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@Brother Nature did your great grandfather share with you any stories about all the times he had French Vanilla coffee in Dachau?
A.) The display in the video is from recent air drops.
B). The air drops in reference come following close to a 20-year blockade and now 4-5 months of extremely limited supplies and starvation, and a lack of resources in general, to include basic medical supplies.
C.) I've eaten many an MRE back in the day. Have you? They're not a deluxe meal by any stretch, and that French Vanilla (instant) Coffee packet ain't Starbuck's by a long shot.
D.) This is surplus military field food the US Government had lying about, that the US troops themselves make fun of the quality regularly. (We've used them for emergency survival rations in the bush, begrudgingly. Yes, I can tell you about the more palatable meals if you'd like, and even they are nothing to pine for).
E.) Not to be too petty when speaking re. starving peoples' needs, but I wonder how many of those MREs meet dietary standards for a devout Muslim?
Cannavore's right. You're stretching and groping in this effort to minimize the established and proven suffering of those in Palestine/Gaza, and more illuminated by taking the presence of such random government-sourced meals out of their time-line context, and the conditions that existed up until the air drops, as though those many months and years of being strangled for supplies or movement are erased by some instant French Vanilla coffee last week.
Then I read the posts of the 'pacifists' who advocate for Palestine/Hamas to disarm/drop their weapons, but no similar call for disarmament of Israel, who has a longer track record of initiating the violence in that region for over 75-years, a longer (singular) track record for land theft, as well as systemic rape, unprosecuted murders of Palestinians, etc., but it's people like me allegedly pushing the violence.
And the forehead-slapping over the assertions that the 'settlers' are not civilians. When even in the US, a contractor to the government is the same as the government entity that is contracting with them in re. to the laws and expectations. (And the settlers have been subsidized AND armed by the US indirectly, and Bibi's goons, more directly, as they plan to take even more Palestinian land and homes in violation of international law(s)). The 'settlers' (government contracted thieves and murderers) are HARDLY mere civilians. Can't have the cake and eat it too. Even Israel regards the bulldozing of Palestinian homes as 'combat operations', by the way. Mostly because they're self-serving drama queens and pussies.
'Apologists' is right. Quite accurate, really.
And yes, hypocritical on those persons' parts. At least Ukraine, for whom some/many of those same people, apparently lacking in personal insight into themselves or a modest understanding of the history, who have posted pro-violence statements about repelling Russia, well.... Ukraine was previously a part of the former Soviet Union's turf. Gaza was ~never~ a part of the state of Israel, except for in vague religious references left for loose and opportunistic, self-serving interpretation by the Nationalist Fascist Zionists and their lackeys.
But for those of us who recognize the legitimacy of Gaza's self-defense resistance, we are 'pushing violence', and those who have pushed for Ukraine's military response to Russia are merely acting on principle, while they ask for Gaza to be disarmed and Israel to remain armed. Wow....
Shake my head at peoples' blindness to their own lack of self-awareness and implicit affiliations. I guess all of that propaganda the US has helped Israel/Bibi pay for has been more than a bit effective, by all appearances, anyway.
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