After promising that Hamas wouldn’t get the aid and denying that Hamas was taking the aid.
When the Biden administration pressured Israel to open up more aid to the Hamas territories, it swore that the aid would not fall into the hands of Hamas.
“If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, we’ll be the first to condemn it. And we will work to prevent it from happening again,” Secretary of State Blinken pledged.
Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer assured CNN that “the president was quite clear that if this assistance goes in, it cannot be misappropriated, it cannot be taken by Hamas fighters and so we are going to be watching that very closely.”
On Halloween, John Kirby, Biden’s national security spokesman, denied anything was going on.
“We have seen no indication, none, that Hamas has gotten their hands on any of the humanitarian assistance that has gone in. None of it. It goes from these U.N. trucks to humanitarian organizations and the U.N. for delivery to the people of Gaza. That’s what we’ve seen with every single one of them,” he claimed.
In late December, an UNRWA official claimed that, “there’s no hijacking of our (UNRWA) supplies by Hamas.” The official then argued that accusations that Hamas was taking aid were a “disinformation campaign” which was “aimed at the very agency trying to help people.”
These kinds of lies go through three stages.
1. It will never happen
2. It’s happening and it’s a good thing
3. How dare you prevent it from happening
There are numberless examples in the political arena, but we’ve now reached stage 3 in the Hamas aid lie.
The Biden administration asked Israel to stop targeting members of the Hamas-run civilian police force who escort aid trucks in Gaza, warning that a “total breakdown of law and order” is significantly exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the enclave, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.
U.S. officials say they are increasingly concerned “that Gaza is turning into Mogadishu” as a security vacuum and desperation have opened the door for armed gangs to attack and loot aid trucks, putting even more pressure on the Strip’s already strained humanitarian system.
Armed gangs? A Total breakdown of law and order? Who exactly do U.S. officials think Hamas is?
Months after the administration lied to our faces and told us over and over again that Hamas would never get the aid, that they won’t put up with it if they do, they redefine Hamas terrorists as members of the local police who are just providing an “escort” for aid trucks and killing them will lead to a “total breakdown of law and order”.
The alternative to a “total breakdown of law and order” is Hamas.
Here’s footage, by the way, of Hamas terrorists providing an escort for aid trucks.
And some more.
Hamas, much like the Houthis and the Taliban, appropriate aid, resell it and deliberately cause famines in order to profit from them, politically and financially.
We know how it works. We’ve seen it done in country after country.
There’s a larger significance to this messaging. The Biden administration is pivoting to protect Hamas. They’re redefining elements of Hamas as the thin line between anarchy. The “Mogadishu” talking point has been crafted and gone out.
Biden administration officials raised their concerns with their Israeli counterparts and asked that Israel stop targeting the Hamas civilian police as long there is no alternative that could provide security to the aid trucks, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
But Israel rebuffed the request because one of its goals in the war is to ensure that Hamas no longer runs Gaza, two Israeli officials said.
Go figure.
Rick Gordon says
My basic question is … ‘does anyone in the US gov’t (especially the State Dept) see these postings’ .
Wellington says
Rick Gordon: Very likely, but they will be dismissed as nothing more than right-wing extremism, Christian nationalism, far-right conspiracy stuff, etc. because overwhelmingly in the State Department and other federal agencies they are now staffed by very compromised people in the common-sense department, the moral intelligence department and the overall knowledge department. As an example, Robert Spencer himself is dismissed by the federal government and not even allowed into the UK, so foolish are the powers that be now running one Western nation after another.
Yes, this is how biased and foolish the American government has become and definitely a major reason why these rubes so oppose Trump who, even with his faults, wants to rid America of this rot and as he tried to do (somewhat successfully though ass-backwards Joe Biden and his handlers have done their best to undo the many successes Trump achieved in his four years from 2017-2021) when President and why I hope he becomes President again, though I think this unlikely because of all the evil and ignorant forces aligned against him, because in a second Trump term America has its best shot at reversing all the malevolence and foolishness which has taken over the federal government and so much else of America.
We are now run, for the most part, by moral idiots or worse (examples being Biden, Mayorkas, Harris, Jeffries and Schumer). As a betting man, immensely sadly I think this detritus of America will prevail. I would relish losing this bet.
BTeboe says
This regime is filled with liars. You should not believe a word they say.
Taffy says
Who cares? The whole Gazan population is complicit with Hamas.
The way Israel could’ve won this war quickly is to have locked down Gaza with a true siege, cut all electric power, bombed sewage treatment plants and electric distribution. Infrastructure, fuel depots , water works, etc. and sit there and wait until the stored water and food dwindle annd runs out and disease becomes rampant. Then go in and mop up what remains.
somehistory says
““total breakdown of law and order” The very definition of islam; which hamas illustrates in every way.
“They are all alike corrupt. There is no one doing good; not even one.” (The Bible) An appropriate description of what is going on with the U.S. government, the U.N., and mozlums…..for starters.
FYI says
The whitehouse “fool the sheeple” puppet show continues
{other puppet shows on similar channrls
Ukraine! starring vladimir zelensky.
The Vatican Circus Maximus with special guest Francis}
Biden And who knows what’s in THAT laptop.That’s a good joke miguel.I do respect mexicans
Abbas allahu akbar”
Biden Can i call you Marty?Steve it is.Ok Jim.
Abbas ehm
Biden hey this isn’t the nuclear football suitcase..this is hunter’s..where did i put it?
Noah Andeark says
Joey needs to earn those terrorist votes that he seems to be losing. The best way he can earn them back is by creating or helping to create dead Jews. It’s the only way. He is certainly up to the task.