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The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be "pulling out every stop" to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.

"Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough," the US President said, noting "hundreds of trucks" should be entering the enclave.

Biden said the US is "going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses".

He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an "immediate ceasefire" that would allow additional aid in.

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[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

It isn't the dnc's fault a third of the country is apparently fascist these days. Nothing moves left until the ultra right is thoroughly defeated and sent back to the shadows.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Yes it is. The Democrats have had plenty of opportunities to step away from their pro-corporate stance and start doing things to help people. Every single time they cave to Republican pressure in the name of "bipartisanship". Look at the border policy they just proposed that was everything that Republicans wanted. Democrats will give the whole game away just to keep that sweet sweet donor money coming in.

"Republicans are worse" is a shitty argument when Democrats already give them everything they want.

In fact the Democrats LOVE the far right because they can just point to them and go "well you don't want THOSE guys in charge do you?", while doing absolutely nothing to help the populace who are suffering under greedflation.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Bullshit. They can absolutely move left and pick up all the voters they left behind over the decades.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There are nowhere near enough left behind voters to make up for one's they'd lose. We have to marginalized the ultra right first.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

So we have to keep moving right to marginalize the right? We keep running party propaganda further to the right, and expect that makes less people vote to the right?

That's the most insane shit I've heard all day.

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