Ex-officials call Biden's Gaza war policy a 'failure' and 'threat' to US
"About a dozen ex-US officials who recently quit their jobs in the government to protest America's unbridled support for Israel's war on besieged Gaza have termed the policy of President Joe Biden's administration "a failure and a threat to US national security""
The article lists their names, what their role was and their demands.
"... there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israel is committing the international ‘crime of all crimes’: that of genocide."
"... while our government has called for a ceasefire, they refuse to name Israel’s crimes or take the material action many have called for under international law, including implementing sanctions and throwing our weight behind a global arms embargo. As Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah asked in a 2023 essay commissioned but then censured by Harvard Law Review, “does one have to wait for a genocide to be successfully completed to name it?” "
Which gets to the real point: this isn't a war between Israel and Hamas. It's a war between Iran (and its proxies) and the entire West.
Part of the goal is to create a pretext by which to attack Biden as #GenocideJoe, a fact-free slur that justifies helping Trump by sitting out the election.
That's the elephant in the room. Let's just say it's ironic that 10/7 is Putin's birthday.
On June 27th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment (269-144) that bar’s the U.S. State Department from using Gazan death toll statistics as provided by the only reporting agency on the ground, the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM).
To preface the decision we must note that the State Department has been using statistics from the GHM for decades and the accuracy of the reporting has been corroborated by the UN and WHO and most mainstream publications.
US sent 'Israel' at least 14K 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7: Reuters
"The news agency cited experts as saying that the contents of these shipments align with "Israel's" needs to replenish supplies used in its eight-month war on Gaza"
Banning US officials from citing Palestinian death toll 'disgusting': Tlaib
""I wanted to say how absolutely unconscionable that my colleagues are offering an amendment to prevent our US government from even citing the Palestinian death toll," Rashida Tlaib said on the House floor on Wednesday"
""It's absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial," she said, adding that she refuses to stay silent"
@israelwarcrimes@palestine@israel
Green Party for me.
Both of these fascist corporate stooges can die of old age and dementia before the election for all I care. In fact America and the world would be better off for it. #GenocideJoe#TrumpForPrison
Could it be because #GenocideJoe has managed to disenfranchise PoC, people with heritage from the Middle East, those who care about Human Rights, young voters etc?
Could it be because #AIPAC controls the current president?
Could it be because the Democrat Party offers zero alternatives to those who don't want to live with a #genocide in their conscience?
A friend who says he/she's expressing displeasure with Biden by voting for RFKjr, Jill Stein, Cornell West, or any other third-party candidate in this year's presidential election will no longer be a friend.
They'll have all kinds of twisted logic explaining that they're doing something honorable. But the reality is pretty simple: Those votes for spoilers are effectively votes for Trump.
WaPo: “Many voters express resignation, dismay, anger over being asked to choose between Biden and Trump again”
TOO FUCKING BAD.
If you can’t see what an existential threat a Trump presidency would do to America and THE REST OF THE WORLD, I pity you. But I promise, your world will be a LOT different if you don’t vote for Biden and not different in any good, measurable way.
Get over yourself and see beyond your own narrow interests. Voting isn’t marriage. You’re not going to find The One.
Here’s Why The US Is Unable To Secure A Gaza Ceasefire
The Lebanese dishing it out...
"..a combination of weak politicians, incompetency, cognitive decline in the case of the President, the Israeli lobbying efforts, delusional misconceptions about their own capabilities, combined with a racist lack of regard for Palestinian life, has allowed for Washington to bow down to the demands of the Israeli PM"
Juan Cole on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report issued this week on Israel's war crimes. He goes through the report findings with some funny quotes here and there, like:
"The UN is painfully polite, so you may not be able to tell that the terms “indiscriminate” and “disproportionate” are war crimes, of which it is accusing the Israeli government"
Really good article, as usual from Juan Cole.
Remember the BS lies of #US propaganda about #Biden warning #Netanyahu about attacking Rafah?
Netanyahu has once again showed who is the boss and slaughtering the besieged and defenceless Palestinians.
You don't hear him or his criminal spokespersons saying anything about the horrors of #Rafah and and the imposed starvation of half a million #Palestinians, most of them women and children.
Genocide Joe is walking in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan.
The last time didn't go very well for Americans.
Last time 70000 Lebanese lost their lives during Israeli occupation. And it gave birth to what is now Hezbollah who fought for almost 2 decades to kick out Israeli invadors.
The USA hasn't learnt a fucking thing. They just want a perpetual war in the Middle East, in order to keep their own weapons factories busy.
The Fascist Zionist State of Israel is happy to recieve those weapons and use them for warcrimes and genocide against their neighbours.
There is no right or left in Israel. Israelis have been blocking aid from accessing Gaza all along. Majority of Israeli oppose humanitarian aid.
#genocidejoe Biden has sanctioned one group as a token gesture but that's “...a little bit like there’s a raging fire, they pour a cup of water on it, and at the same time they’re providing gasoline to fan the flames…"
The temporary pier that the U.S. military built on short notice to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza has largely failed in its mission, aid organizations say, and will probably end operations weeks earlier than originally expected.
In the month since it was attached to the shoreline, the pier has been in service only about 10 days. The rest of the time, it was being repaired after rough seas broke it apart, detached to avoid further damage or paused because of security concerns.
The pier was never meant to be more than a stopgap measure while the Biden administration pushed Israel to allow more food and other supplies into Gaza through land routes, a far more efficient way to deliver relief.
Democrats approve $18 Billion arms sale to 'Israel' including 50 F-15s
"Regarding the funding, it is important to note that the report stressed that the weaponry, often paid for over many years, is "largely financed by the more than $3.3 billion in US taxpayer funds Washington provides Israel every year.""
The deal for the 50 US-made F-15...is expected to heavily bolster the Israeli Air Force's long-range offensive capabilities."
Israeli forces have destroyed all the water wells in northern Gaza.
The lack of water is making the near-famine conditions across the Strip worse, and most children and adults there don’t have access to clean drinking water.
"If water is life, then it's denial is certain slow death."
Video shows children drinking water from puddles & collecting seawater.
"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism"
by:
David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism,
Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
what the fuck do we do. theyve destroyed communication in gaza. they keep bombing. we don't even know how bad it is. if it was that bad when the world was watching. Jesus.