You don't need a chart to tell you when a dependent variable goes to zero, but just for the record:
COGAT's motto is, "We’ve said it the whole time — There is no limit to the amount of aid that can be facilitated into Gaza." That's obviously pretty questionable, but in any case they aren't saying it any more.
For what it's worth, the main Rafah crossing into Gaza remains shut down, but COGAT says a few trucks are now entering through both the Erez crossing and the just reopened Kerem Shalom crossing.
"A Day in the Life of Abed Salama" by Nathan Thrall just won a Pulitzer. It provides some good background information about Israel's occupation, from the point of view of various Palestinians, when a busload of six year olds is involved in a traffic accident, overturned, and burned, and one father's desperate efforts to find his son.
Thanks for the recommendation.
An earlier good (but fictionalized) account of the Palestinians' plight since 1948 is Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury..
Thanks! I will check this one out!
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I second this recommendation.
It should be part of the curriculum in Israel.
Didn't Hamas shoot missles at the Kerem Shalom crossing, killing three Israelis a few days ago?
Earlier, that was where not just the army, but civilians blocked food aid to the Palestinisns just past that border. Bad enough when Netanyahu & the IDF do it, but for others to want to starve the noncombatants is disturbing;; they can't make Hamas surrender.
They fired mortars at a depot where the IDF was preparing heavy equipment for an assault on Rafah and killed four Israeli soldiers. An risk to civilians came because the IDF is hiding its facilities among them.
Not at the crossing itself, at an IDF staging area ‘near’ the crossing. All the casualties were IDF; the civilians in the nearest Israeli settlement had been evacuated. https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-10-israelis-hurt-in-hamas-rocket-attack-from-south-gazas-rafah/
3 Israeli soldiers
curious how you left out the soldier part
So no, a military outpost was targeted, funny that.
Not surprised, and any food truck that makes it in is going to get the World Central Kitchen Massacre treatment. Sick bastards.
Say it ain’t so genocide Joe! Oh well. Decades of bipartisan foreign policy keep coming home to roost! Hamas might not have taken over Israel, but we’ll soon find out if they managed to punish American liberals. Kinda funny.
“One of the reasons Israel isn’t yet fighting a full-blown war to its north is that Hezbollah has so far been deterred from a full-scale attack, not least from fears of having its arsenal of an estimated 150,000 rockets and missiles decimated by the Israeli Air Force. But what if the Lebanese terrorist group looks at reports of Israeli munitions’ shortages and decides that now would be an opportune time to strike?
If that were to happen, the loss of civilian life in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities could be immense. Biden would have no choice but to authorize a massive airlift of munitions to Israel — reversing this week’s decision. And the United States might have to even more directly support Israel militarily.”
Wouldn’t that be hilarious!
Nothing about this is hilarious, unless you find death and suffering funny. Maybe you do. But you also are wrong about the implications.
From Josh Marshall at TPM:
"Let’s also be clear that the U.S. government has made it crystal clear that for Iron Dome, for the other missile defense systems, for anything happening to the north, for anything with Iran, the U.S. is there to supply all the weaponry Israel needs. This isn’t a cut off of arms for Israel. It’s tied specifically to this operation."
Ignore him. The troll is just soiling himself in hope of making eye contact with somebody. Anybody.
When we laugh at tragedies, we alleviate the tension associated with sudden destruction, we negotiate its absurdity, we ease the emotional chaos and we tame the taboo of death.
Dueling pundits. Take your pick.
Justin is an amoral monster. Until he finally fucks off and dies, you should ignore him.
The guy withholding arms from Israel is 'genocide'?
Sounds like you're a genocide poseur.
Either President Biden is right that we are all equal, or Netanyahu and Hamas are right that some people are important and other people are not important. I'm on President Biden's side. Which side are you on?
I go with Biden
Only took Biden 6 months to get to this point.
Biden's been critical of Israel's actions the whole time.
But he's not the only one making these decisions.
Well, my broad defense of this latest move by Mr Biden to include the pier
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Maybe it is for the best...too long, too detailed on the means and methods of war.
And I didn't copy it either...To Hell with Me...lol Traveller
The comments are a nice illustration of why Israelis and Palestinians hate each other. They all need to fuck off and die! Thanks Austin and stench!
The fact that there aren't any good guys in this conflict is plonkingly obvious to outside observers. It's just two groups of violent fanatics fighting each other. Ideally, the US wouldn't be involved at all, except by sending aid to those civilians who are suffering from the conflict.
...and there it is, the comment supporting genocide.
Exactly. The US needs to continue to support Israel to prevent the genocide of Jews.
Here's a thought exercise for you:
Israel is thoroughly dependent upon support from the US, which doesn't completely share its belief in more territory for Jews from the river to the sea, and destroying any resistance to that regardless of the human cost. Maybe "regardless of the non-Jewish human cost" is more accurate.
So Israel has to tone down what it says and does in order not to offend the sensitivities of its sponsor.
What if Israel didn't rely on our support?
Would they be any better than Russia in Ukraine? Any better than Nazi Germany in Poland and Hungary?
I'd like to think they'd be at least a little better ... but I don't think they'd be very much better.
Russia attacked a sovereign country. Israel needs to continually defend itself from people that want to wipe it off the map and commit genocide if it’s people. Israel has no similarity to Russia. It has much more in common with Ukraine.
Nope.