Biden calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza
The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be "pulling out every stop" to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.
"Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough," the US President said, noting "hundreds of trucks" should be entering the enclave.
Biden said the US is "going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses".
He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an "immediate ceasefire" that would allow additional aid in.
He's doing the thing where he calls a temporary pause a "ceasefire" with the only leverage getting handed over.,. So the genocidal ethnostate can continue the slaughter at its leasure.
Sounds like a shit deal.
Netanyahu won't agree to a permanent ceasefire. The hope seems to be to get any sort of long pause then push to extend and extend it so it is de facto permanent (and hope Netanyahu gets kicked out of power somewhere in there).
So you’re supportive of kidnapping and using civilians as human shields? Cool.
Well they are only using human shields because Israel insists it's still fine to fire up on them if maybe they take out a Hamas member with them.
Like, we shouldn't actually be still killing the civilians right? That would be gross and fucked up right?
The only leverage Hamas has is to keep being terrorists? No. Hamas can either surrender and give up or keep being bombed until they are gone. It is the only thing still killing people in Gaza at this point.
It must be so exhausting to carry water for a settler-colonial ethnostate whose very foundations are genocidal violence.
Not really. Israel didn't build the terror tunnels under everyone's houses and then tell everyone not to evacuate. Maybe your thinking of Hamas, and it's regressive and religio-authoritarian genocidal violence?
And maybe you’ve run the numbers to realize that those “terrors tunnels” would cost too much to be real. It’s a good excuse to ethnically cleanse a region you have no right to.
Ridiculous take. Even Hamas doesn't deny they are real. Like gtfo with that conspiratorial nonsense that you pulled out of your ass.
Maybe you should watch the news before speaking. Maybe even a Google search. Then go away. Thanks.
Lol. Okay little kid.
Was that response even worth writing out?
You have zero understanding of cause and effect or you are looking at this conflict through a pinhole. Stop supporting and lapping up the propaganda of genocidal settler-colonialists like an useful idiot. Learn history and have some morals.
"Genocidal settler-colonialists" sounds like you've been lapping enough propoganda for the both of us.
I'm aware of the long history of two way violence. I'm aware that even if Israel stopped the violence now and forever, Hamas is still an ideology that exists as antithetical to democracy and peace. They'll still be stoning people to death. They'll still have zero elections. And whatever, that's wildly popular in Gaza. But when they leave Gaza and start doing international terrorism, accepting money and weapons from Iran and North Korea, that's not being very neighborly and I'm sorry but Hamas needs to go. They have no right to be terrorists. They can practice nok violent resistance if their lives are important to them. If not...
I will tell the repressed how to protest my oppression and they will be grateful for the chance for me to ignore them.
Man, yeah that always works out.
You're not aware of the history because you choose not to
Sorry I spoke too soon on your post. Should have kept reading. Applaud the effort toward fairness.
Here's a couple more for you;
Apartheid:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4343950
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41575857
Hamas Lawfare:
https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2023/10/15/five-ideas-to-counter-hamas-lawfare-strategy-and-why/
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/213546-asymmetries-and-proportionalities/
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/attacking-hamas-part-i-context/
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/idf-hamas-duty-to-warn/
https://www.justsecurity.org/89489/expert-guidance-law-of-armed-conflict-in-the-israel-hamas-war/
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214077887.pdf
The first paper you linked to basically makes the argument and it's not an apartheid system because Gazans are not citizens of Israel... never stopping for a moment to wonder how they ended up refugees in Gaza instead of citizens of Palestine...
Do you not understand that Israel stole land from Palestinians using law, using force, and using ethnic cleansing? Do you not understand that Gazans SHOULD be citizens and have full rights and tjat denying them this while also building a gisnt siege wall around a little strip is the apartheid part, right?
That paper sounds like it was written by a stinky slithering lying lawyer who thinks this "loophole" cancels human rights for Palestinians. It ignores how the West Bank is made to shrink under zones.
