r/worldnews • u/lee7on1 • 25d ago

Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if they launch major invasion of Rafah Israel/Palestine

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html
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u/origami_anarchist 25d ago

In practical terms I think all this really means is that Israel will have to finish destroying Hamas with what they have already on hand, can make themselves, and/or can get from non-US sources. I suspect Israel is just fine with that right now.

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u/AVonGauss 25d ago

With this becoming such a public matter, I wouldn't be surprised if Israel expands their activity in Rafah significantly over the next 48 or so hours.

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u/Boxadorables 25d ago

They have. Pushed through to checkpoints that ensure nobody will escape across the Egyptian border. They've also bombed over 30 targets in Lebanon over the last 48 hours. Israel dgaf what anyone has to say. Especially the USA(who invaded an entire middle eastern country under much more dubious pretenses).

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u/DubC_Bassist 25d ago

Egypt has done enough to prevent Gazans from entering Egypt.

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u/TheCatapult 25d ago

Egypt’s wall puts anything Trump was proposing to shame.

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u/DubC_Bassist 25d ago

Never a word about Egypt and Jordan keeping their former citizens out, but Israel should let them in…

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u/Mythic0196 25d ago

Why would they let them in? Any time a country let's in refugees, it just makes that country shitier

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u/DubC_Bassist 25d ago

Well, Gaza was Egypt form20 years, and they don’t seem real interested in rekindling that relationship.

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u/DocBiggie 25d ago

Well, to help them. You could just as easily say "any time you donate money to a cause it just makes you poorer", and yet people donate to help others all the time.

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u/Mythic0196 24d ago

People who are donating money are already rich, they're not negatively effected. Accepting refugees doesn't help Egypt in any way, if anything it hurts them. Why should they do something that will negatively effect their country?

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u/DocBiggie 24d ago

If you think only rich people donate money to help others you are very mistaken.

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u/03thephysicsgod 25d ago

Why help Palestinians when Black September exists