Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to #Netanyahu, raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.
I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve #Gaza. His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to #Palestine.
I hope I'm wrong and it helps a lot.
I hope it averts starvation for every man, woman & child in #Gaza.
I hope it averts the deaths of the dozens of children under 5 who are presently dying from *man-made starvation* due to Israel's #TotalSiege policy - every week in Gaza.
And I hope everyone who celebrates this step, thinks about the reasons it wasn't taken earlier, even though it could have easily been done by picking up the phone.
The Biden Admin is still engaged in full-on planning meetings for a Rafah invasion with Dermer/Israel.
Talk is cheap. And calls for ceasefire are meaningless because they get walked back in the terms & conditions of the ceasefire, & who gets the pressure & blamed in public for refusing specific terms.
Erin Conroy
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