On Monday, a group of progressive Democrats in the House introduced a resolution calling for de-escalation and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.
“I am grieving for every Palestinian, Israeli, and American life lost to this violence, and my heart breaks for all those who will be forever traumatized because of it. War and retaliatory violence doesn’t achieve accountability or justice; it only leads to more death and human suffering,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said in a statement on the resolution.
The effort is being led by Bush and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), André Carson (D-IN), Summer Lee (D-PA), and Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL). It has received support from Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jesús García (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
The resolution would urge “the Biden Administration to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, to send humanitarian aid and assistance to Gaza, and to save as many lives as possible.”
Amid Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, which has already killed over 2,700 Palestinians, the State Department circulated instructions to its diplomats not to call for a ceasefire or a de-escalation of the conflict. The vast majority of Congress is also strongly backing Israel and wants to pass legislation for new military aid, giving the ceasefire resolution no chance of passing if brought to a vote.
Good, Biden and Blinken are slave minded morons.
Don’t leave Sullivan and Nuland out of this.
Israel’s goal is the destruction of Hamas. They have made that clear. Thus there will not be a ceasefire.
There would be a ceasefire if the US insisted — and meant it.
Sure, but why would the US do that?
The US would do that because it prefers peace and justice to ongoing monstrous war crimes — if that were its preference. Of course, it’s not, so the baby bombing will continue as per usual.
Isn’t that written somewhere in the Rules-Based-International-Order?
The USA dropped patch v.11.0.6.3 for “the Rules-Based-International-Order” app just the other day, revising that. The R-B-I-O now reflects current foreign policy.
The Russians hacked v.11.0.6.3 replacing RBIO with the International Law of the UN Charter reflecting the new multipolar world.
That hack I believe. Definitely not the DNC “hack” tho.
“peace and justice”? Tell me how that will occur if Hamas is still active? I doubt that it will occur after the destruction of Hamas, but I am sure it will not occur as long as Hamas is running Gaza. A ceasefire at this point would just encourage more attacks from Hamas. It is sad that Gaza children are paying the price for Hamas actions.
If Israel hadn’t spent the past 75 years engaged in relentless infliction of the worst kind of injustice on the Palestinians, it’s extremely unlikely that Hamas or similar resistance movements would have arisen.
“It is sad that Gaza children are paying the price for Hamas actions.”
Gaza children are being slaughtered, deliberately and in large numbers, by the war criminals you’re here to defend and promote. Keep it up. With every post, you help turn more decent people against Israel’s endless evil deeds.
Also if Israel hadn’t supported Hamas to counter the PLO, then “it’s extremely unlikely that Hamas … would have arisen.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
Hamas didn’t “arise,” it is an Israeli creation. In the late 70s Israel began funding a fringe group of Palestinian Islamists in a divide-and-conqueror strategy pitting the Islamists against the secular leftist PLO and the 2-state solution. Hamas is “blowback,” the unintended consequences of a covert operation, one that’s killed more Israeli citizens than any secular Palestinian militant group.
Hamas isn’t an “unintended consequence.” The Israeli regime openly supported it at least as late as 2019.
Can we agree when Israel began funding the Islamist group in the late 70s it didn’t intend for it to become one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations with the military capabilities to pull off 10/7?
“Hamas didn’t ‘arise,’ it is an Israeli creation.”
That’s not true. The history of the development of the entities that ultimately birthed Hamas is long and complex. At various times and in various ways, Israel ignored them (and Hamas itself) and sometimes supported them. But Israel did not create Hamas.
The history is readily accessible, in detail, in various places on the net. Wikipedia and the references cited there isn’t a bad place to start.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http:/online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html
Thanks for the referral to Wikipedia, I never of heard of it before – oh wait, yes I have, it’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, has warned “Nobody should trust Wikipedia.” Maybe you should do your own research and find out why.
I know what Larry Sanger says. He has made some useful criticisms. On the other had, it’s also pretty clear that Sanger is a disgruntled ex-employee, laid off more than two decades ago, and that his antagonism has a great deal to do with what amount to political and philosophical disagreements with the way Wikipedia has developed.
As for doing your own research (did you learn that line from QAnon?😏), maybe you should learn how encyclopedias work and how to use them. That would be an excellent step on the way to learning how to do research, so that you could actually do it. Here’s a hint: Follow the links to citations, then read the cited material, check for citations there, rinse and repeat.
