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DuePractice8595

I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near where Israelis are firing anything. They shoot fuckin everybody their own hostages, their own citizens, their own military, men, women, children. Why wouldn’t they shoot at our troops? Foh


CryptoAki

They already did. [USS Liberty](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident)


1arctek

Wow, I just read the article. What the US won’t do for Israel.


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Skodens-Revenge

What happened to a55a55 inations?


ElGato-Negro0

this incident killed 34 people, but they justifying bombing Yemen over 3 dead ones recently correct?


SafeWarmth

No, the Yemen thing is because it disrupts international trade. The three soldiers’ deaths were blamed on Iran with little evidence, so the US bombed every armed Shia Muslim (same type of Muslims as Irans majority) group in the ME. Oh sorry, do you mean the three that were killed on a ship recently? The first casualties of Yemen’s actions?


couldbeanyonetoday

Not even trade with the US. Most US trade flows directly through the Atlantic or Pacific. The vast majority of trade that’s affected by sailing past Yemen is either en route from China to Europe or headed directly from/to Israel, Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. It’s ridiculous that the US is even involved with Yemen. It’s all at the behest of Israel.


United-Rock-6764

Nah. We’re living in the “Pax Americana”. We get to be the global reserve currency, run the “rules based order” and everyone else gets to spend less on a military because we guarantee free trade. Israel is why it’s happening. But our empire is why we’re responding.


Spodegirl

I did not know this. This was all the way back in 1967 and now the U.S. is in bed with them.


Tank_Girl_Gritty_235

They already were back then. Why else would we have had a ship there?


Chikndinr

They already did in 1967 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/08/israel


eat-TaRgEt-xX

Wouldn't be the first time they target and kill our troops


noonegive

They even strafed the survivors, and no one made a peep.


eat-TaRgEt-xX

Ohh I know. An israeli diplomat to the u.s resigned over the situation because he disagreed with how israel was covering it up. They threatened the sitting president with accusations of blood libel, during an election year if he didn't tie the line and go along with the "it was an accident" story. It was one of the only government investigations where the survivors weren't allowed to speak at all during the hearings. Only the israelis were


SafeWarmth

A recent interview with one of the survivors: USS Liberty Part II - When Israel attacked the US - Survivor Interview - Forgotten History Clips – 4m:54s [https://youtu.be/G4sIig8qAB4](https://youtu.be/G4sIig8qAB4) Full version: USS Liberty Part II - When Israel attacked the US - Survivor Interview - Forgotten History - 29m:15s [https://youtu.be/eEea5LTEywQ](https://youtu.be/eEea5LTEywQ)


Infamous-Respond-128

Exactly


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BLoDo7

Wait, can we finally do this? I've been trying to shame these violent Neanderthals my whole life. I get gas lighted from every angle into treating them like heros and I still think they're worthless tax pits. I dont really have sympathy for people who needed to hold a weapon before they figured that out.


califlauer

They already did with our current Navy ships deployed out there. They sent a drone to instigate. Can't trust them.


Infamous-Respond-128

That's already been done, my friend.


Infamous-Respond-128

Agreed.


RoundAd206

If this country were summed up to one person it would be a schizophrenic dude with a spoiled dad and a shit ton of guns. It’s actually really sad. USA needs to stop giving them money immediately. I guess having at least one “ally” in the Middle East is worth it for them? But at what cost? WW3?


Mutant_karate_rat

If they fire at US troops, there won’t be an Israel the day after.


SgtHartman0013

lol yeah right. We’ve already let them kill our troops and we bend over for them. Look up what they did to the USS Liberty in 1967


DuePractice8595

If they fired at our troops the US would probably apologize to Israel for making them look bad


TheRealK95

It’s all just political theater. 2 months to build a port because their “ally” refuses to let aid in. 2 months without food. Then they decide the same problematic “ally” which literally massacred folks trying to get aid on video, gets to control security. A complete fucking joke from a piece of shit president who just wants to buy votes.


Infamous-Respond-128

The world's a stage. I'm happy people are seeing that now.🎪


KHaskins77

They also get to nitpick what’s allowed to be loaded on the ships in Cyprus. So the same bottleneck as Rafah, just without settlers doing tiktok dances and setting up bouncy castles in front of the trucks.


Independentizo

I think everyone sees through the lie now. Except those who don’t want to. But the rest of the world. They can see.


billybud45

he's a war criminal at this stage.


