The State Department has warned its diplomats not to call for de-escalation or an end to the violence as Israeli airstrikes relentlessly hit Gaza, killing hundreds of children.
In a message circulated Friday in emails viewed by HuffPost, the State Department said that high-level officials do not want these three phrases in press materials: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed,” and “restoring calm.”
The State Department’s orders demonstrate how strongly the US is backing Israel’s onslaught on Gaza despite the massive civilian death toll. The White House has also disparaged calls for de-escalation.
When asked about calls for a ceasefire made by some progressive Democrats, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We believe they are wrong, we believe they’re repugnant, and we believe they’re disgraceful.”
The State Department directive was given after Israel told 1.1 million Palestinians in north Gaza to evacuate to the south. Some Palestinians who attempted to flee the north were hit by Israeli airstrikes.
BBC confirmed one incident where Israeli bombs hit a convoy headed south and counted at least 12 dead bodies in a video, mostly women and children. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 70 people were killed in attacks on fleeing Palestinians.
Since Israel unleashed its bombing campaign on Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack, at least 2,239 Palestinians have been killed, including 734 children and 458 women. About 10,000 people have been wounded, and Gaza’s hospitals are at a breaking point as they are not receiving supplies or fuel to power generators.
Phucking sick, deranged psychos.
And, so it goes.
The Biden Administration is criminal, in this as in Ukraine.
Most “conservatives” are also outing themselves as just as deranged if not more so https://rumble.com/v3p3j0k-watch-shapiro-enraged-by-tucker-carlsons-israel-take-system-update.html
Same when it comes to all those anti-woke “free speech” advocates. Turns out most of them just wanted freedom of speech that they agreed with https://rumble.com/v3ous27-free-speech-values-abandoned-for-pro-palestinian-voices-system-update.html
I noticed that “Conservatives” quickly turned 100% Anti-Free Speech, even asking for removal of two congress-women from Congress and Twitter–calling them “TRAITORS!” If it weren’t really disgusting, it would have been …funny?
The Hamas website was briefly up yesterday and is down again today at . https://hamas.ps/en/
Hamas strongly denies that it targeted children. It is important to be skeptical about all news sources in time of war. And to be especially cognizant of the pro-Zionist propaganda in the Western media and the demonization of the Palestinian people and the resistance fighters. Specifically I have not seen any credible evidence of babies beheaded or people raped.
I suspect that atrocities were committed by some resistance fighters, but not on the scale being reported in the media.
Al Jazeera reported that Hamas claims to have released some women and children and al Jazeera confirmed viewing a video released by Hamas showing a woman and two children being released through a hole in the fence by Hamas fighters.
The MSM is trying to keep us in the dark about Hamas’ side of the story.
Just a continuation of the news blackout following the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
People who insist that we have, or have had for some time, a free press have their heads up their arses.
How is the press blocking Hamas’ site?
“The press” certainly isn’t blocking it.
According to “Down for Everyone or Just Me,” the site is up. But it does churn for a long time and return a “the connection has timed out — the server at hamas.ps is taking to long to respond” error. That could be due to DDOS attack, or to the server being too underpowered or the pipes too thin to handle all the traffic coming at it. Their web host is a company in Cyprus, but its data center is in Warsaw.
Who’s talking about Hamas press? I sure wasn’t. I’m talking about the NYT, the WP, the mainstream media, you know, what the average viewer watches and reads. Just as we are seeing re Moscow’s take on the Ukraine conflict, so also the ME conflict. Our MSM are following the live Hamas evil, Israel good, like faithful dogs who know that their sources will be cut off if they don’t publish the party line.
As of 5:36 PM CDT “Is It Down Right Now” stated “Hamas.ps is DOWN for everyone.It is not just you. The server is not responding…”
The site also added that hamas.ps has been down for 13 hours, 35 minutes, coinciding with the last time I was able to reachthe site when it was briefly up yesterday.
At 5:50PM CDT Down for Everyone or Just Me? returned ”
“It’s not just you! hamas.ps is down.”
Interesting. I checked using downforeveryoneorjustme.com immediately before posting my comment, and it was supposedly up. Now it says it’s down.
