The Biden administration has given Israel until after the US presidential election to ease the starving of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, according to a letter obtained by Axios.
The letter, written by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, was sent on Sunday and gave Israel 30 days to allow more aid deliveries into Gaza and take other steps to improve humanitarian conditions.
The letter says that a failure to implement these measures may have “implications for US policy under NSM-20 and relevant US law (weapons supply),” referring to foreign assistance laws that prohibit US military aid to countries blocking aid deliveries.
US government agencies had previously concluded Israel was deliberately blocking aid, but Blinken overrode those concerns to ensure US weapons continued to flow to Israel.
While the letter hints that Israel’s failure to take the steps the US is asking for could impact military aid, it doesn’t threaten to cut off weapons shipments. State Department spokesman Matt Miller was asked on Tuesday what consequences there may be for Israel, but he wouldn’t say.
The letter comes two weeks after Israel cut off all aid deliveries to northern Gaza and ordered the estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Palestinians in the area to evacuate to the south. Israeli media has reported that Israel is carrying out a “scaled-down” version of the “general’s plan,” which, if completed, would result in the complete ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza and the extermination of anyone who stayed behind.
Even before Israel began implementing the plan, aid deliveries into Gaza reached an all-time low. “The amount of assistance entering Gaza in September was the lowest of any month during the past year,” Blinken and Austin said in the letter.
The letter calls for Israel to allow 350 aid trucks to enter Gaza on a daily basis, enact “humanitarian pauses” to allow for the distribution of aid, and allow the over one million Palestinians taking refuge at the al-Mawasi camp on the coast to move inland before the winter.
In an apparent response to the letter, Israel said on Monday that it allowed 30 aid trucks to enter northern Gaza. However, Gaza’s Government Media Office denied the trucks came in, calling the claim “lies.”
The 30-day timeline gives Israel plenty of time to kill and starve more Palestinians in northern Gaza, and the Biden administration could choose not to follow through on the deadline after the election. Israel is also expected to attack Iran before the US presidential election on November 5, which could provoke a full-blown war that would involve the US, taking more attention off of Gaza.
In the meantime, the US continues to provide weapons to Israel and is deploying a THAAD missile defense system to Israel. About 100 US troops are also being sent to Israel to operate the THAAD, making them potential targets of Iranian missiles.
To make sure they are all dead?
I think it's more so Harris and the Democrats can run on a campaign plank of "Kamala Harris & the Democratic Party : Only THEY Can End The Palestinian Suffering They Aided And Abetted In The First Place"
No food has entered Gaza since October 1st. These are people who are already starving. 30 days more, they’ll be dead.
This is absolute cruelty.
Agree.
Not to mention, no water and no meds. The combination of those two will kill faster than starvation.
Add in being burned alive, polio and other infectious diseases.
This Blinken evil is reminiscent of the "500,000 Iraqi children deaths worth it" of the execrable Madam Albright …
Without moral standards of any kind, how can a society survive?
Your comment reminds me of Lion Witch and Wardrobe book where the Snow Queen is from an old society with an old sun that is dying.
Her name was Jadis, I believe, and we get her story in 'The Magician's Nephew', Book 1 of 7 in the Narnia series (sadly, reading LWW in elementary school, they never mentioned it's Book 2)
And that scene on that world, with the statue kings and the dying sun, is one of Lewis's best, I think. So cool.
I’m surprised you like that series so much but are left wing. I loved reading it growing up.
CS Lewis stole more from Christianity for Narnia than Christianity stole from Judaism and Zoroastrianism. But they’re great reads and vivid in scene- and world-building.
Oh, and he SOOOO borrowed Norse legend-lore with the green and yellow rings in the 1st book…(Tolkien, too)
“Screwtape Letters” was good, even if it was Lewis jousting with himself over his own beliefs.
Space Trilogy is good though rough.
Worse, maybe:
Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Suggest
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/blinken-approved-policy-bomb-aid-trucks
Complete BS. Another CYA PR move. Nothing more.
It's just another election stunt because a few people around Harris are concerned the current genocide-enabling might harm some votes somewhere, which, given the closeness of the race – 1-2 percentage points – might throw the election to Trump.
Anyone who takes this seriously is a moron.
EXACTLY.
He should give Israel 2 days, no more. 30 days is monstrous.
Me as President : "Netanyahu, end the blockade. You have ten."
Netanyahu : "Days ?"
Me : "Nine…eight…seven…"
The letter says that a failure to implement these measures may have “implications for US policy under NSM-20 and relevant US law (weapons supply),” referring to foreign assistance laws that prohibit US military aid to countries blocking aid deliveries.
Right. Not a matter of you barbarians starving people to death that bother Blinken and Austin it's more about that pesky law.
If it was the other way around, Palestinians starving Israelis, what would such a timeline be?
OR WHAT? We'll write a strongly worded letter that will be published only in selected US media outlets?