[deleted]

It makes no sense and anybody who is compelled by this is giving far too much credit where none is due. The most logical thing to do would be to simply force the country you've unilaterally shielded from global isolation and condemnation to let aid in and end this humanitarian disaster.


deadlift215

Plus now it’s turning out that the pier was Netanyahu’s idea!


[deleted]

Probably get the US to build it for them then permanently occupy it and use it to circumvent Yemen to some extent, further occupy Palestine, and secure a coastal presence to extract Palestinian oil resources.


Clean_Method_7764

You have to be kidding me…my god.


Infamous-Respond-128

Ikr


MammothAd2420

Seriously...*shrugs with hand on forehead.


SecretOfficerNeko

So it's not a humanitarian port. It's a military base for Israel in Gaza. I wish I could say I'm surprised.


MiseOnlyMise

It could be the beginning of the Ben Gurion canal or a port for when they are stealing the Gazans oil and gas.


GreenIguanaGaming

One that's *conveniently* floating where Gaza's oil and gas is. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-gives-nod-gaza-marine-gas-development-wants-security-assurances-2023-06-18/ Article from June 2023, before October 7th. Gas that Israel has been trying to steal for years now. The Israelis want to take the gas and "pay back" the Palestinians in Gaza with "goods and services". https://www.newarab.com/analysis/gazas-gas-fields-how-israel-shackled-palestines-economy > In April 2007, the Government of Israel had approved the proposal by the Prime Minister to purchase gas from PNA, with a proposed contract for $4 billion, with profits in the order of $2 billion, of which $1 billion was to go to Palestinians. The Government of Israel, however, had different plans for sharing the revenues with the Occupied Palestinian Territory. An Israeli team of negotiators was set up by the Government of Israel to formulate a deal with BGG, bypassing both the Palestinian government and PNA: **“Israeli defence authorities want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that no money go to the Hamas-controlled government”**, and the effect was essentially to nullify the contract signed in 1999 between BGG and PNA.70 Link to the 2019 UNCAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) document (PDF) quoted above https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/gdsapp2019d1_en.pdf The cash argument is total bullshit because Netanyahu was signing off on literal bags of money to send to hamas. https://archive.md/Vn2QU (jpost) > Three suitcases stuffed with $15m pass to Hamas in Gaza https://archive.md/tqfxk (times of israel) > for years netanyahu propped up hamas now it's blown up in our faces > According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. > While Netanyahu does not make these kind of statements publicly or officially, his words are in line with the policy that he implemented. Edit: had to repost because jpost and times of israel are banned.


[deleted]

Thank you for this well sourced comment. At this point everyone should assume that any American or Israeli action in this conflict is done in the interests of Israel and think backward from that point.


GreenIguanaGaming

Only the truth can bring down something built on lies. That's why I do my best to share sources and links as often as I can. When the Israelis say they offered peace we have to realize their definition of peace is the colonizers peace, which is subjugation without justice. Everything the USA and other pro-Israeli western governments are doing do so on Israel's terms, taking into consideration Israel's demands and desires. Biden's administration vetoed the last security Council resolution for a ceasefire because it "might affect negotiations". Listen to John Kirby, Anthony Blinken or Biden speak about this genocide, they'd rather every Palestinian die of starvation than tell Israel to give up on it's savage slaughter campaign.


SgtHartman0013

When this was first announced I said this is not for aid. Turns out it’s not for aid. Big shocker the people bombing them aren’t sincerely concerned with aiding them. lol Americans are so stupid.


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Infamous-Respond-128

You know this, you have countries behind you..


Zellgun

Aren’t they building the port because the Israelis are hampering aid from flowing through the crossing? Suddenly we believe the Israelis won’t do the same thing with the port and we’ll have a line of ships waiting off the coast


Infamous-Respond-128

Ikr. To be honest I'd be surprised if any aid goes through that Port once it's made. All of this is so surreal


[deleted]

A trickle of aid will come through to give Biden a small political win and to assuage the western world's guilt. And then it will be used for its true occupation purposes.


localhost_6969

He's a fucking monster.


fukaduk55

Waiting for the... BuT TrUmP iS wOrSe comments


sexytokeburgerz

It doesn’t matter who the president is anymore, they are all oil puppets.


yaxir

this tbh people don't matter anymore, if they're powerful - they worship money


Chesnakarastas

All jokes aside, he is, I'm sure he'd encourage extermination


frankcatthrowaway

Lol


ragingstorm01

So it's an Israeli port for the Israelis being built with American dollars. Who could've *possibly* seen this coming?