IANA (“Internet Assigned Numbers Authority”) whois for hamas.ps:
The address, interestingly, is that of the PA headquarters in the West Bank.
Cloudflare’s DNS says that hamas.ps is at 47.242.185.119.
Geolocation of that IP address resolves to:
Alibaba, of course, is a Chinese multinational that provides, among many other things, cloud-based hosting services.
At the moment the server at the IP address is not responding to pings:
Edit: Almost forgot. A reverse lookup (on the IP address rather than the domain name) comes back to Alibaba in San Mateo, California (that’s administrative and has nothing to do with the physical location of the IP). Best practice, if this were an established hosting relationship, would be for the IP to be “delegated” to the customer, so that a reverse lookup would resolve to Hamas, not Alibaba. That it doesn’t might mean that this is a new hosting arrangement (easy to imagine why that might be), or it might mean nothing at all.
I rarely agree with OldGuy.I don’t think he is saying the press is blocking Hamas’ web site. I think he means that we don’t have a free press because we only get a limited range of viewpoints when opposing views are systematically censored.
There’s certainly radical systemic bias in the mainstream media.
What do you mean by the word radical?
Radical means, more or less, “to the root.” I probably should have put a / between “radical” and “systemic” insofar as they’re related.
The Hamas side of the story is quite clear and no publicity stunts change that.When you see a nude unconscious woman in a truck with men sitting on her, or a woman hauled away with blood on her crotch,its evidence for all of rape and war crimes.. An old lady in a wheelchair led off into captivity-is she an israeli General?
The only harm to the captives will come from the IDF.
Your tax dollars at work.
When one sees a nude woman in a truck with men’s legs draped over her,another being let away with blood on her pants,its obvious to anyone what happened to them.
You see what you want to see you sicko.
The DC bog-monsters may not care, but the world (including the Americans who actually believe in “America First,” which includes not subordinating American interests to those of a foreign government) is watching, and remembering
There are a billion Muslims out in the world that would disagree with the Press Secretaries description of dissenting voices here in America. Those statements out of the State Department and the White House press office. Proves beyond a doubt that the American government has chosen sides. That side is not on the suffering of the civilians in Gaza or the West Bank that are being killed by Israelis. This has been the case since 1947 to date. We shall have to see once the dust settles. If this Israeli revenge assault on the Palestinian people will finally bring the Arab world together to speak in one voice. I for one am not holding my breath. Just look at Egypt’s refusal to allow fleeing Palestinian women and children to seek safety in the Sinai Peninsula.
None of the Arab countries ever granted Palestinians citizenship.Keeping them in refugee camps served as a thorn in the side/causes belli. Egypt is currently fighting various guerilla groups in Sinai, and doesn’t need Hamas operatives from Gaza free and loose in Sinai.
Golly
I wonder if Sec of State Blinken approved the warning.
Here is a link to Al Jazeera’s report on the video released by Hamas’ Qassam Brigades showing what appears to be the release of an Israeli settler woman and two children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/11/hamas-video-appears-to-show-release-of-woman-two-children
The Hamas web site is still down, apparently blocked. We are being spoon fed atrocity stories to justify coming horrors in Gaza.
So, we are not for de-escalation or ceasefire, an end to violence and bloodshed, and restoring calm. Hmmm, I guess all “we” are for is old testament style vengeance, eh?
“We believe they are wrong, we believe they’re repugnant, and we believe they’re disgraceful.”
No, that’s you …
I do NOT support, in any way, the intentional killing of civilians by HAMAS.
That being said, what Israel is doing in Gaza is simply mass murder on an industrial scale. They are no better than the Nazis eliminating the Warsaw ghetto. They have ordered all civilians to evacuate northern Gaza, while at the same time bombing SOUTHERN Gaza. Where are the civilians supposed to go?
Lastly, most despicable and cowardly of all is the behavior of the US government; incensed and “outraged” for the fate of suspected US citizens held captive by HAMAS, yet curiously unconcerned about the fate of HUNDREDS of US citizens in Gaza who can’t get out; and are being bombed, with no access to food, water, electricity, or fuel.
AT LEAST Hamas targeted Israeli soldiers and military installations along with the civilians; Israel seems content to just murder civilians. 746 dead children so far.
