they have Hamassian forces beaten to Stone Age tech levels or else this genocide is (hopefully) doomed to fail.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jabaliya-gaza-israeli-ground-invasion?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2510348&post_id=164004325&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=18fd8u&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Boycott Israel perhaps?!….
https://www.presstv.ir/Live
https://www.presstv.ir/Live
Aide starting to move into the Gaza Strip!
Palestinians must confront the harsh reality that they are dealing with a supremacist ideology-one rooted in entitlement and a demand for absolute submission. This mindset was made chillingly clear on May 6, when Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich openly declared that Gaza must be "entirely destroyed" and that its 2.3 million Palestinian residents should be "encouraged" to ethnically cleanse themselves. (counterpunch.org. , Jamal Kanj, May 14, 2025)
Third Reich could incarcerate all their enemies. To begin with most inmates were communists, but Jews quickly followed, then gypsies, homosexuals, trade unionists, habitual criminals and dissenters of all kind. (The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror, Gordon Williamson, P-34)