A US official said Sunday that Israel has the “right” to expand its military operations in southern Gaza but said the Biden administration is looking for a delay in the plan to account for the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have fled fighting from the north.
“In the event that we believe that Israel is likely to embark on combat operations, including in the south, we believe both that they have the right to do that, but that there is a real concern, because hundreds of thousands of residents of Gaza have fled now from the north to the south at Israel’s request,” US Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
“We think that their operations should not go forward until those people – those additional civilians – have been accounted for in their military planning. And so, we will be conveying that directly to them and have been conveying that directly to them,” Finer added.
Israel has been bombing southern Gaza throughout the war, even after telling Palestinians in the north to flee to the south. Now, Israeli officials are vowing to further expand the war in the south, and ground operations are expected. Reuters reported on Saturday that more civilian casualties are expected in a southern offensive but that Israel is not deterred by that fact.
While Finer and other US officials are saying publicly that they want Israel to limit civilian casualties, the US is not using any leverage it has over Israel and continues to provide military aid unconditionally. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in Israel’s assault has exceeded 13,000 Palestinians, including over 5,500 children.
Israel dropped leaflets on the southern city of Khan Younis, telling civilians to evacuate to unspecified shelters. After the leaflets were dropped, Israeli strikes hit the city, killing 26 Palestinians, mostly children, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Israel dropped leaflets
Is the most outrageous excuse for bombing civilians I have ever heard of.
Americans are shameless enablers to war crimes.
The inmates are running the asylum.
The enablers are complicit war criminals. The president is a war criminal, he is deranged and the constitution is not prepared for such a problem?
Well, we have the 25th Amendment, but when “the Vice President and a majority of the principal officers of the executive departments” are similarly deranged, it’s not very useful.
That’s the problem. Even when you had incompetent presidents there were always some sane people in the administration that would keep them from going completely off the rails. With this administration there doesn’t seem to be any ‘sane voices’ that would slow down the destructive path the U.S. Government is on. Which leads me to believe they’re all in on the agenda or they’re afraid to challenge the administration knowing that Joe’s handlers will unleash the politicized justice department on them.
The story seems to be pretty much the same with the group that’s waiting in the wings.
Not Americans, the US Federal government, owned by the billionaires who fund our “elections” and serving special interest groups, including but not limited to AIPAC.
The western nations have become mad houses. The people are as crazy as the the governing establishment. The fact that we have a deranged president who can’t connect the words in a sentence and the incompetent, unqualified members of his administration prove it. No person with common sense near the demented old man. The whole congress is just as bonkers. Normal people would resign they could not survive.
Have you seen the Axelrod feud? Not that I’m a fan but he spoke plain truths. And then Biden called him a prick. Biden is every bit as arrogant and narcissistic as Trump. He insists on running, even though people don’t want him, because it’s all about him and his ego:
Axelrod doubled down on his assessment of the current prospects for the Biden campaign.
“I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better than that, maybe a little worse,” Axelrod told Dowd. “He thinks he can cheat nature here and it’s really risky. They’ve got a real problem if they’re counting on Trump to win it for them. I remember Hillary doing that, too.”
Dowd agreed, writing that Biden’s “flash of anger indicates that he may be in denial, surrounded by enablers who are sugarcoating a grim political forecast.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/david-axelrod-goes-even-harder-at-biden-giving-him-50-50-shot-at-2024-win-he-thinks-he-can-cheat-nature/ar-AA1kcB0m
“Biden is every bit as arrogant and narcissistic as Trump.”
Without a doubt. Not that you can’t be sharp at 80, it’s just that you can’t possibly think that you haven’t lost anything and somehow you at 80, are better than anything this country has to offer. I can’t imagine how Biden makes it back to his bed after a trip to the bathroom. Must have a secret service guy lend an arm. Trump just uses one of his subjects.
