Late last year, 50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determination related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
“Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,” he said in a December 6 statement.
Such a determination can have important foreign policy implications, creating a legal designation for international crimes usually accompanied by limits on weapons and security assistance, economic sanctions, and other penalties.
On a near-daily basis, a State Department spokesperson takes questions from the media and is routinely pressed about the latest atrocity alleged to have been committed by Israeli forces, whether it’s gunfire aimed at civilians in a church; the bombing of hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, or residential buildings; or the cutting off of food, fuel, and medicine.
All told, the U.S. has given Israel $158 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding, more than any other country since World War II, according to a March 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service.
These statements are inconsistent with the administration’s own conventional arms transfer policy, in which President Biden committed to ‘engage in appropriate monitoring’ to ensure that U.S. weapons are used in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law obligations,” said Chappell.
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Its not genocide when our friends do it
It's because the Sudanese aren't white or white passing.
Pretty sure that's not the key difference here.
Is it because an influential group's belief says that Israel winning in the middle east brings upon the rapture?
Yeah. I would've gone with a broader "Israel has influence over US politicians while Sudan does not", but that's the essence of it.
Evangelical Christians too, which is the direction I was going.
The largest demographic group in Israel, the Mizrahi, look indistinguishable from other Middle-Eastern people. You couldn't tell them apart from Palestinians or any other Arabs. Bringing American notions of race into this is a very foolish endeavor.
Mizrahi being the largest demographic is a recent change. Ashkenazi have historically been the largest.
There used to be way more Ashkenazi Jews up until the 40s or so. I wonder what happened.
Not true either.
While the Israeli government does not track ethnicity of its Jewish population, many studies have been completed.
Ashkenazi Jews were historically the majority of Jews in Israel. However as immigration from European countries and the USSR increased, the demographics changed. The majority of French Jews are Sephardic and many Jews from the USSR are Mizrahi.
Of the 7 million Jewish Israelis, only 900,000 immigrated from the Arab world.
So a completely false narrative peddled by someone who clearly has an agenda.
Today Iearned it's short for "State of Israel Department"
Well, we don't tend to make condemnations of ourselves, and at this point it's Biden & Blinken's genocide as much as Bibi's.
Blinken is just awful. It's beyond words what we're doing over there.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Late last year, 50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determination related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
“Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,” he said in a December 6 statement.
Such a determination can have important foreign policy implications, creating a legal designation for international crimes usually accompanied by limits on weapons and security assistance, economic sanctions, and other penalties.
On a near-daily basis, a State Department spokesperson takes questions from the media and is routinely pressed about the latest atrocity alleged to have been committed by Israeli forces, whether it’s gunfire aimed at civilians in a church; the bombing of hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, or residential buildings; or the cutting off of food, fuel, and medicine.
All told, the U.S. has given Israel $158 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding, more than any other country since World War II, according to a March 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service.
These statements are inconsistent with the administration’s own conventional arms transfer policy, in which President Biden committed to ‘engage in appropriate monitoring’ to ensure that U.S. weapons are used in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law obligations,” said Chappell.
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Its not genocide when our friends do it
It's because the Sudanese aren't white or white passing.
Pretty sure that's not the key difference here.
Is it because an influential group's belief says that Israel winning in the middle east brings upon the rapture?
Yeah. I would've gone with a broader "Israel has influence over US politicians while Sudan does not", but that's the essence of it.
Evangelical Christians too, which is the direction I was going.
The largest demographic group in Israel, the Mizrahi, look indistinguishable from other Middle-Eastern people. You couldn't tell them apart from Palestinians or any other Arabs. Bringing American notions of race into this is a very foolish endeavor.
Mizrahi being the largest demographic is a recent change. Ashkenazi have historically been the largest.
There used to be way more Ashkenazi Jews up until the 40s or so. I wonder what happened.
Not true either.
While the Israeli government does not track ethnicity of its Jewish population, many studies have been completed.
Ashkenazi Jews were historically the majority of Jews in Israel. However as immigration from European countries and the USSR increased, the demographics changed. The majority of French Jews are Sephardic and many Jews from the USSR are Mizrahi.
Of the 7 million Jewish Israelis, only 900,000 immigrated from the Arab world.
So a completely false narrative peddled by someone who clearly has an agenda.
100%.