And also, Palestinian citizens of Israel do have it shit.
Btw turns out the two people who wrote the paper also wrote this one: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4087694
This is the kind of intellectual smut that you read... lawyers who want to make it legal to steal land from the native population.
The second link you posted is a study by a Zionist think tank lobbyist called Robbie Sabel
Yes... totally unbiased and free of emotion!
Is any article you read not written by some propaganda arm of the Israeli government?
Both those 'papers' on apartheid don't consider any of the overwhelming evidence brought forth by the Reports by three Major Human Rights Organizations, and completely ignore the International Law of the Crimes of Apartheid laid out by International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (Apartheid Convention) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute).
This "Lawfare" argument requires being unaware of the history of Zionism as Settler Colonialism, The History of Israeli Occupation, and the abhorrent material conditions Palestinians as subject to on a daily basis due to the Apartheid. It hinges on the premise of human shields. In bad faith of course, as it ignores all IDF use of Human shields and assumes all Hamas as a given despite any verified evidence. It's a way for US State Department Propaganda to justify its military and international support of Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign and genocide.
When it comes to human shields, the only independent verification back in 2014 (Amnesty link) is of Weapons (not rockets) hidden at a vacant school, situated btwn 2 UNRWA schools housing displaced people, by a Palestinian armed group.
The Guardian journalists had encountered a couple individuals in 2014 too.
HRW on Laws-of-War Violations 2009
Amnesty on Hamas War Crimes 2023
Yet none of those come remotely close to making hospitals and schools bombing targets. Even if all the IDF claims were true, that does not exempt those hospitals and schools as protected under international law.
While we're on the subject, let's look at how the IDF uses Human Shields including Children (2013 Report)
This kind of apologia for Israel, where you blame the violence imposed on the Palestinians by their occupiers to be the fault of the Palestinians, shows you don't genuinely care about resolving the conflict or bringing an end to the violence. Whether you know it or not; you're justifing the brutal occupation, the apartheid, the martial law, the military courts, the theft and extortion of water, the exploitation of Palestinians as a workforce without rights, the settler violence, the deprivation of human rights for Palestinians, the destruction of schools, the destruction of hospitals, the destruction of homes, the starvation of children, the execution of women and children, the inhuman torture and abuse of Palestinians and yes even children in Israeli prisons. You don't see Palestinians as human when you justify all this, that's the point of this dehumanizing rhetoric, to justify the human rights abuses and destruction of Palestinians. If you do see palestinians as human, the same as Israelis or anyone else. It's completely clear that this shit is completely unacceptable, yet it's been the reality for decades and decades.
Okay I'm obviously not going to read all this and click all these links, but what the hell do you mean by this:
Look at your television right now and you can see with your own eyes Hamas using entire cities as human shields.
Plenty of recent evidence of tunnels under cities and of Hamas directing people to ignore evacuating warnings.
How can you explain your double standard on this if it's not anti-semitism?
I'll start giving a shit what happens to Hamas when they reinstate elections, release all the hostages, and stop taking money from Iran and North Korea to kill Jews. Or maybe if they start following any international law: they can start by wearing uniforms and not purposefully targeting civilians, at a minimum. Until then, they are enemy combatants and not entitled to equal rights under the law.
And that's another reason why it's not apartheid, as cited by the authors of my first two links. If you want to say Israel is Apartheid, your argument is limited to its statutory laws that apply to Israeli citizens, not to non citizens; every country discriminates against non citizens and it's not a war crime. But suddenly with Israel it's a war crime? How do you explain your double standard on this if it's not anti-semitism?
Sounds like denial, this is a war on children by Israel.
If you want to know the answers to those questions, read the first few pages of the Amnesty International Report. It's answered there in detail.
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Children always make up a huge chunk of civilian casualties in war. Why is it any surprise it's absurdly high when Hamas is using entire cities as human shields?
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