Speaking as an 80 year old, I can attest to the truth of your words. Anyone in this age bracket who insists they haven’t lost a few steps is clearly stumbling like a blind drunk after being hit by a truck.
And judging by your comments, I’d say you are one of those I was speaking about being sharp. I’m “only” 68 and the battle with my car keys is never ending. And by battle I mean, “where in the fuck did I put them?”
With me, it’s eyeglasses. I’m always losing track of them and spending half an hour looking for them, usually to discover that either a) I hadn’t put them on today and they’re still on my bedside table where I should have looked in the first place, or 2) they’re on my head.
There are five generations (mostly) of people living on this planet. Two of the oldest generations aren’t ready to give up power until they wreck this planet for the other three.
AIPAC and the Military Industrial Complex have the levers of power in America.
The western nations are subordinated to US imperialistic oligarchy which is the product of Anglo-Saxon capitalistic civilization. US financial-political elite is absolutely devoted to the idea of the global full-spectrum dominance. They are so obsessed with this idea that they lost orientation in the real world and making one blunder after other. The situation is bad but not so hopeless because US militarism is well counterbalanced by Russia and China. The understanding of this reality will eventually come to US leadership and we get some stability and predictability in the geopolitics. We got in a dangerous stage of the human evolution but, hopefully, it will not last too long. The world is changing fast and changing for the better.
I agree in theory but don’t think that the required changes will happen fast enough to save civilization.
Anything is possible but I am inclined to believe that we will pass this dangerous stage without major catastrophes.
I sure hope that you are spot on!…..
Sorry buddy I beg to differ. There is a whole bunch of crap coming down on humanity and it will not be diverted.
Bloodthirsty bastards
One must hope that all of the war criminals in the IDF and Israeli government including illegal settlers targeting Palestinians suffer in a new Nuremburg style trial, or that major Islamic powers unleash on Israel…
Why not put Hamas on trial for the massacre they perpetrated?
You surely mean put the IDF on trial for slaughtering 260 Israeli civilians on 7.Oct ?
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-11-17-israels-aerial-attack-killed-over-260-civilian.html
There is a good chance that the second part of your comment comes true. However there is no chance in hell for anyone to be prosecuted for war crimes.
Every poster can save their fingers (from typing). It will be done. After its over, nothing will be done. As Norman Finkelstein said, just like after the previous “operations”, Cast Lead, Protective Edge, nothing will be done. It will be forgotten. Down the memory hole. What is left of the Palestinians who have been under occupation, blockade, for so long there will be death in the tent city erected out of the kindness of the hearts of the West and other Arabs. In the Sinai desert. Death. DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeremiah Wright had it correct when he said, “G-d D-mn America.
The fact that you quote wright shows where you are really coming from.
Israel is so nice. Israel has the right to take the right of 2 million Palestinians to live but only after it also took their land. …No. I’m not kidding.
Israel can’t stop shooting those fish trapped in a barrel, not even because they are shooting themselves in the foot. Israel isn’t quite done making themselves completely totally and absolutely safe forever yet. A bit more genocide and war crimes needed, nothing could be Finer. America is here to help. kill people.
I am sorry that this has been the case for many years now.
Hamas set out to kill as many Jews as possible-now Gazans suffer.
Yeah, too bad Netanyahu and the Likud Party supported Hamas to be the ruling authority for the Palestinians isn’t it?
what right is that?
Joe Biden is a corrupt politician and a moral cesspool.
Hey! Hey! JOE: How many kids did you kill today?
Hey! Hey! JOE: How many kids did you kill today?
It is not only in Gaza. it is here too.The lack of medical help for the poor ot the detention centers for immigrants come to mind.The lack of treatment for mental disorders or addictions is also a factor.
The Israelis seem to believe they can kill as many as they can. But their plans to “Erase” the Palestinians will pay the same sort of dividends that Germany got for their holocaust of the Jews if they are not careful. Is it the image often persecuted jews want as their own????Jews have always been aware of their image because among other things the way the Nazis chose to portray them as subhumans, but now we see the Zionists portraying the Palestinians in the same way that the Nazis presented Jews to dehumanize them. Revving and displaying the Nazi type propaganda is not much of a good way to make their way for a future.
