Geoffrey Miller: Geopolitical analyst discusses Jordan and the UAE's overnight aid airdrops into Gaza

Jordan and the UAE have begun airdrops into Gaza to deliver aid. 

This comes after the Israeli military announced it’ll open humanitarian corridors into the strip and a tactical pause in three specific combat areas. 

Geopolitical Analyst Geoffery Miller told Ryan Bridge that 25 tons of aid was delivered to Gaza overnight, but that it’s up to Israeli forces to cooperate and allow the aid to travel into Gaza. 

He said that ‘they only really will help if Israel allows more aid to come into Gaza.’ and trucks carrying supplies for Gaza have been held up at the border.  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So you might have seen an announcement yesterday on building products.

(00:03):
Sounds great and there's a lot of builders I know
who are excited about this. This is where we will
basically follow international standards on products like plasterboard and cladding
and windows and external doors, all sorts of stuff which
should bring the price of them down. Mean that we
have more choice, more options. In theory that would bring
the price of building down. However, the government doesn't say

(00:26):
at this point by how much on average they estimate,
and they also haven't released the list yet, so that
won't happen until today. Curiously, they made the announcement yesterday,
but we won't actually know what's products are on the
list until sometime later today. Fourteen minutes after five, Ryan
bred Shordan and the UAE have begun air drops into

(00:48):
Gaza to deliver aid. It comes after the Israeli military
announced it'll open humanitarian corridors into the Strip and a
tactical pause in military activity in three specific areas. Jeffrey
Miller is a geo geopolitical analyst with US this morning. Jeffrey,
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to have you on
the program. So is this going to be enough? Do

(01:10):
you think to address the problem that is clearly happening
in that starvation, well, look at something.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Something is better than nothing. As the UAE and Jordan
dropped around twenty five tons of aid into Gaza overnight,
a look, that's a drop in the ocean considering the
scale of need. These two pauses, so there's a ten
hour pause of humanitarian pause or tactical pauses. W I'll
cause it in three areas of Gaza, and then there's

(01:40):
a seventeen hour window where it will be a humanitarian
corridor effectively allowed for the distribution of A. I think
both of those are going to be useful, but in
the end they only really will help if Israel allows
more A to come into Gaza. And that's really where
the hold up is. Around one hundred trucks apparently went
in from Egypt overnight, but they're being held up at

(02:02):
the border, held up at one of the checkpoints in
Israel is being very very careful in what it allows
into Gaza, and that's really where the problem comes from.
There's a lot of aid that is held up at
the border, is already within Gaza and to some degree,
but is not being allowed for further distribution and that's
what desperately is needed. Israel absolutely needs to allow that

(02:25):
aid to reach the Palestinian people in Gaza because the
scale of suffering is just horrific at the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Absolutely. It is one of the things that the IDEAF
always talks about is Hummas and what their control of
aid centers or involvement with aid centers and distribution centers
could mean, and also what's potentially coming in across the border.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, I mean, that's always Israel's argument that Hammas controls
the food aid and that weapons are being smuggled in
with the aid, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
I think we just need to take one look at
some of the horrific images that are coming out out
of Gaza, being shown on a nightly basis on our
TV screens around the world, and we look at those
calls from over one hundred eight organizations last week. I

(03:09):
think the calls really reached a crescendo last week in
Israel is actually responding to the pressure there's been placed
in it from the international community and some of the
things that have been coming out. I mean, France's recognition
of a Palestinian state is another point of pressure. So
it is interesting that Israel is actually responding to the pressure.

(03:29):
And I think we need to keep the pressure on.
The international community needs to keep the pressure on. Because
on Friday, the ceasefire negotiations and cut up between Hamas
and Israel and the United States. That collapsed and Israel
and the United States effectively took Peo ball and went home.
Steve Wikoff said Israel would now look for alternative options
to free the hostages. It didn't sound good, and just

(03:51):
within the last couple of hours, Ryan and Donald Trump
is said Israel need to make a decision. Well, that
sounds quite ominous to me. So I think we need
to keep our eye on on the bigger picture here,
which is those Ceasepine negotiations. And I do think, you know,
if we're looking at New Zealand's perspective, new Zealand can
play a small part in all of that. Wiston Peter

(04:11):
said that last week he said that New Zealand can
and must play its part. And so I think New
Zealand needs to think about what it can do. And
I think New Zealand needs to also think about its
relations with countries in the Middle East. New Zealand has
good relations in with the Gulf States alikes of the
United so I think Wiston Peters needs to be pulling
on all the diplomatic leaders here.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Absolutely, I appreciate your time this morning, Jeffrey Miller, who's
a geopolitical analyst.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
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