The US has no plans to restrict military aid to Israel or draw any red lines on Israel’s use of US-provided munitions despite President Biden labeling Israel’s bombing of Gaza “indiscriminate” and the massive civilian death toll, US officials told CNN.
One official said the US does not consider the death of civilians a violation of the laws of war unless they are purposefully targeted. A report from +972 Magazine revealed that Israel is intentionally targeting civilians as part of a strategy to put pressure on Hamas, but the Biden administration is still claiming Israel is taking steps to mitigate civilian casualties.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed on Wednesday that Israel “stated their intent to reduce civilian casualties. And they have acted on that.” When pressed on President Biden’s comments calling Israel’s bombing campaign “indiscriminate,” Kirby refused to say if that was the US government’s official position.
“The President was expressing concerns — again, as I said — about the civilian casualties that we’ve seen. And, again, it’s reflective of our constant efforts to urge the Israelis to be as precise and careful as possible,” Kirby said.
In the same speech where Biden called the Israeli bombing “indiscriminate,” he vowed to continue supporting the campaign.
While US officials have been expressing “concern” about civilian casualties, the administration is not using any leverage it has over Israel to force them to change their tactics. Israel dropped more than 22,000 US-provided bombs on Gaza in just the first month and a half of the operation, demonstrating how reliant the Israeli military is on US support.
The US officials speaking to CNN also said the US was not conducting real-time assessments of each Israeli strike to see what weapons were used and how many civilians were killed. They said doing so would be “nearly impossible” due to the sheer number of Israeli bombings.
So far, the US-backed slaughter in Gaza has killed over 18,000 Palestinians, including over 7,000 children. The White House has previously acknowledged “many, many thousands of innocent people” were being killed by Israel in Gaza.
The US is entirely responsible for carnage and mayhem.
I’m not sure if we’re “entirely” responsible, since the Israelis themselves are doing a pretty good job genociding the Palestinians.
Up to a point the British were deeply involved also, but the USA has enough influence to have stopped or massively reduced it going back many decades.
Really the whole western world has let the Palestinians down. Only Hamas forced the whole world to see the problem. Abbas served the Israelis and the Settlers not his people, Hamas served the people at least as much as was possible in the Gaza prison, that is why the people elected them.
The US is an Israeli vassal.
And the beast to the east does not count?
WITAS does a 2015 WWE wrestling event have to do with anything ???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_in_the_East
“The Beast in the East was a professional wrestling live event produced by the American promotion WWE. It took place on July 4, 2015, at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.”
Try to focus, Jacobin !
(tho in your defense, I do think the WWE Survivor Series is vastly superior to the CBS knockoff “Survivor”)
Oct 7, may have played a “small” part in what has happen in Gaza.
Which doesn’t necessarily refute what she said. The US has been enabling for decades. This shit didn’t start on October 7th.
Hamas reacted to decades of brutal occupation in a open air concentration camp, they did not start it. The pressure cooker, the concentration camp, simply exploded. the people had enough and nothing to lose.
Israel has abused Palestinians for over 70 years! I’m talking MAJOR human rights abuses. Yet when the oppressed chooses to lose his shackles, he is beaten down and murdered much like a slave revolt would have been dealt with in the USA! We may be living in modern times, but the actions of Israel and its whore the USA harken back to very DARK AGES!
Israel is sucking the US tit dry”…………………………………………………..
if Trump is reelected there will be even more money for Israel and even less for America
That will be true regardless who is ‘elected’.
True. Trump gave them Jerusalem and the Golan. If he gets reelected, he may give them Washington, DC in his final act to “Drain The Swamp.” …No. No. It’s the opposite: “Drain The Swamp”–my A$$!!! LOL.
Not to forget that diplomatic tour de force, the Abraham Accords, … together with the rescue of 666 Fifth Ave.
LOL!!! I thought you were talking about the residence of Satan, so I googled that address and found out that you actually were.
Biden and Trump and their followers are creatures from the Black Lagoon,the title of an early horror film.
Maybe, but he also might precipitate enough disfunction to derail or at least degrade US support. With Biden it is strictly business as usual.
Wishful thinking about Trump. He is not going to veto any bill giving Israel money.
For once I agree with something you say. Every rodent finds an acorn.
I did not you ate acorns.
No but partisan gridlock could achieve the same result
Not likely when it comes to aid to Israel.
Sadly, the gridlock isn’t over Israel aid specifically. I expect their military aid will have been sent long before the next election takes place. And I would pretty much bet my house that military aid to Israel will never again be linked to anything that might make it difficult to approve immediately.
