It seems like Biden managed to make a deal with Netanyahu, his cooperation with US and refraining from lager attack against iran, in exchange for new weapons andcarte blanche for IDF in Gaza and occupied West Bank. Plus letting in just enough food into Gaza to avoid the famine charges but only to keep them slightly above that level.
I#DF have stepped up their barbaric attacks against Palestinians in #Gaza, #Lebanon and occupied #WestBank without any objections from the "world".
#Netanyahu did a great job, killing WCK aid workers and attacking Iranian consulate the day after the news about their multiple war crimes during the seage of Al Shifa hospital, bit only took the world attention away from that, but also made israel like a victim in the minds of the people in west against the big bad axis-of-evil Iran.
And on top of it, he got a billion dollars worth of free weapons and right to attack #Rafah as he pleases.
Isn't Biden a great president or what? He is such an amazing deal maker.
My county, Sweden used to be the role model of the world and a leading voice for the oppressed but now it has turned into a Trumpian nightmare with neo Nazis controling the conservative government. @palestine@israel
A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony #Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken any action.
Every other option is much worse...and #Biden is moving in the right direction. Lee the pressure on, but it's wildly counterproductive to seek a change of leadership.
CNN quoting a U.S. official: Biden informed Netanyahu to consider what happened a victory because Washington's assessment is that the Iranian attack was unsuccessful.
Ah well. I guess it's time to write the new check and send a few hundred cargo planes full of weapons then.
@faab64
He can say it, but it still won't be true.
Iran's attack was immensely successful, bringing the state to a halt - and in the last night, having all citizens take shelter in fear.
This seems to have seriously change the impression of Iran's capabilities in Israel - both citizens and government. And that change of mind/perception? that's a win; that, not a pile of dead bodies.
Israel's defense against yesterday's Iranian missile and drone attack is estimated to have cost more than $1.3 billion in aircraft fuel, surface-to-air missile interceptors and air-to-air missiles.
The cost of an Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile alone is estimated at $5-20 million.
PS. I'm sure Netanyahu's sugar daddy #GenocideJoe will send Israel twice that and more.
@faab64#Iran is the one dragging the whole world into war, by arming Russian imperialists and terrorist proxies, and the current direct attack. Let us not forget that Iran has been vowing to destroy #Israel for over 4 decades now
@faab64 it's worth mentioning that Biden's been actively attempting to starve Iranians since he got into office, too, via his sanctions regime. So it's my working understanding that he simply doesn't see Arabs (or Persians) as human at all.
@Shebeencounter
Remember the famous Albright respond to what she felt about the news that some 500000 Iraqi children had died due to American exposed sanctions against Iraq?
People act like these are unbelievable and outrageous acts, but in reality it's how they act
You think they need people to go and impersonate being Mastodon nerds? The Russian govt has barely even engaged in the infowar over this, and clumsily when they do. They just post videos of drones hitting things most of the time. Russian politicians do not read books like The Dialectics of Dependency, or NATO's Secret Armies. They have focused on domestic affairs and building rapport with other countries in the global periphery. Their trade with Africa & China has skyrocketed. Propagandizing Westerners doesn't help them when we've officially launched sanctions against them. Instead they benefit from cross-linking global south countries to build financial networks outside Washington's reach, which can also launder trade thru to the west anyways. When I say the 1000 year age of Europe is over I mean the colonial top-down system that persists through financialization. is being permanently upended.
The "little green men" thing also strikes me as a genuine motte-and-bailey strategy (not the way conservatives use that term to disparage anyone they find distasteful demanding civil rights). It's just a veiled insult against the people of Eastern Ukraine who have suffered through the "counterintelligence" strategy that evolved from British and Belgians slaughtering resistance in Malaysia and the Congo. They just tie people to trees with their whole family, often stripping them and leaving them exposed to abuse and the winter temperatures, or passersby honking at them. Literally strategies used by ISIS. And their torture is clearly descended from Operation Condor. Read at your own risk: https://sputnikglobe.com/20230721/the-truth-about-ukrainian-war-crimes-against-donbass-civilians-1112031958.html https://en.sputniknews.africa/20230521/1059381437.html
#Biden: #Iran is threatening to launch a significant attack on #Israel, but as I told Prime Minister #Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel's security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is an ironclad commitment.
#GenocideJoe broke his promises to Iran and now saying he will protect israel from Iran retaliation in response to Israel bombing of Iranian consulate in Damascus.
@Hash
Oh dear. Imagine being that stupid and blood thirsty.
Israel hasn't been able to get rid of Hamas in 6 months despite killing some 40k people, what would make you idiot to think Israel bombing some sites (big IF) will get rid of one of the strongest military regimes in the region?
@Morgawr@faab64@yuvalne@palestine@israel why is it morally indefensible to allow Russia to starve Ukraine, but it's fine to let Israel starve Gaza? This doesn't have anything to do with Trump. The Democrats are supposed to be better than this, better than Republicans.
A massive military convoy belonging to U.S. forces entering from northern Iraq, consisting of 63 trucks loaded with military equipment, logistical supplies, and MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems.
@faab64@palestine@israel This is an illegal occupation of a sovereign country. Very clear in international law.
I am sure that when #GenocideJoe realises this he will immediately withdraw all US forces from Syria, being as how he is such a champion of a "rules based international order". #uspol#syria
@KarunaX It is sickening to see people just accept this illegal occupation as "norm" but have the nerve condemning Russian invasion of their neighboring country Ukraine.
I am so sick of this disgusting hypocrisy of the so called "civilized west".
For over 5 months they keep talking shit that Biden can't do anything to force netanyahu to do anything, 32000 people have died, over 25 of them starved to death and when Israel bombed and killed foreign air workers, not once, not twice, but 3 times, they suddenly realize this shit is real and instead of standing up to the bully and stop selling weapons and forcing an embargo and sanction, they want us to become their cheerleaders because Israel "has opened 2 new entry points for aid" into Gaza and will allow 500 tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The disgusting hypocrisy and inhumanity surrounding this whole conflict is so disgustingly sick that I don't know how there are people out there who still support Israel's right to commit genocide and torture, starve and murder anyone they want, anywhere they want.
What a fucking shit-show sham. If #Biden truly had frustrations for #Netanyahu he wouldn't be sending him more weapons. Weapons Netanyahu uses to murder innocent women and children. 14,500 CHILDREN in the past 6 months alone.
This is fucking political theater and nothing more. #GenocideJoe is no better than #Satanyahu.