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2025-02-23 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Trump administration approves funds for Gaza aid, Red Cross after initial freeze

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 2025-02-23 00:51|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
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#1 but why more aid for Gaza, when it only goes straight into Hamas warehouses without stopping to be delivered to the unconnected languishing in tents in the south?

I don't see how this decision could have any effect that wasn't bad. The Trump administration is rewarding atrocious behavior.

If there's any real humanitarian need, Qatar should pick up the tab.

If the US left was smart they'd attack Trump for being a weak appeaser.

Why doesn't he pressure Qatar into making a one sided deal on minerals, to compensate the world for a century of unprovoked MB aggression, they should ask.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-23 04:22|| 2025-02-23 04:22|| Front Page Top

#2 but why more aid for Gaza, when it only goes straight into Hamas warehouses

A mischievous person might take advantage of that fact. A lot of aid going every which way is hard to keep track of. With only a few loads, the task becomes smaller. Especially if every pallet has its own radio tracking beacon.

An electronic sniffer van drives through a neighborhood searching for telltale signals. The Brits already do a similar thing looking for unlicensed TV sets. Now you have a map with targeting coordinates for later, but in the meantime, places to set up CCTV to do facial recognition on passersby. Did you know that you can train a neural network to recognize people by their gait as well as their face?

Put up a Reaper drone for overwatch and on-demand interdiction, and Robert is your Dad's brother.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-23 10:15|| 2025-02-23 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Bless your devious mind, SteveS — I feel so much better now. I was very upset by the articles I posted overnight, though all that was predictable given what Hamas has always been.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 12:27|| 2025-02-23 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone in The Trump administration recently released $5.3 billion in previously frozen foreign aid

I'd have to reconsider this in two days.
I want to see if it gets 'clawed back'.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-23 14:26|| 2025-02-23 14:26|| Front Page Top

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