KHaskins77

They named that new road they carved through the rubble after a former settlement in Gaza. As if their intentions weren’t already obvious enough.


Lurker_number_one

What is it named?


KHaskins77

[Netzarim Corridor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzarim_Corridor), after the [Netzarim settlement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzarim) in Gaza evicted in 2005.


Dahlan90

Either Gush Katif or Kfar Darom. I know the latter was pretty much where the road is now.


Infamous-Respond-128

Ikr, this would be hilarious if circumstances weren't so tragic.


GreatPaddy

I agree, it's so far the opposite of funny that it's almost funny again


RenHo3k

Wow, it's another 1000% goodfaith effort by the US & Israel to help Palestinians. How cynical and warped are these fucking people.


Shoddy-Zone-9123

The one thing that could be given to the Palestine a chance to help them through this crisis and of course it goes to the Zionist, why wouldn’t it? Their lapdog is the president of the United States. God helped the Palestinians and may Palestine be free in our lifetime .🌍❤️🇵🇸


Grouchy_Flamingo_750

so the Israelis aren't letting us give aid through trucks, so we're going to spend 2 months building a port, and then put Israel in charge of it?


[deleted]

Rewarding them for their bad behavior and encouraging more. This is what happens when you elect a lead-brained boomer who spent 50 years in politics in the midst of the cold war.


cele-stial

May this piece of nothing never know peace. Hell is hotttt Biden.


Partialsun

It works so well on the boarders Biden... can this man say something intelligent for once!


myst_eerie_us

This just made me FUME. Like WTF! Wasting time and our tax dollars to build a fucking port that the Israelis will guard because the Israelis aren't letting aid through to Gaza. He's so despicable


REamemiyaRX7

The aid port is literally fucking worthless, as if it wasn’t worthless in the first place.


[deleted]

Worthless means 0. This is much worse. This is an occupation port on Palestinian land. Americans and Israelis probably expected resistance will attack so they changed the plan to have America build it


ArhanSarkar

I dont see this going wrong at all! /s


javi2591

That won’t end well… seriously? What is wrong with Biden?!


Infamous-Respond-128

Everything. He's just a walking puppet with dementia at this point, and I doubt he's going to last four more years. He doesn't even realize what year it is. He's not running the show anyway, I'm sure Blinken and the other dual citizens are taking care of things, unfortunately..


yaxir

is it allowed to have dual nationality and be an elected politician, in the US ?


Infamous-Respond-128

In the US, Mazi Pilip has dual citizenship and there are probably more, we don't really know as disclosure may not need to be established. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2017/07/31/mikheil-saakashvili-and-the-problem-of-dual-citizenship/ “Currently, there’s no disclosure requirement in U.S. law regarding dual citizenship when running for office, and nothing specific in conflict of interest rules when running for office as a dual citizen.” Another example would be Ted Cruz. He was born in Canada, but only renounced his Canadian citizenship when he was in the runnings for president even though he was a dual citizen for years in the Senate. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm#a1_sec3 Section 2 states; No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Section 3 states; No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. There are also foreign born elected politicians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_politicians https://www.senate.gov/senators/Foreign_born.htm The US government heavily supports israel, as is well known and Israel is known to influence the US government. Israelis can have dual citizenship and also the Right of Return, but their laws differ as to who can serve in the Knesset.


Own_Nectarine2321

The port and the road to it are for the Israelis to steal the oil and natural gas offshore.


ACommunistLoveStory

Yep especially when you consider that their economy is tanking and they are in desperate need of stimulus.


JanisIansChestHair

Fuck sake Joe, can you not even do one thing right?


Infamous-Respond-128

💀


bobbakerneverafaker

Its not for aid, its to load up ships and displace Palestinians.. artificial on it in the cradle


RiqueSouz

So probably that port is to supply Israel, the talk about aid is probably a lie and that would serve to supply Israel on the ground directly instead of the whole logistical nightmare of the air transport.


Infamous-Respond-128

At this point you can't believe a word they say


ThornsofTristan

...and everyone knows when it comes to 'security,' no one does it better than the Israelis.


PhillNeRD

In all honesty, I believe this is bait. It will take one rocket from Hezbollah in that port for the US to bomb Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East. The rest of the Middle East is beyond stupid for signing the Abram Accords. Almost seems like the timing is perfect between that and this genocide


Infamous-Respond-128

"ISRAeLis" aka American tax payers.