Except the Nazis didn’t have the US federal government backing them. Luckily its days as a sole superpower seem to be waning. Multipolarism may not be perfect, but it’s better than what we have now
When Hamas and others speak of “from the river to the sea”they mean to kill or drive out every Jew in Israel.Hezbollah tells all Jews to come to Israel in order to facilitate their being slaughtered.
“Blood on our hands” painting by Caitlin Johnstone
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d5b37b913656ca7ee70d2396f43170259a3ed27a6828148042d3e4308893e8dd.jpg
Max Blumenthal
@MaxBlumenthal
Israeli children sing to “annihilate everyone” in Gaza in genocidal war anthem
This Nazi-esque ethnosupremacist propaganda was published by Israel’s national broadcaster,
@kann_news
, and subsequently deleted
via
@intifada
How many of Biden’s Staff are Zionist? This is Genocide for land and anyone abetting, sponsoring this Genocide is a War Criminal. Time for those who have the power, to bring these War Criminals to justice.
“… those who have the power …” is any country. Any country can charge and prosecute officials in another with War Crimes. Malaysia held a tribunal and convicted Prez George W Bush, PM Tony Blair, Bush’s VP Cheney, DefSec Rumsfeld and 5 of their legal advisors of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The tribunal has no power to enforce or impose a sentence on those convicted.
At least one can say “Bush was convicted of war crimes.” Which I do whenever the opportunity presents itself.
US officials are saying publicly that they want Israel to limit civilian casualties
Limit to what, women and children?
As if Biden and his administration really care about the Palestinians. Clearly, Biden and his posse not only stand behind, but also enable Israel with its ongoing genocide. War crime of the worst kind. Did not Hitler do the same thing? Clearly, Biden is a war crimminal. High Crime! Clearly, Biden is commiting an impeachable offence. Anybody in Congress willing to bring forth articles of Impeachment on the demented dude? Omar? Tlaib? Cortez? I wonder how many Republicans would vote against impeaching Biden on such grounds should such an opportunity come up.
It won’t happen. We are governed by monsters.
Remember when Trump did the missile attack on Syria and the media gushed that he was “presidential”? In this country you get impeached for cheating on your wife and lying about it. Not for war or war crimes.
The warmongering media always claims every President during his first year in office, is being “tested” by Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, Timbuktu, Katmandu, etc., ad infinitum. Of course we never “test any other leader or nation” we just sanction, invade, fix “elections” or resort to more drastic overthrow.
“While…US officials are saying publicly that they want Israel to limit civilian casualties…”
…saying – in the same breath – a/ that Israel has the “right” to expand its military operations,” and b/ that the US will keep giving it weapons with “n[o]…conditions” (Reuters 10/12)…
…not only empties declarations of “wan[ting]” Israel to exercise restraint of all force and power, but exposes such declarations as an antidemocratic political ruse – a mask of ‘concern’ by Israel’s main collaborator and enabler in collective punishment.
No the US is not particularly concerned about Israel’s Gazan atrocities, we did the same/similar in Iraq. They are concerned about the majority world’s response, it’s negative impact on our global influence, the growing potential for an expanded war and Israel pulling us into it, particularly with Iran. Their problem is the Israel Lobby is not.
He wants the delay so that Biden can send more weapons through our little conduit in Cyprus. Reload and rearm. For the final push. The FINAL SOLUTION. And the world watches.
“We think that their operations should not go forward until those people – those additional civilians – have been accounted for in their military planning.”
They have been accounted for – the Palestinians have 3 choices, subservience, leave or die.
No nation no person no ideology or religion has the [RIGHT] to commit genocide!
