The Biden administration is rushing to finish a high-stakes report due to Congress this week on whether Israel has violated international humanitarian law during its war in Gaza— a determination that could lead to significant repercussions and further inflame divisions at home and abroad.
“It’s clear that there have been violations,” one humanitarian official said. “Frankly, why are people starving and why did you finally decide to drop aid from the sky or build a very expensive port if you yourself had not determined that aid is being blocked?”
Well quite. If the report says everything is fine, it’s ridiculous, and if it says there have been violations: why the fuck didn’t you notice when the rest of us did?
Oh I’m sure he did notice, the question is probably more of “why did you keep sending them aid” to which the answer is probably something like trying to keep a stable power balance in the middle east since Israel is like, our only consistant ally out there, but considering both the abuses of power Israel has committed and the general poor record of US middle eastern interventions, I don’t think very many people will be happy with that explanation.
Well quite. If the report says everything is fine, it’s ridiculous, and if it says there have been violations: why the fuck didn’t you notice when the rest of us did?
Oh I’m sure he did notice, the question is probably more of “why did you keep sending them aid” to which the answer is probably something like trying to keep a stable power balance in the middle east since Israel is like, our only consistant ally out there, but considering both the abuses of power Israel has committed and the general poor record of US middle eastern interventions, I don’t think very many people will be happy with that explanation.
Consistently fucking awful, yeah. Ties should be cut.
You’re right though. Problem is the genocide convention which explicitly makes it illegal to do this and the US laws being ignored which say the same