It's almost as if the west is actively helping fuel this genocide
Coincidentally water is wet
How so? 'The West' are many nations of which the majority have called for a ceasefire in Gaza for months.
It's almost as if the west is actively helping fuel this genocide
Coincidentally water is wet
How so? 'The West' are many nations of which the majority have called for a ceasefire in Gaza for months.
The UK hasn't. It hopped on the train recently. The US hasn't. It's only barely gotten to that kind of language in the past week or two.How so? 'The West' are many nations of which the majority have called for a ceasefire in Gaza for months.
In 2014 Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Gaza. Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, observed after touring the ravaged Strip, “I’ve never seen such massive destruction ever before.” According to the vagrant seated next to Professor Morris, “I think Protective Edge was 2014, but I’m just saying that the coordination in the military is pretty tight.” Was this destruction then the result of “pretty tight” precision attacks directed at military targets? An unimpeachable source definitively answers this question. Eyewitness accounts by Israeli combatants were compiled in a large dossier by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli non-governmental organization comprising former Israeli soldiers (“This is How We Fought in Gaza,” 2014). None of the hundreds of testimonies collected by this organization over more than a decade has ever been proven false, and all of them were approved for publication by the IDF censor. The leadership of Breaking the Silence is not conventionally leftist—it does not support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, opposes criminal prosecution of Israeli officers, and prudently fudges its own findings—while most of the soldier-witnesses themselves do not even appear contrite. Here’s a tiny sample of the “pretty tight” precision attacks directed exclusively at military targets:
Gosh I wonder whyThing is as long as (i) Hamas is determined to fight on and (ii) most Palestinians
are supporting them
So was the Russian Empire prepared to let the Circassians go to the Ottoman Empire, that's the point of a genocide, to remove people(iii) Israel is prepared to let those Palestinians who don't
support Hamas go to Egypt or Jordan etc; I have difficulty seeing a siege as genocidal.
Alternatively, as per the Hague, Israel is on track to commit one.I imagine much of the discussion of genocide is part an internal political discussion on the part of outside countries going on, to impose some sort of restriction on Israel when there otherwise wouldn't be. I.e. no one would act if someone didn't declare a genocide and so we must declare that there is one...
Perhaps that UN spokesperson should be equally aware of how language can be used to certain desired effects.
If Hamas surrendered, the Israeli-Hamas war would end.
If the Israeli government then continued blocking food supplies to Gaza,
it would be out of the context of an ongoing war siege, and guilty of genocide.
Thing is as long as (i) Hamas is determined to fight on and (ii) most Palestinians
are supporting them and (iii) Israel is prepared to let those Palestinians who don't
support Hamas go to Egypt or Jordan etc; I have difficulty seeing a siege as genocidal.
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Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says
State department assessment comes after world’s top court ordered Israel to admit food aid into territory
Famine is already probably present in at least some areas of northern Gaza, while other areas are in danger of falling into conditions of starvation, the US state department said on Friday a day after the world’s top court ordered Israel to admit food aid into the territory.
“While we can say with confidence that famine is a significant risk in the south and centre but not present, in the north, it is both a risk and quite possibly is present in at least some areas,” a state department official told Reuters.
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