Since 1997 Hamas has called for a ten year Hudna (a truce) if Israel would evacuate all the settlements and give the Palestinians a state comprising the entire West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem with the other issues including right of return deferred for ten years during which time the parties would work for a comprehensive deal. That is still Hamas’ position. Under the Hudna Hamas would not recognize Israel as a state, but all sides would cease hostilities for at least ten years and negotiate. Hamas believes in letting future generations choose between extending the Hudna, permanent peace peace or renewed struggle. Hamas continues to offer the Hudna but its leadership believes that the Israeli leadership will remain committed to annexation and either permanent expulsion or extermination of the Palestinian people.
For 20 months in 2018-2019 Hamas organized demonstrations every week where unarmed demonstrators would demonstrate at the Gaza fence demanding an end to the siege. The Israelis murdered over 200 protestors, mostly children and teenagers protesting at the fence. But the Gazans kept coming back week after week. Non-violent protest by Palestinians has never worked against Israel. Armed resistance is the only tactic that has ever won concessions from the Zionists. Sad but true. Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto.
Israel is right in this matter. Sane people know what “progressive” really means.
Right, “Kill the human animals! but, humanitarian-ly. Remember the beheaded babies!”
Let’s hope the Progs don’t back down the instant they get pushback, like they did over the Ukranian war. And let’s hope that all the newly minted antiwar folks on the right, who oppose the Ukrainian war, show some consistency.
Yeah, but both are unlikely.
“…Progs don’t back down the instant they get pushback, like they did over the Ukranian war”
Precisely what I’m waiting for, unfortunately.
Our President will visit Jordan. Jordan is not going to attack Israel, so why is he going to visit Jordan? My prediction: offering to pay for the building of new refugee camps for Gazans whose homes have been and will be destroyed.
Or he thinks he’s being sent to visit Michael Jordan and he’s hoping for an autograph.
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Biden : “I really enjoyed that ‘Crossing Jordan’ show on the NBC when I was Chair of Senate Foreign Relations.”
That visit to Jordan is about two things: preparing to attack Iran, and trying to keep at least one Arab country from speaking for the Palestinians.
Both are fools errands, but then Biden is a fool.
De-fund Israeli military, stop sending the bombs they commit war crimes with.
In the last week, Israel murdered over 700 Palestinian children in retaliation… but the US ghouls in congress lust for more death and destruction.
1024 now
Hamas knew that Israel bombers would hit the Gaza strip with in hours after Hamas attack. Yet they went ahead with the attack. IDF weapons have cause those deaths, but Hamas is responsible for them.
So, is there any limit to the carnage or is it all on Hamas? Is there anything that might be considered disproportionate? Or does Israel just have the right to kill as many as they damn well please and all those deaths will be attributed to Hamas?
“One of the most destructive ideas in modern times is this notion that it’s fine and appropriate for governments to act like monsters whenever anything bad happens to their country. We saw it happen with the United States after 9/11, and we’re seeing it now with Israel. Dropping military explosives on children is just as wrong now as it was on October 6th. Wars of aggression were just as wrong on September 12th 2001 as they were on September 10th. But there’s this idiotic belief in mainstream culture that a nation experiencing a traumatic event means it gets to go on a murderous rampage until it feels better. As soon as the Hamas attack occurred we were inundated with messaging from the western political/media class which conveyed the idea that because something bad happened to Israel, Israel now gets to do a little genocide, as a treat.” — Caitlin Johnstone
Well said
Johnstone is consistently amazing.
No, Israel don’t get to absolve itself of responsibility for the actions it has taken in response to Hamas’ attacks. There are always alternatives, it chose the course it knew would kill thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians, for that they are solely responsible.
What led up to the attacks? Let’s pay attention to an Israeli lawmaker: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/08/israeli-lawmaker-says-pogroms-against-palestinians-provoked-hamas-assault/
“de-escalation” = sending 2 carrier groups over there to throw some weight around, in the proper direction of course.
Were the Hamas terrorist attacks really designed to set a trap for Israel? Commit unspeakable atrocities to lure the Israeli armed forces into Gaza, where they will be ruthlessly ground up.
I am hopeful for a less likely but differently more effective possibility : lure the IDF into invading & destroying Gaza – and put up zero resistance. Let a thousand critical lenses show the world an unarmed people welcoming “their liberators” with flowers, being bombed and shelled and run over by tanks and APC’s.
Hideous international P.R. for Israel’s government is worth a million times more than any dead IDF soldier(s).