What can Biden do right now, today, to avoid even more deaths of innocent people in Gaza? I am not asking what he can do if he gets Congress to approve a bill in two weeks when they return from their break; I am not asking what the United Nations can do in a week; I am not asking what America’s negotiators can attempt to achieve in the next several days. I am asking what Biden can do today about the starvation now afflicting 2 million people in Gaza?
Here is what I think he can do. First, he can take all of
the food on the aircraft carriers in the Middle East, put it on airplanes, and
airlift it to an Egyptian airport, telling the Egyptians to get out of the
way. He can commandeer trucks, cars,
whatever in Egypt and announced that the aid is being taken into Gaza,
regardless of whether they have permission to do so. He can tell the Egyptians
to get out of the way and my guess is that they will. At the same time, he can
ship more food by air to the carriers to replace the food sent to Gaza.
Meanwhile, he can underwrite the efforts of anybody, any organization,
attempting to help the Gazans and announce to the world that American troops are
going to take the food into Gaza. Meanwhile, he can cancel all military aid to
Israel until they stop the creation of illegal settlements in the Palestine
Authority. He can tell Israel that if its
troops fire on American troops bringing food to the Gazans, he will cancel all
further military aid to Israel for as long as he is president.
Will he do any of these things? No. Could he do them? Yes.