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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Biden's call with Bibi
Date: 04/04/24 9:04 PM
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Dope1: ...was a train wreck.

Umm.

The Israeli government approved the opening of three aid corridors that were specifically requested by President Biden in a Thursday call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, CBS News has learned.

Mr. Biden told Netanyahu that the Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza was "unacceptable," and warned that U.S. policy toward the conflict going forward will depend on Israel's actions to relieve the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the White House said.


By "train wreck," did you mean immediately effective?

Dope1: In his last job Biden and Obama gleefully droned anybody they wanted...

Hardly. In eight years, drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians. In six months, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war in Gaza; of those, about 40% were children.

Israel says the number of dead is closer to 65,000. So, between 5-10% of the population of Gaza have been killed in the war.

Chef José Andrés said his World Central Kitchen charity's team in the Gaza Strip was deliberately targeted by the Israeli military with deadly airstrikes that killed seven staffers on Monday, including a young American father.

"This was not just a bad luck situation where, 'Oops, we dropped a bomb in the wrong place,'" Andrés told the Reuters news agency, stressing that his team's vehicles were clearly marked and "it's very clear who we are and what we do."

"They were targeting us in a deconflicting zone, in an area controlled by IDF. They, knowing that it was our teams moving on that road... with three cars," he said, adding that he believed the seven aid workers killed by the strike in Gaza were targeted "systematically, car by car."


World Central Kitchen said it had coordinated its movements in Gaza with the IDF and this was not a case of "misidentification."

No one on the world stage has been a stronger supporter of Israel after the Hamas terrorist attack but no one's patience is inexhaustible.

I look forward to your comments on the secret meeting between Jared Kushner and Netanyahu and the Trump Organization's plans to develop a Trump Tower on waterfront property in the Gaza Strip.

cbsnews.com - Biden netanyahu phone call israel world central kitchen strike gaza

cbsnews.com - Israel gaza world central kitchen strike jose andres direct attack aid workers

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