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The discussion is about famine. There is a huge problem in getting food supplies to distribution warehouses. That's because of a lack of security. Police are afraid to serve in Rafah because of the fear of Israeli strikes. People like you justified attacks on the police because "The Gaza Police are Hamas controlled." I don't think you understand what the discussion is about.

Fighting off Houthis for months, US carrier in Red Sea may be running out of steam The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is long overdue for a break from the longest-running naval battle since WWII, but experts worry effort to protect shipping could flounder without it. https://www.timesofisrael.com/fighting-off-houthis-for-months-us-carrier-in-red-sea-may-be-running-out-of-steam/

Whatever the merits of your argument may or may not be, it is irrelevant to abortion as an election issue.

As I pointed out, lots of misconceptions out there about Trump's responsibility for the issue so most voters may currently not see it as something political that depends on the outcome of the election. Let's wait and see what happens once the threat posed to abortion by a Trump reelection is made clear.

Not surprising that you would label the abortion issue a sidetrack. The thing is, lots of voters still don't understand Trump's responsibility for appointing 3 of the 5 justices who overturned Roe. Despite Trump appointing three of the Supreme Court justices that were part of the majority that overturned the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade, most voters don’t hold him responsible for rising abortion restrictions nationwide, according to the results of a new poll released Monday. The poll, conducted in December by the progressive think tank and polling firm Data for Progress, found that less than a quarter of voters overall (only 36 percent of Democrats—and, oddly, only 11 percent of Republicans) see Trump as “responsible for new bans or restrictions on abortions in states across the U.S.” So who do voters hold more responsible? Republicans in state office (33 percent), Republicans in Congress (34 percent), and the Supreme Court (50 percent). https://archive.ph/UpOC8 Once the campaign season is fully underway, wait until they get a load of this:

The Gaza government is, or at least, was Hamas controlled. So naturally the police are ultimately ruled by Hamas. Does that make them terrorists by contagion? The Hamas govt also had garbage collectors, tax collectors, a postal workers. Are they also terrorists?

Your takeaway is ridiculous. I took the article in which a relief agency official specifically cited 'much-diminished Hamas enforcers who cannot get control" as a major reason the aid can't get through. We know that the police are afraid to show up for fear of Israeli strikes. You'll note that the diplomat says there's no evidence that Israeli is trying to impede it. That's in the present tense. She does refer the effects of what Israel has done, namely the "much diminished Hamas enforcers", it's effect on the security and deliveries. If you care to go on being disingenuous, there's nothing I can do about jt.

And the links are even easier to post. And it's not always the case that there are links or that the links lead to a credible source.

It does say "much diminished Hamas enforcers". I think police number among them. And since we already know that police aren't patrolling for fear of Israeli strikes, what more do you need?

This is from the article you linked to: “As the IDF has stepped back, various violent actors have stepped in, to the point where the much-diminished Hamas enforcers cannot get control of independent families and gangs,” Leaf says, adding that humanitarian workers are facing incredibly high risks and that the US is working with Israel to ameliorate some of these issues. Aid organizations have argued that Israel’s continued military operations are the reason for the distribution bottlenecks, with convoys routinely held up or turned back at IDF checkpoints throughout the Strip. Israel announced that it would be implementing daily localized pauses to allow more aid to be distributed earlier this week, but aid groups say they have yet to lead to improvements on the ground. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/senior-us-official-says-israel-not-behind-aid-distribution-woes-in-gaza/

Where do the aid agencies say that the lack of police isn't a problem. This is from the NY Times The extreme anarchy that has gripped the Gaza Strip is making it too dangerous and difficult to distribute desperately needed aid in the south, relief groups and others say, despite a daily pause in fighting that Israel is observing along a key road there... The grim situation is part of the domino effect of the Israeli campaign in Gaza, which has toppled much of the Hamas government without any civilian administration to take its place. In much of Gaza, there are no police officers to prevent chaos, few municipal workers to clean up heaping mounds of rubble and trash, and only the bare minimum of public services https://archive.ph/EyDEn You think that there might be a relationship between anarchy and lack of policing? And we know that the police are afraid of Israeli strikes. And if the US contradicts itself, in a way that's transparently obvious, then, yes it's lying. Or, as it's sometimes called, diplomacy. As for the possibility that the IDF is lying...seriously? We know that they've lied in the past. What motive does it have to be truthful?

The Russian government has explicitly rejected that Russia subscribes to Western values. If you think eating with a knife and fork is a western value, then you have a point. Good luck with that.

