U.S. Central Command and the Royal Jordanian Air Force conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict.
The combined operation included U.S. Air Force and RJAF C-130 aircraft, and respective U.S. Army Soldiers specialised in aerial delivery of supplies.
“Soldiers ensured the safe drop of food aid and built bundles. U.S. C-130s dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza, allowing for civilian access to the critical aid.
The Department of Defense humanitarian airdrops contribute to ongoing U.S. government efforts to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza. The DoD is conducting planning for potential follow-on airborne aid delivery missions.
These airdrops are part of a sustained effort to get more aid into Gaza, including by expanding the flow of aid through land corridors and routes.”
It’s absolutely tragic that supplies are having to be dropped to people like this when aids piling up on the boarder a few miles away.
You know what is tragic, is how the jundies and their sycophants never protested on mass when:
Syria was at war (31K dead in the city of Aleppo alone)
Yemen was at war
When Iran clamped down on its civil rights movement
When Afghasntan was at War
When Sudan was (and still is ) at War (7k murdered last oct in Darfur)
When Somalia was at war
When Iraq was at war
When Mali was at war
When Armenia was at war
Funny how all of the above have no issues when Muslims murder death kill, but when somebody fights back, why its think of the women, think of the children. Oh its Islamophobia , is it bollocks
I think it is worthwhile challenging on Gaza (2 wrongs don’t make a right), but it is definitely not Islamophobia when you bring the above up and push back.
Also protest have no place in local council meeting (what is a local council directive going to change on a cease fire motion?).
Also I think we have had enough process and at some point you stop allowing protest in towns similar to France. People living/trading in London/bigger cities need to have their Saturdays back. We have made the point and given the pressure to political parities.
Threatening MPs etc now it is verging on terrorism. Multi-culturalism has failed if people don’t integrate.
A nation needs something to hold it together. Since Henry VIII that job has fallen to the C of E but today they do not have the moral authority in a multi cultural society. In any case they continue to shoot themselves in the foot by focussing on woke and politics thinking that somehow it will make them more popular or acceptable. If you are selling something you have to believe in your product. Today I read that they want to raise £1 billion to remedy the effects of slavery. ‘Abandon hope all who enter there’ …comes to mind. Maybe they should merge with the National Trust.
Ozimandius. Yes repatriation for slavery will just get used by todays corrupt people in those regions and wasted, what about other African tribes, Middle East etc etc.
Sunak spoke about threats from extremist groups but he does not have a good definition of extremism or British values, other than parliamentary procedures. He needs to do a lot more work on the difference between extremism and fanaticism, on the role of incitement, conspiracy, subversion, disorder, security and rationality of thought; otherwise any eccentric with a street placard could end up being classified as an extremist. Just because you upset somebody doesn’t make you a terrorist.
If the C of E was doing its job it should have been the Archbishop of Canterbury making the Downing Street speech reminding the country how to behave and love your neighbour. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The government is hardly a paradigm of integrity and thr House of Commons is hardly a role model of grace under pressure!
Paul wrote:
“”Today I read that they want to raise £1 billion to remedy the effects of slavery. ‘Abandon hope all who enter there’ …comes to mind. Maybe they should merge with the National Trust.””
This subject gets my goat. In a nutshell a these people want people who have never owned slaves to hand over money to people who have never been slaves because of what happened over 200 years ago. Not only that but they all to a letter either ignore or downplay the part the Uk played in ending slavery across most of the world. But here’s what I cannot understand these people are more concerned about hurty feelings regards what happened 200+ years ago than doing something about Slavery today.
The BBC article on the matter highlighted their demands. The Church which had set aside £100 Million for reparations was berated by Bishop Rosemarie Mallett,(A black woman) who demanded that the sum paid for how the Church invested £406,942 in the South sea company (which transported 30K slaves over 30 years) was the reason why the CoE should hand over £1 billion to a totally black group who get to spend it as they want. Not only that but they want it now
Gee not much can go wrong there then (Looks at BLMs in the US who went on a spending spree as have others in the Uk)
All these people are doing whilst demanding to be treated as equals (I’ve never had any issues in the UK) is destroying the very social fabric of society which is needed for each and every country to prosper and live in peace. That mindset causes divisions (Looks at blacks only night at the theatre) and when called out, they play the victim card.