Hamas and all Palestinians have the right to resist their occupier. The Israeli occupier has no right to self defense.
Donbass and all ethnic Russians have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Syria and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Iraq and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Afghanistan and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Libya and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Do the Chechnyans have the right to resist their occupier? How about the Crimean tatars?
First you would need to make a case they are occupied. Or are you arguing that 40 babies were beheaded, and woman were raped and Saddam Hussein had WMD’s BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Well, apparently the definition of “occupied” is “it pleases Doom Sternz to call them ‘occupied.'” So instead of making the case, I guess I can just ask you whether they’re “occupied” or not.
Is this really an ex US trooper lecturing me on occupation? Really? Any self awareness at all?
The US pattern of occupation, is unmistakable. It begins with sanctimonious finger-wagging, economic sanctions and incendiary rhetoric, and quickly escalates into stealth bombings, drone attacks, unlawful detention and torture, massive destruction of civilian infrastructure, millions of fleeing refugees, decimated towns and cities, death squads, wholesale human carnage, vast environmental devastation, and the steady slide into failed state anarchy; all of which is accompanied by the repetition of state propaganda spewed from every corporate bullhorn in the western media.
After all isn’t this how it happened in Iraq, Libya, Afganistan, Syria etc etc etc And isn’t this what is happening in Gaza?
Are you sanctimonious finger-wagging at me?
Yes, US occupations have happened all over the place.
Russian and Chinese occupations are less extensive, but not non-existent.
Name 1 Russian Occupation?
Name 1 Chinese Occupation?
“Name 1 Russian Occupation?”
Chechnya.
“Name 1 Chinese Occupation?”
Tibet.
omg you are so establishment, And Saddam Hussein had WMD’s right?
You are CIA right? And you pretend to have given up being a TOOL of US empire.
They just happen to be 2 countries the US is attempting regime change, lol.
Silly silly man. I see how you ended up a TOOL of US empire, so gullible.
There’s only one TOOL in this thread and it’s not him.
Yeah i know democracy itself is on the Ballot. And the vaccine is safe and effective,
Just wait till they roll out the brain computer electronic interface!
The rubes’ll be linin’ up fer it.
The Batman killer in Aurora was working on that for DARPA and his father was an expert in the same field, particularly focused on visual interface.
It looks that way.
Tool of the empire?
How’s that work.
In other words “it’s not occupation if Doom Sternz LIKES the regime doing it.”
Please stop harassing Doom.
It would take you another lifetime to come anywhere near his level of integrity.
I’m no expert on reincarnation, but my impression is that it generally moves upward, not downward.
Very clever of you, thank you.
At least you try to say something original when you have absolutely nothing to say.
Naturally, it would take you another lifetime to understand the true meaning of my initial post.
My current lifetime schedule is too crowded to fit that attempt at understanding in. I’d have to give up a whole rosary of Hare Krishnas, or something.
I like rosaries.
Grow Up. And STOP being such a baby. I honestly thought the CIA had better people, boy was i wrong.
“ethnic Muslims” ?
YES. A believer in the religion of Islam. I have written it this way to include all of Islam, not about Sunni or Shia which MSM would have us beleive.
If the Muslim world can unite, Palestine will be free.
Salah ad-Din!
Biden official announces, “Israel has a right to commit genocide in Gaza”
Genocide is self-defense and ceasefires are Anti-Semitic.
Billionaire blacklists are free speech.
Crocodile tears. Far too long, as Washington sees it, the Palestinians have stuck in the throat of US/Israel imperial incorporation of the mid-East. Now Fortune has hap’ly supplied them the Man, the one-in-a-million, Bibi, for the unpleasant task of clearing it. Washington will guard the door; and, will supply the types, like Finer (Jerzy Kiszinski, Elie Weasel, …), to play the Victim and cover the PR.
I expect that the Netanyahu government will order all people in the Gaza strip to go to the Northern half for safety.
