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Alameen Templeton
Genocidal Joe Biden has given Israel the green light to massacre, telling Tel Aviv is has a 30-day window to “get the job done” as it turns northern Gaza into a kill zone where every man, woman and child is targeted for annihilation.
Israel is deliberately and maliciously using food as a weapon as its tanks, soldiers and warplanes fire directly, at point-blank range, at anything that moves and famine stalks everyone else.
Aid organisations say less than 4% of required food aid has made it into Gaza since the beginning of October. Now, Biden says the Israelis they “risk losing some military support” if they don’t allow more food in … in 30 days’ time.
Soft deadline for genocide
So the genocidal generals plotting in their war bunker know they have plenty of time to get the job done before any sanctions “might” come from Washington.
“If we cannot get more aid into and across Gaza, we won’t be able to deliver food parcels to more than a million Palestinians in Gaza. People have run out of ways to cope, food systems have collapsed, and the risk of famine is real,” the WFP said in a statement Monday.
After massive international pressure, Israel allowed fuel and medical supplies into three hospitals in northern Gaza on Monday night when 30 trucks were allowed in, but Biden’s 30-day deadline has snuffed out any hopes more will be coming in time to save lives.
In a bid to seem to be concerned about accusations of complicity in genocide, the White House leaked a “confidential” letter, addressed to the Israeli government from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. It “warned” Israel to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza or risk a reassessment of US military support.
Hamas said the White House letter was an ” attempt to clear its image and reputation stained with the blood of the Palestinian people”,
Ignores glaring evidence
The letter says: “In accordance with US law and policy, including National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20), the departments of state and defense must continually assess your government’s adherence to your March 2024 assurances that Israel would ‘facilitate and not arbitrarily deny, restrict or otherwise impede, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance and US government supported international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance’ to and within Gaza,” the letter stated.
The release of the NSM-20 report in May revealed Biden’s administration had ignored all the glaring evidence that genocide is unfolding in Gaza. The White House avoided making legal determinations on clear Israeli violations of international law. Instead, it said Israel’s assurances it was facilitating humanitarian aid were “credible and reliable” and that there were no grounds for suspending US weapons shipments.
It has since come to light that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and a State Department bureau in April alerted the Biden administration that Israel was subjecting humanitarian aid destined for Gaza to “arbitrary denial, restriction and impediments”.
However, a month later, Blinken’s NSM-20 report ignored the warnings.
America’s Foreign Assistance Act outlaws providing US military support to governments that withhold humanitarian aid.
Eyes firmly shut
Blinken and Austin’s latest letter makes it clear, as far as the White House is concerned, until now, there’s been no evidence of starvation.
Aid organisations are holding out little hope the blinkers will fall from their eyes in the next 30 days.
But, what the White House can’t see, is very plain to almost everyone else around the world.
Attendees at the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva on Monday walked out during Israel’s address, with many delegates chanting “Free Palestine” as they walked out.
Media reports said other anti-Israel initiatives included calls for downgrading its standing within the IPU and adopting the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling on Israeli policies in the occupied territories.
‘Depths of hell’
Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer of Palestine to the UN, has denounced in a post on X Israel’s nine-day siege of northern Gaza as “a genocide within the genocide”.
The international organization, Save the Children, says the situation in Gaza is equivalent to the “depths of hell,” calling the attack against the besieged area a “war on children” since no one is safe.
Its regional director Jeremy Stoner said Monday that “what we’re seeing now in Gaza looks like the depths of hell, with reports of attacks on children and families day after day.”
“Nowhere is safe,” he added.
Over the next 30 days, Blinken and Austin said Israel must allow 350 aid trucks a day into Gaza. Most aid organisations estimate 500 to 700 trucks a day are needed to meet basic survival needs.
Their letter also calls for winter preparations, allowing refugees to “move inland” and ending forced displacement from northern to southern Gaza. They urged Israel to remove bureaucratic barriers preventing certain drivers and goods from entering the strip.
The US is still blocking aid to Unrwa, the UN refugee relief organisation that is a vital lifeline in Gaza, but Blinken and Austin call in their letter for the protection of the institution.
‘Not meant as a threat’
“We are deeply concerned about the potential adoption of Knesset legislation to remove certain privileges and immunities from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) and its staff, prohibit official contact with Unrwa, and change the status quo regarding Unrwa In Jerusalem,” Blinken and Austin wrote. “We urge you to take all positive steps… to ensure this does not come to pass.”
White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby hastened to add “the letter was not meant as a threat”.
“A 30-day deadline is basically a death sentence, especially for those in northern Gaza that are facing famine,” Natasha Hall, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Middle East Eye.
Al-Mayadeen reports Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat al-Rishq said “the one-month deadline mentioned in Blinken and Austin’s letter, in light of the occupation’s siege and preventing sufficient aid from reaching the entire Gaza Strip and its total absence in the north, makes the US administration fully responsible for the continuation of the crimes of starvation, thirst, and death from diseases affecting thousands in the Gaza Strip.”
State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, called the timeline a “short window”.
Most health experts say all Gazans are already in Stage Two of starvation, where all their fat stores are gone. Most are already in Stage Three and their bodies are starting to feed on their muscles, turning protein into energy.
But the muscles break down very quickly, and because protein is essential for cells to work, death usually occurs soon after due to either infection or tissue breakdown.
‘A chance to cure the problem’
So, Miller’s “short window” will be far too long for most northern Gaza residents.
“We didn’t think it was appropriate to send a letter and just say this has to happen overnight. We believe it’s appropriate to give them a chance to cure the problem,” Miller said.
And anyway, Washington wasn’t obliged to follow through on its threat to cut military supplies if Israel failed to comply, he added.
“In actuality, the US has rarely ever used this law. And even in times when there’s been a judgment that a US ally, like Turkey, for example, has been impeding aid, there is a waiver component to this that US officials have used in the past,” Hall told MEE.
“So, I’m sort of cautiously optimistic that this will lead to more positive outcomes for Gaza,” she said.
Miller believes Gazans are well-fed.
“If you look at the last year and our record of working to get humanitarian assistance into Gaza, what you’ve seen is the US intervening… on multiple occasions when we thought the levels of assistance getting in weren’t sufficient, when there were policies that needed to be changed, when there are new gates that needed to be opened. We’ve intervened to get that to happen and you’ve seen those results,” Miller told reporters.
Stoner, of Save the Children, had a different view: “Gaza is what can happen without the rules of war. Except there are rules – for parties to the conflict, and for the international community – which are not being respected.”
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