CCTV footage of incidents adds to concerns over military’s rules of engagement in Occupied Territories

  • timidgoat@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    10 months ago

    I hear what you’re saying, Bibi and his cabinet of whack jobs are currently the main perpetrators. However, if for arguments sake, Biden sat down with Bibi on October 8th and outlined very clear red lines for it’s military aid, ensuring any action that was to be undertaken by Israel would be discriminate and proportionate, we’d be in a VERY different position right now.

    Biden and the US military aid to Israel is not the only thing enabling the genocide in Gaza, but the genocide in Gaza would not have been able to happen without it.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      No Democratic voter is going to concede this, even though you’re right.

      They will argue that poor Sleepy Joe is an innocent bystander in all this and completely powerless to stop it, even though he could very well stop Israel from getting five billion in charity annually from us that directly helps them annihilate civilians in Gaza.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        No Democratic voter is going to concede this, even though you’re right.

        I will. They’re absolutely right.

      • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        10 months ago

        I mean yeah he’s definitely right.

        “Sleepy joe” give me a break with these toddler level insults.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          10 months ago

          Excuse me, friend, that’s an insult to the intelligence of toddlers. Toddlers can think for themselves and create their own insults.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          11
          ·
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          It’s not inaccurate.

          I don’t know why, in a country of 300+ million people, neither party seems capable of finding a presidential candidate that can form a coherent sentence.

          • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            9
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            10 months ago

            What’s not accurate is trying to paint the sides as the same.

            One party has spent 5 decades trying to dismantle the democratic parts of our government, destroy education, trust in doctors and other experts. so you can say stupid things like what you just said.

            This isn’t conspiracy, who do you think makes the things that ever made this country great in the first place? Scientists, engineers, doctors and where do you think they typically align party wise…shocker it’s on the left.

            Now go ahead reply to me on a device that thousands upon thousands of scientist’s and engineers worked together to make possible.

            If conservatives were the only kind of people we would still live in caves.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      I agree this take is logical and correct.

      That wasn’t ever going to happen though. In the big picture, America is thinking about Iran and the next 100 years of stability (or not) in the middle east. America is thinking about hundreds of millions of deaths. What a joke, that it would condition the aid that successfully effects our policy goals in the region for what could reasonably be viewed as a local police matter.

      If anything, it would have been counter to our policy in the region–which despite, sensationalism, emotional reaction, and ignorance–is one aimed a stability and lasting human rights. Israel is the only democracy in the region and is increasingly surrounded by enemies, funded by Iran.

      Do you think the prospect of tens of thousands of deaths is going to deter America’s global geopolitical strategy in the middleeast? Any politician in Washington, DC will correctly tell you that the most significant region of the world for global peace and security for the next 100 years is the Middle East.

      Iran would love you! In fact, it’s probably Iran and Saudi Arabia that’s churning out the Genocide Joe memes.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      10 months ago

      Biden could do more, but that last sentence in your comment sounds far fetched to me. Or are you saying that because we’ve been aiding Israel all these years, that’s made it possible? I think that’s a gross oversimplification if so.

      • timidgoat@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        17
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        I don’t think it is. If Biden cancelled all aid to Israel over this, I think we’d see a big shift in Israeli policy. Remember what happened when the US finally dropped their support of apartheid SA?

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          10 months ago

          It would be a big shift in global policy and would be grossly negligent for any US president.

          This view represents a serious misunderstanding of America’s and indeed the western strategy in the Middle East.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            10 months ago

            Centrist Democrats are getting the genocide they have always wanted.

            The Standard Centrist Gaslighting, the “this is too complex for your feeble progressive mind to comprehend” bullshit, is what centrist Democrats employ whenever they don’t want scrutiny of their positions.

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                10 months ago

                0.004% of the population dead

                How large a percentage will it take to satiate you?

                Know what? I don’t trust your numbers. I want a source. Show me a reliable source that says that Israel has only killed 0.004% of the population of Gaza.

                • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  10 months ago

                  Pretty widely reported. If you’re not familiar with where that figure comes from or how it’s calculated you really don’t know enough about what’s happening there on the ground to have an opinion about what’s happening on the ground.

                  Satiate? That’s a weird choice of word. I’m looking at the evidence and trying to evaluate it rationally. What are you doing?

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    10 months ago

                    Pretty widely reported. If you’re not familiar with where that figure comes from or how it’s calculated you really don’t know enough about what’s happening there on the ground to have an opinion about what’s happening on the ground.

                    Right. You made it up and are gaslighting me.

                    You made the claim. Back it up.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          12
          ·
          10 months ago

          Relationships are unique and I don’t think there are many people alive who fully understand the consequences of that move. It likely wouldn’t be just a “oh well I guess we call off the war” situation in any case.

          • timidgoat@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            10 months ago

            If anyone understands it, it’s the South African leaders who just presented their genocide case in front of the ICJ. History will remember them.

            • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              10 months ago

              Has history remembered Tomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah and other african leaders who fought for deconlonization? It hasn’t because they got on the US’ bad side. Heck, if you go to any subreddit and look for what people think of what South Africa is doing, you will see nothing but “We should bring appartheid back to teach them a lesson” among other really bad comments

    • Colonel Panic@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      10 months ago

      Biden could and SHOULD do a whole lot more to pressure Israel to end it. He should have said to stop on day 1.

      But any aid or supplies we do or don’t send to them wouldn’t make a difference. They have an entire arsenal of military options and resources and have all the control and power over Gaza.