"The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza was cast into doubt on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to a 'partial' cease-fire deal that would not end the war, comments that sparked an uproar from families of hostages held by Hamas."
Netanyahu is still scheduled to deliver an address before Congress on July 24, & those who are opposed to the event aren't shy about talking about it. One of those members of Congress, Rep Pocan, even told Obeidallah that he was “available” to serve the ICC’s arrest warrant.
Pres Biden's advisors must see what Netanyahu is signaling. If the president doesn't make an about face on Israel soon, he doesn't just lose some young voters, other cohorts may stay home in Nov., thereby electing #TFG.
"A top Israeli security official says he expects 'another seven months of fighting' in Gaza will be needed to defeat Hamas."
Blinken says he wants to work with Congress to penalize International Criminal Court
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments were an early indication of the Biden administration’s openness to taking action against the Netherlands-based court for its application for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan also issued warrants for senior Hamas officials, including its leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
In a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday afternoon, #Blinken said he would “welcome” working with Sen. Lindsey Graham on “bipartisan” sanctions against the ICC.
“It’s clear Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection,” said #Biden at a White House reception marking Jewish American Heritage Month. “Let me be clear: What’s happening is not genocide.”
Let me be clear: - what is happening - the extreme, purposeful indifference to the lives and well-being of Gaza civilians is genocide. Biden is dead wrong on this point.
This is an extremely poor time to be sucking up to Benjamin Netanyahu. US politicians should think twice before acting on this war criminal's behalf. Genocide Ben is a huge part of the problem.
This comes from my United States Senator:
"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on Monday defended the International Criminal Court (ICC) for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant along with senior Hamas officials, breaking with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the controversial issue."
Sanders: ICC ‘right’ to seek arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli defense official
by Alexander Bolton - 05/20/24 4:23 PM ET
Oppressive regimes control & selectively remove media coverage, SM..., that keep them accountable. Netanyahu may be covering up more war crimes:
Israeli officials seize AP EQP & take down live shot of northern Gaza, citing new media law. The QA satellite channel is among 1000s of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP & other news orgs. The AP denounced the move.
"The Biden admin has said a major invasion would be a red line -noting that it could result in more civilian deaths. Aid groups -already having difficulty distributing much needed aid to the >1.4M ppl -current fighting: killed dozens of people in the last 24 hrs -more robust IDF presence now. 2 brigades, one’s a specialist in tunnels & the other one were the perpetrators of the WCK incident. Those are the 2 brigades operating now & in South Rafa."
Netanyahu's alliance with #TFG was known, but the fact that he did the IL PM's bidding, is why he'd prefer TFG to Biden in Nov:
"Back in the day Netanyahu asked Trump to support his request, sent via then-Mossad director Y Cohen, to Qatar, to get more money to Hamas. Trump agreed. Billions flowed. Trump was 100% all in.
#Netanyahu, under the illusion he's a Jewish Churchill in a bunker fighting Hitler, reposts his Armageddon "WE WILL STAND ALONE." 5/5/24 speech
-N Tarnopolsky
A hopeful sign for peace🕊️, a plan for a modified “ceasefire”: “Israel open to discussing "sustainable calm" in Gaza after initial hostage release: officials” #IsraelHamasWar
So for show. Administrative measures taken, but no acknowledgement of criminal acts of murder or charges filed let alone punishment for the same.
This was no accident. It is just the latest of a long series of IDF murders of Palestinians. This got a symbolic IDF hand slapping because MCK & José Andrés are famous, beloved & globally highly respected.
And your "what aboutism" is no defense of Netanyahu's unleashing of the IDF from all rules of war or law.
"Israel has killed more aid workers in the last 6 months than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years."
-Tarik Endale
At university of South #Florida hunger strikers for #palestine are entering their third week.
The university has instructed medical staff on campus to deny medical care to these students, they don’t all have insurance. Some have been hospitalized.
Through all this, the university continues to say they have zero control over their own money, and won’t meet with strikers.
Ex-Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence official #AliciaKearns, chair of the House of Commons [#SelectCommitteeOnForeignAffairs] said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all #ArmsSales to Israel without delay
AOC has supported Pres Biden & most of his agenda, though at times her views are far-left. She spoke for quite a few Dems & Americans on the House floor.
"#Forensic Architecture has documented the mass displacement of Palestinian civilians being carried out by the Israeli #military [… which] has repeatedly abused the humanitarian measures of evacuation orders, ‘safe routes’, and ‘safe zones’, and failed to comply with the laws governing their application within a wartime context. These patterns of systematic violence and destruction have forced Palestinian civilians from one unsafe area to the next." https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/humanitarian-violence-in-gaza@israel
The #IDF ground invasion in #KhanYounis has pushed Nasser and al-Amal hospitals out of service, in addition to al-Khair, the only hospital in the area inside a supposed ‘safe zone’.