Maybe, but he also might precipitate enough disfunction to derail or at least degrade US support. With Biden it is strictly business as usual.
Trump would be as dysfunctional as Biden, there will be the same neocon monsters, sh*theads in charge.
“US officials have been expressing ‘concern’ about civilian casualties” is like a butcher expressing “concern” about cows he butchered. Is it because he butchered too many? Is it because he butchered too few? …Neither. That “concern” is lip service. They have nothing to be concerned about. We’re all still $hitting “moral superiority” and “exceptionalism” on the rest of the human race.
It’s difficult for me, at times, to process the internal rage I’m experiencing.
Pray to God that he sorts this mess out sooner than later!
Smoke a joint,drink a beer. It will all be over shortly. Ashes to ashes,dust to dust.
Someone needs to intercept arm shipment to Israel whether at air or sea…!
And so it goes. I do not think anything can change the destructive course that the US is going on.
When Oct 7 happened- I read- there were no rapes,there were no slaughtered babies,there were no people burned alive,Hamas missiles are mosquito bites,Israelis did it to themselves. Yeah right. The situation is a sad one,but pay back a bitch. Pogroms will not be without cost. Blame Hamas and its supporters.
Did it ever occur to you that Hamas made it pay back time for 75 years of brutal humiliating torture the Palestinians including children had to endure?
What are the Settlers with IDF protection doing to Palestinians on the WB?
Brutalized people pay back eventually.
To pretend the Israelis are the victims is really the pits,
the Israelis are cowards fighting a war with bombs and unbelievable brutality against defenseless women and children, despicable monsters in uniform.
To many people. Israeli-Palestinian history began on October 7. 2023., Just as US-Iranian history began in 1979. Nothing bad ever happened to these people to precipitate their violent (re)actions.
How can people form opinions without knowing and considering the context of the issue in question?
There are plenty of indications that the IDF on its Southern Front is no longer capable of fighting Mano a Mano. The uptick in gruesome Blind Rage atrocities signal a army that’s turned into a demoralized rabble.
The few military videos being published show a shockingly amateurish military – lacking in basic stuff like perimeter security and spreading out (spacing). These failings stem from either lack of training or poor leadership or demoralized conscripts no-longer-giving-a-sh*t
The uptick in armored vehicles getting hit also suggest the IDF infantry ( mostly Sephardim) refuse to support the IDF armor ( mostly Askanazi )
I hope your analysis is wrong for Gaza shake. The longer the operation takes the move civilians will die. And if the conscripts get demoralized as you claim, military history tells us that demoralized troops get angry at the enemy and show no mercy on them.
Agreed
The Blind Rage atrocities that we are seeing are indeed evidence of a army that is losing badly.
For the first time the IDF is taking casualties. It won’t be the last.
“For the first time the IDF” The IDF has lost 10,000s troops over the years.
Blame the Zionists, they want the whole of Palestine. They never made any effort to live in peace with the Palestinians. It started bloody with the Irgun Zionist terrorists. They expelled about 700 000 people from Israel, about 85% of the total Arab population.
Does that make you happy? What is the point if Gaza is destroyed in the war? And that is exactly what will happen as the war drags on.
What more can they destroy?
No one even hinted to be happy about it.
In Ukraine it is over but no one in the Biden administration has the decency and spine, and common sense to end the slaughter. No, they will use more money to slaughter more Ukrainians and Russian soldiers. Biden wants unconditional surrender.
Genocide Joe must go.
Gaza has already been destroyed.
When at any time did the Israelis or the Americans show mercy?
I hope and pray that someone with common sense would step out and clean up and end the brutal massacre of the helpless People. My heart breaks just to see pictures of the immense misery the people go through.
Agreed – the sooner the Likud accepts 181 and 194; the sooner there will be peace and security for the Jewish State.
“IDF infantry ( mostly Sephardim) refuse to support the IDF armor ( mostly Askanazi )”
Curious – why is there a (subcultural?) divide within the IDF along those lines ?
Israeli society is deeply divided along ethnic lines. That’s no secret
I knew that. I’m just surprised it would be formalised within a military structure, in a modern era, with ethnic battalions largely gone the way of trench warfare.
The never ending outright lies and ignoring of the truth and reality .
“ Look, we certainly share the concerns that so many others have … about the humanitarian situation in Gaza,” Kirby said last week from a rostrum at the White House flanked by the Stars and Stripes. “Tell me, name me, one more nation, any other nation, that is doing as much as the United States to alleviate the pain and suffering of the people of Gaza. You can’t. You just can’t.”
I should let that astonishing paragraph stand as Kirby’s sorry epitaph since it demonstrates how prepared the Biden administration and its smug surrogates are to disfigure reality to promote a revolting lie.
