The White House has expressed support for a major Israeli offensive that was launched against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early Monday.
“We support Israel’s security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups,” a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said, according to AFP.
Amid the ongoing raid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted US support for Israel, which includes $3.8 billion in annual military aid. “America has provided Israel with moral and political backing against those who would wipe us out, the only Jewish state,” he said. “Security cooperation has never been better; intelligence sharing has never been deeper.”
The Netanyahu government has significantly stepped up raids in the West Bank since taking power at the end of December. The government includes extremist settlers, and the coalition has vowed to prioritize expanding settlements in the West Bank with the ultimate goal of annexing the territory. The policies have sparked more armed Palestinian resistance.
According to Al Jazeera, the attack on Jenin was launched by 1,000 Israeli troops, 150 armored vehicles, and air power. The Israeli military said Monday that it launched around 20 drone strikes across Jenin and vowed that the operation would last longer than one day.
Palestinian authorities have reported at least eight Palestinians have been killed in the offensive, which has been described as the worst attack on the city since 2002. According to Defense for Children International-Palestine, two of those killed were children: Nouruddin Husam Yousef Marshoud, 15, and 17-year-old Majdi Younis Saud. The death toll is expected to rise as the city has now been under siege for 24 hours.
Israel launched the offensive to root out armed resistance groups in Jenin, but the city’s mayor said civilians are also being killed. “Those being targeted now are not just the resistance fighters, but civilians are being killed and wounded as well,” Nidal Obeidi told Al Jazeera.
“the attack on Jenin was launched by 1,000 Israeli troops, 150 armored vehicles, and air power. ” While the Palestinians were defending with slingshots and rocks.
I guess Goliath has learned a thing or two.
You have to love that cynical and overused term “the right to defend iitself”. We are still awaiting accountability for the murder of two American citizens, Rachel Corrie and Shireen Abu Aakleh, by these Zionist terroists.
Remember the Liberty! 🇺🇸
H*ll yes! It was an act of war, and our response was……………no response. Subsequent “rule of law” administrations have swept it under the rug.
Don’t hold your breath while you wait, it could be FATAL.
Israel is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The United States stand by and tell us “Israel has the right to
defend itself.”
Against WHAT?
Repeated terrorist attacks and killings of Israeli cvitizens.
The overturn of the racist,genocidal nature of the Israeli Government will have to be led by the people same as in the US with our own policies.
Meanwhile,there are plenty of Arabs living peacefully in Israel,but no Jews living in the Arab countries-so who’s the racist-HAHA!
Downvoted for ignoring history.
says you.
more like rewriting history
GO FUCK YOURSELF RAW!!!!!!!!!
HA HA HA-you cant handle the truth.
It’s like shooting a fish in a barrel then claiming to be a top marksman.
Lobbing tear gas into a hospital!!?? Firing on innocents in the hospital!!??
Another reason to defeat and destroy the Biden/Obama regime.
… and BDS.
And the next regime will be different? Like the last one was? Or the one before that?
Wars, every single Amerikkkan needs to do their part and vote (a) Green Party, or (b) Libertarian.
Oh wait, I’m overestimating the intelligence and integrity of the Amerikkkan people.
Cornel West is interesting, and I look forward to debating him and possibly appointing him to a cabinet position after my landslide victory in 2024.
Chances are pretty good the Libertarian Party will nominate a horrorshow candidate in 2024, if it even manages to get much ballot access. It was taken over by a Republican “infiltrate and neuter” PAC last year, and the new “leadership” has cratered fundraising and membership.
Cornel West is an IED that will blow up the Democratic Party next year. The DNC is a sh*t show. I feel like rat in a Skinner box.
Thomas, WHEN you are POTUS, I’d deeply appreciate a position as ambassador to the UN . 😁
Expect to hear from my transition team!
“Libertarian Party .. was taken over by a Republican “infiltrate and neuter” PAC last year …”
so business as usual? what a shocker
No, but this one needs to be shitcanned.
Oh, so true. But the next regime will be the Trump regime. And regarding Israel, Joey looks downright hostile.