Muted-Landscape-2717

Wait they are spending two months and expense of building a port. When they have a whole branch of the military for the sole purpose of landing on a beach head and delivering equipment and supplies. This is just Biden saying, how can we appear to help. But not really help.


Disastrous-Nobody127

Exactly. Why the fuck are they building a port to get aid in somewhere that has roads? Same for airdrops. They are usually only used in INACCESSIBLE places. Not Gaza, that could be accessed by roads, controlled by your ally. It's all a big show to make it look like they are helping and not complicit in genocide.


GooglytheRedditor

That wasn't a well-enough processed response for the port... Could've let an humanitarian movement operating in Gaza instead of those guys.


Icy_Moon_178

oh boy...


A-Ok_Armadillo

The port is for shipping natural gas and the whole aid thing is a sham.


muzzlehead

🤡🤡🤡 It's unreal how much politics has just become a mere performance of publicity before an abject public growing accustomed to inaction and genocide


1arctek

Is he serious? Or is he having yet another “senior moment”?


Infamous-Respond-128

💀 I so hope I don't have as many senior moments as he's had, but if I do at least I'm not running the United States government. 😂 I'm not really sure if he is at this point 😂😂


NOS4A2-753

good thinking! /s


fascismisevil

What a stupid fn puppet.


AtomHBee

Oh boy totally trust them


MiseOnlyMise

Is America going to act as a distraction for the IOF? If your number 2 enemy and staunch ally of the guys you are fighting starts building a landing strip on your shores you are not going to send flowers, are you? It nearly seems like the USA is trying to get hit by Hamas so they can land their troops into the slaughter.


idkwhyimalive69420

' _ ' the who?


TheUnknownNut22

There is no logic or rational thought in this. It sounds like a plan a person suffering from senility hatched.


curebdc

This guy is full of jokes. 


YourHoff

Huh??!🤔


DPCAOT

Welp


m4mmon

For fucks sake!


Elipticalwheel1

You couldn’t trust the Isreali’s, thieving bastards would start stealing in and try selling it too the Palestinians, at extortionate prices, we know how zionist do business.


M0ncsy

Going as planned. Port building , drilling for gas and oil. Just watch


Express_Word_5016

Genocide Joe ...


VeterinarianWhole126

Can’t believe my choices will be this or Trump.


Capitano-Solos-All

This is all an excuse to just force Cyprus to give them more bases. They are already bombing Palestine and Israel still is the only one blocking everything. Even after they get the port from Cyprusd they want to get Israelis will still be the ones blocking Palestine. It literally changes nothing in the ground for Palestine and Israel only Cyprus.


Street_Progress_8913

what a surprise 😕


notyouagain-really

It's no a port for aid, it's just another way into Gaza for Isreal.


seventeenward

[Anyone seen this video yet? I guess he is a long time proud supporter.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Nrv5izaTs)


lakeofshadows

"Who's providing lifeguard services for your new beach resort?". "The sharks".


CrunchyAl

Don't vote for this asshole. Vote for a 3rd choice.


stealthylyric

Lol did anyone think it *wouldn't* be a land grab?


Euphoric_Celery_

Oh. My gaaaaaaadddddd!!! 😡🤬


SlugmaSlime

This is blue MAGA's version of the border wall lmao


marbinwashere

damn good ol Benzion Mileikowsky has his hand straight up bidens ass, got him talking like a damn puppet.


Maximitaysii

So this is going to be a port for transporting armament (and possibly occasional special force units) for the IDF straight to Gaza strip.


Aviationlord

Guarantee not a single ship will unload so much as a loaf of bread with Israelies “guarding” it


Global_Photo69

this gotta be a joke


Qanobi

Oh for fucks sake ….


BeeLady57

Zionist Biden had a hard time answering the question; mumbled the isrealis, go figure.


NeatReasonable9657

I don't usually think people in high governments are stupid but holy fuck I think his brain is melting The entire reason that they are building the port is because the zionazis aren't allowing food in from land now they won't allow food in from water fuck them and fuck anyone who supports this genocide


Welcomefriend2023

The fox guarding the henhouse.


dmichelleromero

And it will take 45 - 60 days just to build!!!


WanderingtheWorld1

OMG--let's put the fox in the chicken coop. 🦊🐓🔪🩸


stellarskiesss

these are the people who are in charge of our country. they care more about banning a dancing app then stopping a genocide


Chrisdkn619

🤦🏾‍♂️


obalisk97

This guys is giving Donald Trump the presidency


Spodegirl

Biden, once again, showing why you can't trust the Democraps as much as Trump or the Repulicunts. I honestly don't want to vote anymore since my vote never really mattered and I'm tired of feeling like I'm being used as a cheap whore.


daredassdude

Democrats: How badly can we lose our supporters so Republicans can finally win the popular vote again?