This is six months late and should be implemented immediately
Now that this has sunk in, they're actually giving Israel 30 days to stop starving people? Not a demand for the aid to start immediately, but a threat that there may be implications regarding US policies AFTER 30 days. So, it would seem, they could hold off any trucks from entering for the next 29 days and they still wouldn't be in jeopardy of losing any US aid. Is that right? I must have misunderstood something.
Until AFTER the election. How convenient. This Harris-Biden regime is shameless.
That should actually work against them. But sadly, we are a sick society and them giving the ok to continue to starve people doesn't seem to bother us.
It may follow the Tag-Up Rule, popularized by baseball, and Canadians overwintering in Arizona.
The ASI can block aid for 29 days…then allow ONE truck on the 30th day…then go back to a full blockade indefinitely unless the "threat" is renewed – at which point they repeat the dodge.
It's absolutely amazing how Biden and his gang of butchers can find so many ways to evade responsibility for their complicity in Netanyahu's war crimes. History won't be kind to this gang of sociopathic criminals.
This allows Biden/Harris to claim to help Palestinians while also promising others that they will not. They promise they might act, but only to be shown after the election.
Then after the election they can go on as they have, without a care about the voters they offend, just keep on taking the money.
There is a huge electronic billboard of Kamala Harris promising to "stand with Israel" displayed near me, over the corner gas station that is owned by a Lebanese family who all work in it. Guess what they have to say? They resent that billboard, and are loud about it.
Nobody is fooled, unless they want to be fooled.
The US tells Israel to finish the Palestinians by the end of the election.
The US government is postponing a decision until after the elections on 5 November 24, although Israel is significantly cutting off humanitarian aid until mid-October according to its own statistics.
https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/main/
https://www.usaid.gov/usaid-response-wbg
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-humanitarian-support-to-palestinians/
https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/where/middle-east-and-northern-africa/palestine_en
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15821.doc.htm ‘Time Slipping Away as Man-made Humanitarian Crisis Turns Gaza into the Abyss’, Senior United Nations Official Tells Security Council
https://www.ochaopt.org/
https://www.unrwa.org/
https://reliefweb.int/country/pse
https://www.msf.org/palestine
https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2024/unissgsm1446.html Message on World Food Day
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155691 WORLD FOOD DAY LIVE
https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/en
https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/06e0ef30-24e0-4c37-887a-8caf5a641616/content The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2024
https://www.ble.de/SharedDocs/Meldungen/EN/2024/241014_World-Food-Day.html
"The letter says that a failure to implement these measures may have “implications for US policy under NSM-20 and relevant US law (weapons supply),” referring to foreign assistance laws that prohibit US military aid to countries blocking aid deliveries"
The important two words are "may have" . It's an escape clause. If they were serious they would have used "will" instead.
handala,
Tonight is the start of Sukkot, a time to celebrate community and get to know our neighbors. Since ancient times, we’ve gathered in the sukkah — a place of shelter where resources are shared.
What if we expected our country to be like a sukkah? Open, welcoming, generous. A sukkat shalom, a sukkah of wholeness and safety.
We support your Genocide till November 5th by providing you huge amount of 2000-lb bombs , and then again we support your Genocide after November 5th till January 11th knowing that you have enough 2000-lb bombs to last you until next friendly president…!
How convenient to look good until after the election, that is all that is expected from the war criminal of the Biden administration. Make Netanyahu happy without losing votes for Harris.
I used to think that Hitler was the worst ever, not anymore.
There are many Hitler, people like him. There is Pol Pot, Netanyahu, Biden, Stalin, and all the neocons like Nuland and Blinken and Sullivan and all the Zionists in the Likud and the cabinet in Tel Aviv and so many more just like them including Harris and Trump, and the criminal Zionist population in Israel. To vote for such people makes us complicit in war crimes. We know what is happening in Gaza and Lebanon, we know it is the most brutal massacre of a nation. By voting to support Trump or Harris, both promising to continue the annihilation of the Palestinian people as is, we are complicit and guilty.
It's best to vote Peace & Freedom or Green party…!
US Foreign Policy Illiteracy…! Hilarious…!
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/605725-us-elections-foreign-policy/
Any American voting for Harris/Trump, voting for Dem/Rep, are voting for the Genocide of Palestinians. NO American who knows, understands what the Revolution was about, why we have a Constitution, Bill of Rights, ETC., would not want to vote for a Zionist. Human Life, all Life, deserve the same Rights to Self Determination and never have the BOOT of Hate on their neck. Please vote OUT the Zionist in D.C., Biden/Harris/Trump/Rep/Dem, are WAR Criminals, meaning they HATE our Constitution.
They're correlating the US election date with the potential Israeli attack on Iran…! As if Israel is the US 51st State…! That's called brainwashing…! Unfortunately, US public would fall for it…!