They are not suppose to go anywhere, they are suppose to die. Israel is bombing a concentration camp, they are even using white phosphorous against civilians, they are monsters.
UNWRA aid workers were among the over 2,000 killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Israel has lost the right to Palestinian land. Return Palestine to the Palestinian people. Find the Zionists another homeland, maybe the US can give their land since they are huge supporters of Zionism.
Whatever the UN did or did not do in 1947-48,Israel exists because its people built it and fight to keep it so.Both Russia,China,Iran,north Korea, Cambodia,Pakistan,Indonesia and Sudan have committed various questionable acts, and no one questions their “right. to statehood”.
Stop It, Israel created the terrorist organisation known as Hamas. Israel was built on the blood of the Patestinians
Palestine wanted the 2 state solution. Israel wanted war and genocide against all conventions. Israel kills Palestinians on a daily basis.
Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cambodia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Sudan operate within international law.
Israel has lost the right to Palestinian Land. Return Palestine to the Palestinian people. Find the Zionists another homeland, maybe the US can give their land since they are huge supporters of Zionism.
I think the entire thing might be explained as: Hamas got tired from actually dying while waiting on us to change our minds as to whether they were terrorists or not. It’s not like it were a beauty contest, while we compared them to sexy Israeli female soldiers. (I feel that I must add Sarcasm here?)
When asked about calls for a ceasefire made by some progressive Democrats, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We believe they are wrong, we believe they’re repugnant, and we believe they’re disgraceful.”
That is one sick bitch.
Middleeasteye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-hospitals-chaos-horror-bodies-floor
There are some seriously defective psyches in that nuthouse. America is brain dead.
She’s just obeying her masters. The same ones pushing for never ending war in Ukraine and chomping at the bit since the 1990’s to bomb Iran and fight China over Taiwan.
“I don’t know nothin’ bout beheading no babies…”
Following the script, yes, but she could have said it more diplomatically, more professionally. But then no one in this current administration is either diplomatic or professional or anywhere near that in my opinion.
At least she didn’t blame Russia for this. That’s an improvement I guess
Regardless. And actually, that just adds to her sickness.
That’s not entirely accurate. She was referring to comments made by members of the Squad. (And I don’t agree with her for the record — just clarifying that this lacks context.)
I don’t see how that changes anything. What’s the difference who made the comments?
That’s how I feel about them, Jean-Pierre and the other vampires. Or maybe it should be
v-empire.
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I hold Israel and its enablers 100% responsible for the present situation! How much abuse must human beings take before they lash out in desperation? The USA continually shows its phony “love” for freedom and democracy” while at the same time stamping them out everywhere they can! Where is the world’s attention when Israeli forces abuse Palestinians daily?
One would think that at some point this would so disgust the executers themselves, the upper tiers of the civil service, they would be impelled to protest; but, no. Shocking to see how comprehensively corrupt Washington has become.
Then Mr. Biden pulls out the sympathy card….kind of. Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/16/illinois-boy-killed-biden-00121695 His words cracked me up. He is all in on the onslaught by Israel, but he comes up with this fake display of sympathy. Such a compassionate man./s
The Biden white house is a moral swamp and an ethical sewer. Uncle Sam is Netanyahoo’s lapdog.
Not just this Administration. All Administrations for at least 50 years have been an ethical sewer in their middle east policies.
Never said otherwise.
I would be remiss, if I didn’t include the other side in the judgement of “moral swamp and an ethical sewer.” Perhaps I could recommend a friendly edit from “The Biden White House” to “The White House?”
Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.
In the same way that Russia had to protect the ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the Donbass, Iran is saying they will protect the Palestinians in Gaza from ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Only an excuse.Newcomb. sow the cobalt.
The reality is that this Zionist genocide is more humanitarian than the generational concentration camp the Zionists have imposed on them. These Zionists are monsters.
I agree with you, but the problem is if the Zionist genocide of Palestinians succeeds 100%, the Palestinians will be forgotten like the American Indians and many other nations.
If you can’t denounce all genocide, you are the problem.
The only genocide being perpetrated is by Iran and its puppets.
Department of War at it again.
They can silence their diplomats but they can’t silence the people in the streets. Tens of thousands of them from all walks of life are demanding an end to this genocide.
Protests WORK!