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Bibi wants money, but wants roadblocks to getting Palestinians aid. Omnipresent 21 hrs ago #1
I'd think Palestinian leadership should be questioned jimfields33 21 hrs ago #2
Can they hear the questions around the explosions and ambulance sirens? Omnipresent 21 hrs ago #3
Yes they can. Even from Turkey, or Qatar, or from wherever they are hiding. Beastly Boy 15 hrs ago #24
What are you trying to say? Omnipresent 10 hrs ago #55
I am trying to answer your question. Beastly Boy 9 hrs ago #57
You can't send in aid from the West Bank without getting past the Israeli soldiers muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #4
The convoys are getting past Israeli soldiers allright! They are being left undelivered and looted Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #27
Except that is not what news reports say. For instance, the one in the OP. (nt) muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #31
Don't believe your lyin eyes Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #35
The Kerem Shalom crossing is in southern Gaza muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #37
"Order-enforcing replacements". What a pretty euphemism! Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #42
Not a euphemism. As Haaretz wrote, muriel_volestrangler 13 hrs ago #46
What made them "local police", other than the guns? Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #49
Bollocks. muriel_volestrangler 12 hrs ago #52
Who identified them as police, and on what grounds? Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #53
Where would they get supplies to take care of people? womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #14
On the Gaza side of the border. Tons of supplies are stuck in Gaza and remain undelivered Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #29
The warehouses under Israeli control? muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #34
Bernie is working on part of that - womanofthehills 21 hrs ago #9
Hello Israel supporters, this is not OK!! AloeVera 21 hrs ago #5
I understand. But they've been saying that Gaza is in the jimfields33 21 hrs ago #7
Trucks are often blocked at border womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #10
Hamas is just terrible. jimfields33 20 hrs ago #11
But you fail to mention Israel drones womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #16
Israel is supplying the food. Would be weird for them to destroy it. jimfields33 19 hrs ago #19
Israel doesn't supply the food. The UN does. NGOs do. Israel then decides if they block it or not. muriel_volestrangler 19 hrs ago #22
It is not Hamas, it is criminal gangs looting right under the IDF's noses. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #23
Yes, more questions. Imagine IDF interfering with the looting in any way. Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #39
So they shoot at Palestinian policemen trying to prevent the looting instead? N/T. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #40
Yes. Yes they do. Look up the rules governing enemy combatants in the Geneva Conventions. Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #45
I don't think the 2 sides went to the aid trucks hand-in-hand. AloeVera 13 hrs ago #48
Regardless of what you think, Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #50
You can have all the trucks in the world but if they deny the request for the access it does no good. moniss 20 hrs ago #13
Now drones are destroying the aid womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #15
Pure sadistic barbarism. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #18
It's a land grab by genocide Avalon Sparks 14 hrs ago #25
Thank you, kindred spirit. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #30
We truly are Avalon Sparks 8 hrs ago #59
Whose drones? Where? Link please! Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #33
No, I don't think you understand. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #21
The same people who say it is pure evil for Israel to not take charge of aid deliveries in Gaza, also say Beastly Boy 8 hrs ago #58
Hello Israel detractor, tons of supplies are siring on the Gazan side of the border Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #32
The BBC really left a lot out in this article Mosby 21 hrs ago #6
Horrible. They were voted in to take care of their population jimfields33 21 hrs ago #8
Wow! And you read this where? womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #17
Still doesn't excuse the Palestinian government from negligence. jimfields33 19 hrs ago #20
It's criminal gangs allowed to loot by the IDF. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #38
That was in central and southern Gaza, not northern, so it's not the story the BBC was reporting muriel_volestrangler 20 hrs ago #12
Holocaust Survivor: "Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. We've got to fight back." C0RI0LANUS 14 hrs ago #26
Sanders is a non practicing Jew who doesn't represent Jews. JohnSJ 14 hrs ago #36
When the sociopath takes over I wonder what will happen? JohnSJ 14 hrs ago #28
After 13 months you're still wondering what happens when a sociopath is given free rein?? AloeVera 13 hrs ago #41
If hamas didn't provide the catalyst of October 7, this would NOT have happened. In addition, the actions of hamas JohnSJ 13 hrs ago #43
Nice try. N/T AloeVera 13 hrs ago #44
Nice try about what? Hamas has all but insured that netanyahu will not be leaving anytime soon. JohnSJ 13 hrs ago #47
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) represents human beings and ran for President of the United States. C0RI0LANUS 12 hrs ago #51
Very interesting. Bernie represents human beings. Beastly Boy 9 hrs ago #56
Man's inhumanity to man in full display. I've been to Israel seven times and I'm never going back. C0RI0LANUS 11 hrs ago #54
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