In late December, 77 groups — representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents — filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that Palestinian human rights organizations, residents of Gaza, and U.S. citizens with family members impacted by Israel’s ongoing assault brought against the Biden administration.
According to Law for Palestine, a human rights and legal advocacy organization, there have been at least 500 instances of Israeli lawmakers, officials, and officers inciting genocide.
Sourani said that the statements by Israeli officials, along with the actual blockade, the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian buildings, the basic lack of safe space, and the mass displacement of millions of Palestinians makes it clear: “All of this is tantamount to genocide.”
The plaintiffs responded to the administration’s motion to dismiss on December 22, arguing that there is precedent for U.S. courts to adjudicate questions surrounding genocide and that their legal challenge is about more than the actions of a foreign state. Rather, the plaintiffs argued, their injuries are “fairly traceable” to the actions of the U.S. government. “The suggestion that the U.S. does not or cannot influence Israel borders on the absurd, not least because the Israeli government acknowledges its actions could not happen without U.S. license and support, and Defendants have boasted about their coordination with and influence over Israel,” the plaintiffs wrote.
Man you can’t win as president sometimes. He doesn’t sell weapons to Saudis for houthi shit but sells to a country defending itself and he’s getting accused of genocide. Absolutely bonkers world we live in
“Defending itself” is a very generous description of what Israel is doing.
Israel aim to take down Hamas, not intentional destruction of Palestinians.
If Israel were to aim for a genocide, you’d see hundreds of thousands deaths and anti-Palestinian racist protests.
Israel doesn’t need excuses when it comes to take down Hamas enemy.
That must be why they dropped all those 2000 lb bombs all over south Gaza after they urged civilians to go there for safety. And why things are escalating in the West Bank, where Hamas isn’t.
That must be why they dropped all those 2000 lb bombs all over south Gaza after they urged civilians to go there for safety.
Provide source please
And why things are escalating in the West Bank, where Hamas isn’t.
Hamas has much less military power in the West Bank because there was always Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli-Palestinian security control
This is unfortunate.
It’s important to note that both sides suffer.
In 2023 only, Israel was attacked with more than 11,096 rockets (meaning ~30 rockets per day, whole year). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2023
Conservatives should really be running with this. It’s such an easy win for them. They get a genocide to satisfy their bloodlust AND they get to blame it on their enemy.
They could use it for their impeachment attempt and they could even demand he be arrested and tried in the Hague. Thankfully, conservatives are stupid as fuck and can’t see the easy points.
Yeah but they hate brown people
They also hate whites that aren’t the “correct” type of white. Ukrainians are “relatively civilized and relatively european”, for instance.
They don’t like Ukranians because Russia doesn’t like Ukraine. It’s not a racial thing.
It’s complicated. They like Ukrainians just fine. In fact, trafficking cute little blonde haired blue eyed white babies out of Ukraine is a lucrative past time for certain ex-Congressmen.
There’s a real racial split between Russians and Ukrainians, but it revolves around the East/West split between Slavs and non-Slavs. It isn’t something Americans really recognize and Republicans don’t care either way. The GOP aren’t aligning with the Russians nearly so much as they are polarized against the Democrats. And that goes back to the split in the CIA/military under Obama, which ties back to the war on terror, which really boils down to whether or not brown skin disqualifies your humanity.
So its a surprisingly complex racial thing, historically. But for now it mostly just involves taking the opposite position of the second-term Obama administration, because they’re the Not-Democrats Party. If Trump ever gets back into office, it would be fairly easy to convince him to be pro-Ukraine / anti-Russia, with the right collection of NatSec folks whispering in his ear.
Conservatives should really be running with this.
They’ve spent the last 23 years running on the “Arabs are scary and we need to kill them” platform. Why would they support a measure that’s anti-genocide?
They could use it for their impeachment attempt
If they’re going to run bullshit impeachment efforts that die in the Senate, why waste effort and pick a fight with AIPAC when they can just hold up a picture of Hunter Biden’s dick pick and call any Democrat who votes against impeachment a pedophile?
Makes sense.
Can Democrat voters get some pressure going to replace Biden with someone who isn’t a genocidal Zionazi? If you really want to vote Democrat instead of third party at least make it clear that they have to replace Genocide Joe.
There are some strong primary contenders but the DNC is corrupt as shit and refuses to hold a primary election. They’re even going so far as to call the state DNC offices and request that primaries be canceled or candidates removed from the primary ballots. There’s a lawsuit in SC over this and an emergency hearing is taking place on it today as a matter of fact.
All this from those who claim “democracy is at risk” in ‘24 elections.
Personally, I think both parties are far too corrupted by bribe money, and we should just back a new 3rd party. It’s hard to organize that when all of corporate media seeks to snuff you out though.
“The Democrats are corrupt as shit” - that’s some projection there, buddy. Another shit-talking republican/russian bot…
wrong, gross.
I invite you to consider Hillary stealing the nom from Bernie, Biden’s only campaign promise he followed through on being “nothing will fundamentally change” for his rich donors, or Pelosi consistently laughing off so much as a conversation about rampant congressional insider trading on the stock market.
Just because Republicans are open and proud about their corruption, doesn’t mean the 2nd party in a 2 party system isn’t also incredibly corrupt. Americans deserve better, and deserve actual representation in this alleged “democracy”
The unfortunate reality is that any Biden replacement would be doomed to lose to Trump. The degree to which many Americans don’t pay attention to politics is shocking, and because of that they’re more likely to vote for a candidate based on simple things like name recognition rather than actual policy
Trump went from a 1% vote to a victory in a short timespan without even having been supported in the beginning.
Democrats vote Democrat. They don’t just vote for Biden. Even Bernie could have won if the DNC didn’t actively sabotage his campaign.
Bernie would have lost in 2020, unfortunately
Good thing that the Democrats threw him under the bus for Hillary who then lost in 2016?
If you look at Israel as a colonial project of the USA then everything makes a lot more sense.
It is a settler colonist project, but it was first sponsored by Britain and Western Europe. The US didn’t come into play until later.
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe has a huge amount of info on Palestine and the Zionists movement all the way from the 1920s to the present day if you want to learn more. I’m still trying to get thru it all
Lol notice how the adminisitration made a motion to dismiss. Imagine if you could do whatever you wanted and when they sent the papers for your court date you could just dismiss them with the wave of a hand. Our government could slaughter us in the streets and their isnt shit we could ever do about it legally or with physical resistance. Land of the free and all that
Life sure is scary when you don’t understand things
