The Israel-Palestine Politics Thread II

[squeekness]

This is good even if it only stops the slaughter.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[squeekness]

Kind of like Trump saying he believed Putin wasn't involved in election interference just because Putin said so.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

White House says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

The Biden administration said Friday that Israel's use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, though evidence is incomplete.

www.scrippsnews.com

 

[squeekness]

White House says Israel’s use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

The Biden administration said Friday that Israel's use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, though evidence is incomplete.

www.scrippsnews.com

So stop sending them, Joe!

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Trump criticizes Jewish Democrats as he attacks Biden over threat to withhold U.S. weapons to Israel

The former president has repeatedly criticized American Jews who vote for Democratic candidates, both before and after the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[squeekness]

They haven't killed enough babies.

 

[blueharvest]

US finds Israel’s use of weapons in Gaza ‘inconsistent’ with human rights law, but will not cut flow of arms

State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations

www.theguardian.com

 

[DA_Champion]

I assume that the purpose of a lot of wars is partly simply to test and develop weapons for future wars.

 

[squeekness]

I assume that the purpose of a lot of wars is partly simply to test and develop weapons for future wars.

Of that I have no doubt. Weaponizing drones is the new state of play and Ukraine has a lot to do with that. Gaza is probably the new test site for that.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken declines to identify 'red line' for aid to Israel

Blinken said “absent a credible plan” to protect civilians in Gaza, the Biden administration “would not support a major military operation in Rafah.”

www.nbcnews.com

 

[squeekness]

Nothing surprises me any more. What WOULD surprise me is a captor of any race treating their captives fairly because it pretty much never happens.

 

[Steyin]

I've seen images. Looks like concentration camps. The irony is off the charts.

 

[squeekness]

I've seen images. Looks like concentration camps. The irony is off the charts.

The need to punish overrides sanity and being humane.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Israel pushes deeper into Rafah and battles a regrouping Hamas in northern Gaza

Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants across Gaza, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it cleared months ago.

www.scrippsnews.com

Neighboring Egypt issued its strongest objection yet to the Rafah offensive, saying it intends to formally join South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice alleging Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, which Israel rejects. The foreign ministry statement cited "the worsening severity and scope of the Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians."

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement that he cannot see how a full-scale invasion of Rafah can be reconciled with international humanitarian law.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated opposition to a major military assault on Rafah, and told CBS that Israel would "be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency" without an exit from Gaza and postwar governance plan.

Netanyahu has rejected postwar plans proposed by the United States for the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to govern Gaza with support from Arab and Muslim countries. Those plans depend on progress toward the creation of a Palestinian state, which Israel's government opposes.

The Oct. 7 attack killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 250 hostage. Militants still hold about 100 captives and the remains of more than 30.

Israel's air, land and sea offensive has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures. Israel says it has killed over 13,000 militants, without providing evidence.

 

[blueharvest]

Coons, McCaul weigh in on Israel report, possible weapons pause

A key Senate ally to Joe Biden and the top House Republican on foreign affairs offered different views over Biden's warning he could suspend some military aid to Israel.

www.google.com

 

[DA_Champion]

This video is awful.

 

[DA_Champion]

Touché !

 

[blueharvest]

How the right is weaponizing pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US

Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ‘philosophical divisions on Israel’ among Democrats to sink Biden’s campaign

www.theguardian.com

 

[squeekness]

This video is awful.

History repeating because we don't teach proper lessons in schools.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza

In a pair of TV interviews, Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored that the United States believes Israeli forces should "get out of Gaza."

www.scrippsnews.com

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[blueharvest]

NSM-20: ‘Inconsistencies’ plague US assessment on Israel’s Gaza war conduct

Advocates say Biden administration is ‘bending over backwards’ to avoid saying whether Israel is violating laws of war.

www.aljazeera.com