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   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:03:57 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   Amed Khan is an American humanitarian worker who has delivered relief to Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Congo etc.

   When asked why he withdrew campaign support for Biden, Khan says it's simple: "ethnic cleansing is where I get off the bus, right?"

   #CeasefireNow
   
   https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/deconstructed-podcast-gaza-humanitarian-aid/

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:03:53 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     i post this because americans need to wrap our heads around the facts of this:

     without US financial and military support, tens of thousands of palestinian children would still be alive. that is 100% on us

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:03:54 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     "I crossed ISIS to go to the Chaldean Catholic communities in Iraq to rebuild their homes. I went through the Russian lines to rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine. I will do anything, anywhere, for anyone that needs it, and that’s my thing, right? So, how could I be a part of this?"

     Humanitarian aid organization founder Amed Khan on why he quit the Biden Victory Fund National Finance Committee

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     wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:03:55 JST wet forest moon folklorist

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     "[The Biden State Dept has] blinders on, and they’re living in some kind of alternate reality that we’ll prove in the future was inexplicable...

     It was very clear to me from the beginning that the Israeli operation was based on clearing out Gaza. And they say this, themselves, the [ministers] say it out loud, right?

     ...the reaction from the U.S. is, yeah, it’s irresponsible. Irresponsible? The children are dead, they’re not coming back. They’re guilty of nothing."

     https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/deconstructed-podcast-gaza-humanitarian-aid/

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     Nick's world (gocu54@tweesecake.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:11:45 JST Nick's world

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     @seachanger Where does it stop though? Let's think about this. This is a war we weren't exactly involved in until we got ourselves involved. If you're expecting that we have boots on the ground, that's not going to happen, especially for Palastine because we're already friends with Israel. The problem is that we need to figure out how to make a more balanced effert in all this. We're not after all, the world's police system, and no, its not completely on us. It's on the terrorists who caused this war. We just reacted to a situation and yes, Ben had prior knowledge of this that he could have used to stop it but he didn't and now we have this problem. We're already helping Ukraine. Can't we just fight one war at a time? and I'm not trying to be uncivilized. I know its more complicated than that, but blaming the US for a problem not in the US just doesn't make complete sense. Hell, just getting people from the US out of Gaza was a nightmare on its own. Let me know what you think? I'm genuinely curious.

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     jhall251 (jhall251@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 19:13:51 JST jhall251

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     @seachanger

     You don't know that. Also true that without US aid thousands of children in Palestine and elsewhere would be dead. It's a complex world and simple assertions don't really help. Imo.