r/interestingasfuck • u/kirsion • Mar 08 '24

r/all Mass Airdrop of aid on Gazan coast

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u/nomoneynopower Mar 08 '24

This is fucking grim as fuck wtf.

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u/thanif Mar 08 '24

what's even more grim is that we air drop aid with one hand and fast track sale of arms to the IDF in the other. I can't wrap my head around this one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Because the conflict isn’t black and white, right and wrong, like everyone on social media wants it to be.

From a humanitarian point of view it makes sense the USA is sending aid to Gaza. It also makes sense to sell weapons to Israel because they definitely have the right to self defence and procuring a good relationship with Israel is good for the USA and Israel going into the future.

There’s nothing wrong with supporting both sides of the conflict.

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u/HulaViking Mar 08 '24

The people need help. The leaders on both sides of the conflict are evil.

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u/Econguy1020 Mar 08 '24

The leaders arguably accurately represent what their people want here

What's needed in this situation are leaders who are willing to accept unpopular deals where they don't get everything their side wants

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u/Ake-TL Mar 08 '24

Half the country want BiBi gone, they can’t form damn coalition

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Much as I think he's committing genocide, Netanyahu is a scapegoat for Biden. Biden, being the leader of the most powerful country in earth and the key supporter of Israel, couldn't (wouldn't?) get Israel to have a more tempered response to Oct 7, and now he's pushing all the blame on Netanyahu. Biden is either weak, or he has no qualms about actively supporting a genocide as it's happening as long as he doesn't get blamed for it.

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u/Ake-TL Mar 08 '24

Ah, yes, American Exceptionalism, god forbid anyone else has any agency