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