I think the order will be “Stop placing yourselves in the path of Israeli missiles, engaging with Israeli missiles is at your own risk.”
This is clearly genocide. I have lost hope for humanity years ago. People don’t learn from history and the powerful people continually crush the powerless people. And they always have a reason for why they need to mass murder people, and people believe it because they have perfected the art of propaganda, mass manipulation, and deception.
“I have lost hope for humanity” – we are watching a crisis of the western civilization. It is only a part of humanity. China is okay, Russia is okay and India is okay. So, eventually, the common sense will prevail.
No, I really don’t think any powerful people from anywhere in the world are ok. They still want to control and exploit the powerless too. There really is no hope
I think you have a bad opinion about the leaders and the elites of other countries because you are consuming too much of the western corporate mass media propaganda which is full of lies.
No, I don’t pay much attention to mass media. I’m not a fool to believe that there are other major powers that are good, when at the end of the day, they want power and money too and will thwart anyone they deem a threat to their power.
I hope that you are correct but I have my doubts.
Israel does not have a right to exist on land they stole from the Palestinians. The Palestinians have a right to fight for the return of their homeland.
“Zionism was founded on a cold blooded policy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing and terrorism. As an Orthodox Jew I hope and pray that the Zionist State of Israel is recognized for what it is, and that the whole flawed concept to be brought to an end.”
RABBI AHRON COHEN
There was a ceasefire before 10-7,
then in a surprise attack Hamas decided to end it.
Now, Hamas wants an ANOTHER ceasefire???
So why would Israel, or anyone else, believe Hamas means it
this time???
Do try to keep up. I know it’s hard, what with the censorship being carried out on behalf of the US government, but try. Otherwise you look ridiculous putting out crap like this.
It almost makes you look like you’re not informed about what’s been happening for the past 56 years.
Smug is a terrific look for you!
Ceasefire!
The blockade of Gaza by Israel was an ongoing act of war
There was no ceasefire in effect.
The IDF soldiers killed by Hamas were essentially concentration camp guards.
Just one baby was killed on 10-7, by a stray bullet.
The assorted burnt body parts that Netanyahu touted as dead baby bits were probably the remains of an adult blasted apart by one of the the many tomahawlk missiles that were fired indiscriminately by the IDF, killing many Israelis.
Why do the Zionists kill their own people, and their own very left wing people? Hmm. They were Netanyahu opponents for the most part.
Trump and Netanyahu are on the same wavelength, crying, “Kill the Vermin!”
Looks like we stopped hearing that 9/11 comparison in the media. Too many weird similarities?
Question #1 Who let it happen?
Question #2 Who moved the date and location of the music festival to put it in harm’s way?
dreamonJoe
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope some day You’ll join us
And the world can live as one
-John Lennon
Time to put Biden and his sweetheart Bibi in the dock of the Hague.
Seems pretty clear to me that the goal is the extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
you g0t to fight
For your right
to genocide
How beastly };-)>
Yesterday upon Donetsk i swear, i met some Russian troops that weren’t there. They weren’t there again today. I wish I wish they would go away.
When i came home last night at three, the Russian troops were there waiting for me, but when i looked around the hall, i couldn’t see them there at all.
Last night in Luhansk i swear, i met some Russian troops that weren’t there. They weren’t there again today. I wish I wish they would go away.
Yesterday upon Gaza i swear, i met some Terrorists that weren’t there. They weren’t there again today. I wish I wish they would go away.
When i came home last night at three, Terrorists were there waiting for me, but when i looked around the hall, i couldn’t see them there at all.
Last night in Al-Shifa i swear, i met some Terrorists that weren’t there. They weren’t there again today. I wish I wish they would go away.
Bravo!
Reminds me of that Grady Sisters tune };-)>
The US needs to get its head out of its backside. Strike while the iron is hot, for Pete’s sake! We need to put the brakes on this entire situation. PEACE is the ONLY way forward…