cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25049986
Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Mariam Barghouti
Jan 21, 2025from Drop Site News
[you may get a request to sign up for free subscription]“Israel launched a major military operation on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, raiding the city with troops, military vehicles, and bulldozers backed by airstrikes, drones, and Apache helicopters. At least nine Palestinians have been killed and more than 40 wounded in the ongoing operation, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry, which Israel has dubbed “Operation Iron Wall.””
“I took the White House’s rhetoric at its word and found it to be naïve, and therefore the United States is not complicit in genocide.”
Are you still removing comments refuting Western disinformation about Xinjiang for being “genocide denial”?
It’s never to late to develop real media literacy or to understand how the US incessantly prosecutes regime change operations globally, but I’m not holding my breath.
Same challenge I gave the other guy:
Show me where the ICC charged Biden the way they did Netanyahu or Putin, it’s cool. I can wait.
In fact, show me which of the 5 definitions of Genocide Biden meets under article II of the UN charter.
Pro tip - You can’t, because they didn’t.
I’m all for blaming Israel for the Genocide, they are 100% doing it and will not stop unless someone invades and makes them stop.
That doesn’t mean Biden was doing it.
The USA says they will kill everyone who works at the ICC if they charge Biden. I imagine you’re no fan of the ISIL caliph, but you wouldn’t tell him to his face. Biden laps his kill-count during his morning coffee.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
I see, you’re speaking of genocide only in strictly a legal terms, as if that is the only meaning of the term “genocide.” Got it, Slippin’ Jimmy.
This is precisely why the US’s rhetoric is the way it is, because if they were honest about their mens rea then they would be legally complicit. The US pretends to be naïve to provide legal & rhetorical cover for itself.
Whether you are naïve, or only pretending to be, is an exercise for the reader.
Legal terms are the only terms that are factual and avoid what people feel about the issue.
Was Biden charged with war crimes the way Netanyahu was? No? Were US forces pulling the triggers? No? Not our dance. Blame the appropriate parties if you want to see something happen.
Further… and I said this in the run up to the election, Israel doesn’t need our help to commit genocide. Sniper bullets are cheap and depending on who’s counting, Israel is between the #8 and #10 arms supplier in the world.
All aid could be cut off today and the genocide would continue, because it’s Israel doing it.
The US is not doing this, Israel is:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_two_palestinian_children_in_the_head_in_the_northern_occupied_west_bank
Even after the cease fire…
https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-sniper-killed-child-in-gaza-1-day-after-ceasefire-went-into-effect/
Pure ideology. What a joke. The institutions of the state do not exist as divine arbiter of truth.
Biden is a genocider because he did everything in his power to provide arms to a state engaged in genocide. Given the level of dependence the idf has on us arms, if Biden made the decision to stop arming Israel, the genocide in Palestine couldn’t have been sustained for more than a few weeks at best.
It is just blatantly counterfactual to state that Israel has the military means to continue the genocide without us military aid.
Some stats on us-israel military cooperation
Israel not only received 22 billion* dollars in aid (the second biggest military spender china spends 140 billion per year ), but also buys almost all it’s military equipment from the us. Israel’s airforce for instance is fitted with us produced planes.
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