Netanyahu’s office also said Monday the War Cabinet had approved a plan to deliver humanitarian aid safely into Gaza in a way that would “prevent the cases of looting.”
I’ve got a plan for that. Send more food. Just keep sending more and let the starving people “loot” them until they’re so not-starving they leave leftover food on the trucks.
Who cares if they’re looting food? People taking stuff without paying is the point of aid, and if that means the stuff isn’t getting to its eventual destination it just means you need to send more stuff. Hamas having an overflowing stockpile of food isn’t a security threat unless you’re intentionally using starvation as a weapon.
This is very naive. What if it’s not the starving people doing the looting? It’s Hamas or whoever had the guns, and then they get to charge the starving people whatever they have for the food they took. The reason to prevent looting is to make sure the food actually makes it to the people who need it
Then keep jamming food into Gaza until Hamas has filled its caches and has no more space. Hamas having too much food isn’t a threat and slowing down imports doesn’t make more food somehow reach the people who need it. Food is only potentially valuable because people are starving, flood the market with food and you both don’t have starving people and don’t have an income stream for looters.
This “what if people who don’t need it get it” anti-welfare mindset is stupid in general, but particularly ghoulish when you’re talking about food for starving people. Food isn’t a costly or limited resource, we can very much waste a little money on food that isn’t precisely targeted to the most desperate to alleviate a humanitarian crisis of our own making.
I’ve got a plan for that. Send more food. Just keep sending more and let the starving people “loot” them until they’re so not-starving they leave leftover food on the trucks.
Who cares if they’re looting food? People taking stuff without paying is the point of aid, and if that means the stuff isn’t getting to its eventual destination it just means you need to send more stuff. Hamas having an overflowing stockpile of food isn’t a security threat unless you’re intentionally using starvation as a weapon.
This is very naive. What if it’s not the starving people doing the looting? It’s Hamas or whoever had the guns, and then they get to charge the starving people whatever they have for the food they took. The reason to prevent looting is to make sure the food actually makes it to the people who need it
Then keep jamming food into Gaza until Hamas has filled its caches and has no more space. Hamas having too much food isn’t a threat and slowing down imports doesn’t make more food somehow reach the people who need it. Food is only potentially valuable because people are starving, flood the market with food and you both don’t have starving people and don’t have an income stream for looters.
This “what if people who don’t need it get it” anti-welfare mindset is stupid in general, but particularly ghoulish when you’re talking about food for starving people. Food isn’t a costly or limited resource, we can very much waste a little money on food that isn’t precisely targeted to the most desperate to alleviate a humanitarian crisis of our own making.