I think Joe is pissed off at what the Present has “presented” but has for some reason forgotten the roles he’s played in creating it.
The one in Cuba is different: it helped liberation in America and Africa, it supports West Sahara and Palestine and, cherry on the cake: no homeless, free healthcare, free education all the way to doctor.
and no opposition parties, and no treatment for AIDS victims.
No idea where you get there’s no AIDS treatment in Cuba. First time I ever heard that.
But sure: no opposition parties, just like in the USA, where both parties are one and the same. Mind you that I’m all for multiparty socialism or communism and I’m very critical of single party Bolshevik-model socialism, which tends to breed careerists and, as we saw in Eurasia, may well end with return to Capitalism. However that will probably only happen when a true proletarian (and not peasant) revolution happens in the developed world (or elsewhere where a proletarian, i.e. urban working class, is already dominant). Still the Bolshevik model systems have been very positively influential in many aspects and deserve a modicum of respect even if critical, they are history just like, for instance, Cromwell’s dictatorship was for the parlamentarian bourgeois systems.
The defenders of single party democracy in Cuba argue anyhow that the participation in elections is much higher there than in the USA and that’s because their model of democracy is much better. I would also argue there’s no more freedom of speech in the USA (or growingly also in Europe) than in Cuba.
I still disagree with the single party model and I think it’d be best if multiple parties, provided they are communist and not bourgeois, could exist in Cuba. What I wouldn’t want is a case like Venezuela, where the opposition is fundamentally bourgeois and controls all non-state media, as well as other anti-democratic power resorts in the form of private wealth. There can’t be democracy while some are wealthier than others, only equality can provide democracy. Else you get the horrible Coke-Pepsi fake democracy of the USA, directed by plutocrat-owned media and corporate donations (let alone black box e-voting, uninominal non-representative districts, etc., all producing a Congress of the mega-rich and not of the People in any way). There should be pluralistic socialism/communism but socialism!
The Regime is bipartisan, of did ever any Republicans do anything different. Vote Cornel West or don’t bother.
Of course, The species that do not get genocide. Just shocked when something bad happens to themselves. Species that have never graduated to the concept of God that makes all human being equal.
Species still living under a concept of Zeus, a vengeful God that you can please with offerings and negotiate with. Cut deals. Zeus has made the Western and their kindred species exceptional, and for as long as worshiped correcttly, soecies are destined to rule over all others. Entitled, expected. The world of inferiors demands their “leadership”.
A crack in the faith occured when Russia provoked the wrath of Zeus and pushed into into Ukraine, our claimed reservation. This crack in the time-space continuum must be repaired so that faith in the Western species natural superior leadership can be preserved.
But the.crack is not being repaired, it is widening. The faith in Western siperiority is waning. There are revolts. Out of 23 applicants, five new members are likely to joun BRICKS+ in August: Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Indonesia and Argentina. Zeus is fading. God of all human beings being equal is in the rise.
That cannot be allowed, Zeus will show his powers over infidels continually challenging his superiority., Jenin? Why not. A demonstration of might is needed, somebody has to pay.
Why is the United Snakes ignoring the Articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention?
It specifically states that the OCCUPIED have the right to resist the OCCUPIERS, including militarily.
That tired old term “terrorist “ needs to be erased from our vernacular. These are FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
“the attack on Jenin was launched by 1,000 Israeli troops, 150 armored vehicles, and air power.
“US Backs Israel’s Major Offensive in West Bank City of Jenin”
What else the U S of A can do or say.”
USA wants to democracy, foredoom, human rights every where else.
PATHETIC
US policy: Kiss Israel’s behind and keep the AIPAC donations flowing.
When the GOP has the White House, both housed of Congress, SCOTUS, the American experiment will be toast. Joe is a moron. RFK, Jr. is an idiot. Cornel West is like an IED for the Democratic Party. What is there left?
Pigs
In other words: USA backs racist genocide in Palestine. Zionism should be illegal like Nazism, no difference.
Zionism is a just national liberation movement.Get used to it.
same shit different day