An investigation by The Independent uncovers the missteps, missed opportunities and political choices made by the Biden administration that allowed a famine to take hold in northern Gaza. With access to leaked documents, testimony from current and former officials and voices from Gaza, it paints a damning picture of an entirely preventable catastrophe. By Richard Hall, Bel Trew and Andrew Feinberg

President Joe Biden and his administration have been accused of being complicit in enabling a famine in Gaza by failing to sufficiently act on repeated warnings from their own experts and aid agencies.

The former officials say the US also provided diplomatic cover for Israel to create the conditions for famine by blocking international efforts to bring about a ceasefire or alleviate the crisis, making the delivery of aid almost impossible.

“This is not just turning a blind eye to the man-made starvation of an entire population, it is direct complicity,” former State Department official Josh Paul, who resigned over US support for the war, told The Independent.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      6 months ago

      I want Biden to stop supporting Netanyahu’s genocide. Why is that so difficult to understand?

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          28·
          6 months ago

          Why do so many people immediately assume that criticizing Biden means support for another candidate?

          • Xanis@lemmy.worldB
            32·
            6 months ago

            Because the Right has dug in for years, chosen a target, and collectively did their best to cause as much damage as possible to everything they can. Even if it hurts them.

            That’s why people like me assume the worst. It feels the same. Aside from that, a lot of people who are criticizing Biden are clearly rabble-rousers, another large percentage won’t vote for Biden and on the same branch will vote for Trump. All of these people are loud. Thing is, those of us with good intentions do agree that Biden has made the wrong choice so far, even if this last shipment is being forced by the Republican-controlled House, so I hope you all realize this one isn’t on him at least. The Gaza situation is shit. We know. It’s just…we also understand that Trump will do worse. Yet every damned time we try and bring this up in much the same way you’re tired of feeling as if standing up in protest of the Genocide makes you a target, we also feel the same.

            Many of us also see the pattern. Of division. The sowing of seeds to split us apart. It happens every time and we keep paying for it.

            Man, I just want us to come together. Get Biden into Office and keep up the momentum and push. Stand firm as one for change. For Gaza and, for once, for ourselves. Trump will never listen. Maybe Biden won’t either. At least with him though we’ll have four years to try. All we have to do for the first time in so damn long is stand united.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              23·
              6 months ago

              Thing is, those of us with good intentions do agree that Biden has made the wrong choice so far, even if this last shipment is being forced by the Republican-controlled House, so I hope you all realize this one isn’t on him at least.

              Source on this last shipment being forced on him.

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  21·
                  6 months ago

                  So it passed the house, it hasn’t passed the senate, and Biden can just veto it.

                  I get that you genocide lovers just want him to shovel as many weapons as possible at Israel until they’ve killed all the Palestinians, but let’s not pretend for an instant that this ties Biden’s hands in any way at all.

                  • Xanis@lemmy.worldB
                    11·
                    6 months ago

                    Ah now see, this is what I’m talking about. Rather than look at the story, maybe double check, recognize that there are levels and nuances that while don’t excuse anything, they at least provide some reason - instead you’re hiding behind Gaza again.

                    “Genocide lovers”? Really. I’ve said that we recognize, and I know I speak for all of us who are reasonable, how absolute shit that situation is and we know Biden has not been great at handling it. We are condemning the situation and his reactions up to this point because he could be doing more.

                    We just also see that we can condemn him and still vote him in because the alternative is an event that is likely to make that situation even worse, while also causing several other major fires to break out. This is the reality. We are stuck between a shitty deal and a genocide and we don’t need to draw ultimatums. This is why I remind people and push for the other option:

                    Vote for Biden into a second term AND we all come together for stronger actions to stop the travesty in Gaza from continuing. Biden is already showing he’ll roll over. Not a lot yet, he IS showing it. More importantly, even when the elections weren’t around the corner he was shown to bend to public outcry. What we shouldn’t be doing is dividing ourselves. It isn’t Gaza or Trump as separate problems. Invariably it must be Gaza and Trump. They are both incredibly massive problems and we collectively have the capacity to fight on both fronts. All I’m asking is we do that. I’m tired, man, and angry, because I feel sometimes like I’m yelling for positive change into the void

                    With Biden we’ll have four years to keep up the fight across all fronts. With Trump? I just feel we’ll be silenced, and that will help no one.

                    The problem is I truly feel like I’m doing this alone sometimes.