I think they're lying because what they say makes no sense. On the one hand, in the earlier instance, lack of police escorts was the reason deliveries weren't being made. But now, the lack of police escorts doesn't matter? They're contradicting themselves.

Of course I don't. There are no police to protect the caravans from looters. The police are afraid of being attacked by the Israelis. So no deliveries are being made.Q.E.D.

Yes I do RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO, March 6 (Reuters) - Heads turned as the masked men with clubs walked down a Rafah street, part of a vigilante public security group set up by armed factions in Gaza after the civil police force went underground saying it was targeted by Israeli strikes. https://archive.ph/Qt9RM

Actually, no. Putin’s ‘Eurasian’ fixation reveals ambitions beyond Ukraine The nine-thousand-word concept starts by describing Russia as “a unique country-civilization and a vast Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power.” It adds that Russia “brings together the Russian people and other peoples belonging to the cultural and civilizational community of the Russian world.” In the Kremlin’s formulation, then, Russia is not so much a nation-state among nation-states as it is a civilizational world unto itself. .. Their culture is something they call "Eurasian" and quite distinct from Western culture. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/putins-eurasian-fixation-reveals-ambitions-beyond-ukraine/ "Neo-Eurasianism is the most elaborate of the various conservative ideologies that emerged in Russia in the 1990s," according to Marlene Laruelle, Research Fellow, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and former Fellow, Wilson Center. Eurasianism can be defined as an ideology which affirms that Russia and its "margins" occupy a median position between Europe and Asia, that their specific features have to do with their culture being a "mix" born of the fusion of Slavic and Turko-Muslim peoples, and that Russia should specifically highlight its Asian features. Eurasianism rejects the view that Russia is on the periphery of Europe, and on the contrary interprets the country's geographic location as grounds for a kind of messianic "third way." https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/russian-eurasianism-ideology-empire

Trump's idea was to irradiate one's insides with UV light. Now maybe your body is transparent to UV radiation. Not the case with most of us.

You should write up an article for The Journal of It's 'All About Me and My Son.

Actually, a lot of manufacturing is moving out of China.

If the question you're referring to is "Has it happened in Rafah?", then I have answered it. What's relevant isn't whether or not it has happened in Rafah but has it happened in Gaza. Ya think the Israeli armed forces are in one location are fundamentally different from another? What makes Rafah special? Actually, it can't happen in Rafah because there is no police presence there, as the NY Times article pointed out. And why would there be? Israel has never acknowledged it targeted the police much less whether or not it is still targeting police. That sends a message.

Since Israel has never ackknowledged that it was targeting the police, why should I assume that it still isn't? At that time, was the gate at Rafah open? Has anybody said it's not happening? Why is it relevant that it was at that gateway? At the time of that report, that's was the only functioning gateway? I guess, the argument against what I'm saying could be that the Israelis acknowledged that they attacked police escorts. And now they're promising not to do it anymore. Except that the Israelis never acknowledged that they were targeting police. In fact, at the time they claimed that the problem was that it was the fault of organizations inside gaza failing to get get those supplies to where they belonged. In other words, they lied. There is no evidence of a police presence now in southern gaza. Why would the police expose themselves to an attack by the Israeli armed forces that never acknowledged that the police were a target in the first place? Aid groups say thousands of tons of supplies remain stranded in southern Gaza because conditions are too dangerous to move it. "There are now thousands of tons of food, medicine and other supplies stuck on the Gaza side of a border crossing mere miles from Palestinians who need them, the officials say. The grim scenario is part of the domino effect of the Israeli campaign in Gaza, which has toppled much of the Hamas government without installing an alternative. In much of Gaza, there are no police officers to prevent chaos, few municipal workers to clean up heaping mounds of rubble and trash and only the bare minimum of public services." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/19/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas

You're the one who cites isolated events as some kind of proof. In a country with a population of about 70 million, that's not hard to do. The question is, does it actually have a measurable effect on policing? You've offered nothing to support that.

Another unbacked assertion. And still standing by an irrelevant post about Hampshire.

But they're not the ones railing against immigration. What does the unemployment rate tell you? And what about this? Immigration Is Fueling US Economic Growth While Politicians Rage Goldman boosts GDP growth forecast amid immigration surge HSBC says no advanced economy is benefiting like the US https://archive.ph/1jPBo

The big problem with your hypothesis is that high inflation was virtually rampant in all of the developed nations and lots of developing nations as well. Was Biden responsible for that? And, of course, before the covid pandemic, government spending had increased yet inflation remained very low.