Ms Mallett is a good example of where the C of E is going wrong. She is an academic. Your taxes helped to pay for her to study a doctorate on the “Ambiguous ideology and contradictory behaviour: gender in the development of Caribbean societies: a case study of Antigua”. A really useful contribution to human knowledge, right? She represents a recruitment pattern in which C if E Bishop is regarded as an lifetime establishment career post along the lines of a peerage. What is required is sound theology and pastoral care skills, not marketing and promotion of anthropological nonsense.
I am with you on that one.
Using victimhood culture/mentality for attention/status or financial gain,
claiming you are a victim of historic injustice from events that took place centuries ago, it is the ultimate evolution of incompetence.
Equally annoying are the dopey white liberals who pander to such nonsense, and then try to force the same ideology on the rest of us, and if we dare to disagree we get labeled as bigots and racists.
You are of course perfectly correct in what you say. But it’s still wrong, just like what Hamas did was wrong, hiding under Hospitals is wrong, Israeli’s just shooting people on the West Bank is wrong.
Then again given the contents of the Hamas Charter what sane Government encourages people to set up home right next door and hold a music festival there. And apparently reduced the Military force on that border.
Any one else would have put up a defended wall on the border, cleared a 5 mile DMZ built another wall and mined the DMZ to blazes.
IMHO Hamas and Netanyahu are as bad as each other, neither can survive without the threat of the other. Both manipulate the situation to maintain their power base and both accept casualties of war in their own populations for that aim.
As for the Houthi well they are used to dealing with pin prick Air Attacks. Tell them to pack it in, if they don’t, then pick their biggest base within rumble distance of a City and send a dozen BUFFs over.
Tread quietly and carry a big stick, occasionally use it !
We should be delivering aid by sea, creating a safe zone around the Port of Gaza.
Doesn’t creating a safe zone mean putting boots in another Sand Box ? No thanks !
Yes it does. In my opinion this will have to be done sometime, ideally as part of a multinational force with the US and France maybe Egypt. Benny Gantz is in the US. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is on the agenda as a lead in to the post conflict governance of Gaza.
And then mission creep will start!first they will have to fight to defend the beach head and it will expand from there! No thanks.
The arrangements would have to be agreed by all parties. The need for aid is urgent and we should seize the opportunity offered by a Ramadan cease fire. Hamas cannot be the civil authority in Gaza again, but neither is anyone stepping up to the plate. A multi -national policing arrangement seems to me to be worth looking at as a way to transition. Maybe divide Gaza into sectors – bit like post ww2 Berlin?
Sorry mate as soon as a Palestinian is hurt or killed by an infidel you know it would kick off big time!there is no way any western forces can go anywhere near the place.
Well, not going to argue with your prognosis. There’s a lot of evidence supporting your view. That said, I just have a feeling in my water that this is some kind of cultural inflexion point. The US administration is openly criticising Netayahu’s conduct. Israel is losing friends in the west; there is a lot of sympathy for Gaza and people think this business has gone on long enough. We shall see I suppose.
Any European armies would seen as a force of infidel occupation by the locals.
Any Muslim country’s military presence would be seen as a threat by Israel.
Plus Hamas and Hezbollah would kick off.
We would find ourselves in a similar situation to Afghanistan, we went there hoping to help, but our mere presence offended many, and was seen as an attempt to force Western democracy on a country that prefers to live by tribal / Islamic ways.
It’s a mess we can’t fix because it all depends on the Arabic/Palestinian population accepting the fact that Israel has a right to exist and that the Jewish people that live there are not going to go away.
Take your point. As I say my idea would only fly if there is a shift in the cultural tectonic plates. It would be an act of faith.
Report on BBC news 7th March.
“President Joe Biden is to announce that the US military will construct a port in Gaza to get more humanitarian aid into the territory by sea, senior US officials say.”
So supplying Nazi Germany by air is okay.
You might have to explain that?
What there is to explain? The Hamas government is materially different in what?
OK, so you are choosing to call Hamas ‘Nazi Germany’ and think that the US and Jordan doing airdrops of food to the Gazan people on the beaches is supplying the Nazis.
You’d think of all peoples, Israel would be more careful not to commit genocide on neighbouring civilians. Barbarism does neither side any favours.
I think you need to check the definition of Genocide and who is responsible for civilians deaths…
Unless you think the coalition fight for Mosul, Fallujah was also genocide…or Ukranian/Russian fight…or Syria, or Turkey against Kurds…