The State Department said Israel needs to take more steps to improve the situation among Palestinians. The United States had given the country 30 days to meet aid criteria.

The State Department said on Tuesday that it did not plan to decrease weapons aid to Israel, as a 30-day deadline set by the Biden administration passed without the country substantially improving the humanitarian situation in war-devastated Gaza.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had warned in a letter dated Oct. 13 that the United States would reassess its military aid to Israel if it failed to increase the amount of aid allowed to enter Gaza within 30 days.

The letter said that the humanitarian situation for the two million residents of Gaza was “increasingly dire” and that the amount of aid entering Gaza had fallen by 50 percent since April.

By law, the U.S. government cannot give aid to foreign military forces deemed by the State Department to be committing “gross violations of human rights.”

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    Your whole movement wants/needs to learn about politics and human behavior.

    You expect blind loyalty and obedience in support of your beliefs and values but refuse to be anti genicide…

    What would have Biden and Harris lose if they stopped the genicide in Palestine? Would they have lost Republicans votes? How about Zionest votes? How about the Evangelicals votes? No. So they told millions of people Arab, Muslims, and Far left people to fuck off and then want to cry about what? Not being liable in the genicide? That our genicide was more just because it was going slow?

    Every Arab and Muslim coalition in the DNC warned them that if they didn’t change course on Palestine they wouldn’t get Arab and Muslim votes. So who’s fault exactly?

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      I don’t get this either. Like, they tell people to vote Harris, despite her having a shitty pro-genocide policy. Instead, she could’ve said “enough”, stopped the genocide, and I could be telling people to suck it up and vote for her despite her being against genocide. Which world would be a better place? Of course the one where Palestinians get to live.

      But apparently that’s something that’s unthinkable

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        Yup all these train track memes and people complaining about Arabs and Muslims not supporting their values, while automatically assuming the Palestinians will be killed regardless.

        Like there was nothing to lose and everything to gain if Harris had a left facing platform. But they told their base to go pound sand… After voting for them of course.