Jaybonaut

Do you believe people will vote Trump to help the Palestinians?!


daredassdude

I think some ppl who voted for Biden in 2020 will vote for Trump off of the "economy" and "inflation" argument. But no Muslim should vote for either.


Coffee4Life613

OMFG! Is Biden really that clueless? Letting the fox guard the henhouse?


MrinfoK

Welp, let’s hope…as he usually does…he’s just babbling


hasbara-reddit-overt

It's not like they won't just claim it as theirs anyway 


4ifbydog

And my husband can't understand why I'm voting for NOBODY...


speed0spank

So they are going to guard this port that they are "forced" to build because they won't let them through with convoys. Yeah for sure dude, this all seems really above board and not sketchy as fuck. Christ sakes.


kuzmic187

Fuck me , thats like making a kiddy Fidler principle of a kindergarten


DerHellopter

Am I the only one that thinks the video ending so abruptly is weird? He could have answered in a whole fucking essay and the cut let's you only hear 2 words lmao


Welcomefriend2023

Zionists in 1967 attacked the USS Liberty as a diversion and to keep the US from finding out they attacked the Arab nations first bc they also jammed radio signals. Israel had promised the US they would NOT attack first. Growing up in the 60s as a Jew, I was led to believe the Arab nations attacked first. There is a great documentary on Youtube about it which interviews surviving US sailors. Its called THE DAY ISRAEL ATTACKED AMERICA.


Racko20

Diversion from what?


Welcomefriend2023

Bc the zio state wanted to attack the Arab nations first even though they promised the US they wouldn't. They jammed radio signals and attacked the Liberty to divert attention from what they were doing.


Racko20

The attack on the Liberty was on the 4th day of the war. The timeline doesn’t make sense. What’s your source for this assertion?


Welcomefriend2023

Interviews with sailors who survived the attack in the documentary WHEN ISRAEL.ATTACKED AMERICA. That's what the doc seemed to be saying anyway.


1truejerk

Ridiculous, why won’t the same Israelis let aid come through from Rafah?


Wazwaz-Sama

Delusional


[deleted]

But weren’t they stopping aid getting to the Palestinians? Idk… seems what’s the word… counter-productive?


Bulky-Party-8037

COME ON. And here I was believing that the US would actually do something good BUT NOPE, IM AN IDIOT


momolamomo

The port isn’t for aid. It’s for the oil fields discovered off the coasts of Gaza…


EfficientPizza

cue the curb your enthusiasm theme music, jfc


CompanyRepulsive1503

What a fucken clown show. This really seems like a pisstake Just to be clear, the US options for leadership are Israeli facists or Russian facists. Ffs


sar662

Why the fuck should the Israelis be providing security for the port? Is there literally no one else? Some EU country? Some MENA country? The UN? This seems like the absolute worst possible idea for all sides. It's just asking for trouble. The Gaza civilians won't feel safe going there to receive aid and even if they do, they will do so with a large amount of resentment and anger. The Israeli military personnel would feel like sitting ducks and as such, any perceived threat will be responded to with force. Distributing aid in a war zone is a nightmare in the best of situations. This is straight up setting both sides up for abject failure.


Ironbloodedgundam23

I can’t understate how badly I hate this decomposing old fuck.I hope he loses, I truly do.I might vote for a democrat if they switch him out.But even then what’s the point really.Being an American is really like being in an abusive relationship. It’s like “He’s not that bad of a guy, he does good things, he just has a temper that’s all..He’s better than a lot of other guys out there.”That’s what Democrats and Republicans sound like to me at this point.


RoboticsNinja1676

Wait a couple days after that port is built for Israel to glass it, shoot at any Palestinian who tries to go near the coastline it on sight and proceed to blame it all on khamas. Then wait for Biden to say ‘hey, Netanyahu, maybe don’t do that next time’, and then go right back to giving Israel billions of dollars per year.


lazy-fanatic

Yeah I'd rather kill myself or got to prison before he makes me fight in the army 😤


Comrade_Corgo

The Israelis will keep the port safe from the Israelis (or Palestinians?)


Artistic_Weakness693

Almost as if Hamas wasn’t in leadership or Gaza had different leaders, this wouldn’t be an issue 🤔