The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be “pulling out every stop” to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
“Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” the US President said, noting “hundreds of trucks” should be entering the enclave.
Biden said the US is “going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses”.
He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an “immediate ceasefire” that would allow additional aid in.
I’m interested along what lines those two states ought to be drawn (both geographically and in terms of polity).
For 75 years the conflict has been “your home is now mine, England said so” vs “no dude, that’s my home!”
I’ve been wondering how even a two state solution drawn along the lines we currently have can possibly resolve that, let alone one where two new national identities are lifted up to steer the two states.