But Kirby’s deplorable admonition requires a reply. Decency demands it.
Much of Gaza and 18,600 Palestinians – the bulk of them children and women – have been erased and buried in mass graves with the help of America’s lethal largesse.
Thousands more have been maimed, traumatised or remain entombed beneath the pancake-like rubble – the shattered remnants of once-vibrant homes, businesses, schools, mosques and hospitals.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/14/biden-kirby-and-dead-ungrateful-palestinians
They don’t have the capacity for compassion, they’re souless, heartless and get off on bloodlust.
You must be speaking about Hamas.
Who is bombing Gaza, how many military targets does Gaza have? Is the civilian population armed, able to protect itself including women and children? They have bomb-shelters to find cover? Hospitals and medical supplies?
Have you no shame when the IDF kills unarmed women and children for no military reason at all? Who are the victims, IDF soldiers or women and children?
That is despicable, it is what sadistic criminals do.
Israel is a brutal terrorist society, they hate people and brutalized the Palestinians for decades, they are not the victims, Palestinians and their children are. Cry for them, not the killers.
T R U T H
If other nation enter the war on the side of Gaza there won’t be enough pain killers to ease the pain of mass deaths on the US side.
What other nation is going to enter the Gaza war? Egypt, no, Jordan, no, Syria, no, Lebanon, no and Turkey, no. Just a fantasy by the Anti-Israel group.
Are you sure? They were sure Ukraine would be a cakewalk, they underestimated everything. All of them plus Russia have national interests, it is their front yard, ad they have top of the line nuclear weapons. How many missiles would it take to destroy an aircraft carrier?
Wishful thinking results in something like Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan you want to add Israel? Don’t count on NATO, it is imploding.
When Biden blew up the pipeline, he declared war on NATO members and the EU, most of which are also NATO members.
We need some common sense leadership all we have are pigheaded neocons, ready to attack China to sell more weapons to Taiwan.
kirby: poor excuse for an American, a christian, an irishman, and a man…
War criminals are by nature liars. Since our government consists of war criminals only, you can’t believe a word they say.
When they open their mouth it is nothing but
COVER YOUR ASS rhetoric. They told the Israeli Zionists to not kill so many babies, that covers their ass. It takes care of their responsibility, morally and otherwise. They are now free in good conscience to make more money.
The is a price to be paid for pogroms,these days.
So far the USA and Israel have gotten away with war crimes with impunity. They don’t even bother to hide their war crimes, to deny and lie is all that is needed.
I know of no Hamas pogrom against Israelis, but I do know of several Israeli Gaza, and WB pogroms. I strongly condemn them.
Have you ever once condemned one Israeli pogrom?
Frankly, I don’t think you did.
When will we have enough character and spine and admit and tell the world Hamas is a resistance movement, partisans, fighting for their families, the Palestinian women and children, the terrorists are the IDF people in uniform, they are the killers and criminals fighting a war against unarmed civilians bombing their homes and their children because there are no military targets to bomb in Gaza, all there is to bomb are unarmed civilians, mostly women and children. It makes you want to v***t. The demons, the baby killers, sit in DC and Tel Aviv or are on vacation in the Hamptons or on the Riviera. The Genocide Joe, the baby killer, is vacationing or campaigning, and asking for more donations to fund the next election. A despicable person, trashy.
Your comment is a little long but DEADLY accurate.No one can tell me that Israel and the US give a shit about womenn and children. The facts suggest differently. This indicates a lack of morality and a lust for blood. I hope there is a day of reckoning for these callous murderers and war criminals but I am not betting on such a long shot.
You are right, but I have the urge to back up the point I make. Habit, not needed here, if it were not for Julio.
Yes,there were no Rapes by Hamas.
Well, there must be evidence, take it to court. You have a credibility issue without evidence, the consequence of too much Hasbara.
Does the murder of Palestinians make you stronger?…..
Let’s make some PEACE!!! For EVERYONE!!!
US come on now, we can be a bit more proactive in this regard… Let’s really help these good people to make PEACE.
Of course we’re not going to put any sort of a leash on Israel- there is too much oil off the coast of Gaza just waiting to be tapped and, one way or another, we’re going to get our share of the profits.
Justice is coming, and America has earned every millisecond of it.
No, I’m not talking about some pathetic CIA/Mossad-created “terrorists” attacking.
I’m talking about the Justice of the Almighty, the Second Coming of Christ, who will set ALL things right.
“The US has no plans to…draw any red lines.”
Ahhh. So Biden’s turn as Obama’s VP during the Syrian situation at least taught him the danger of ‘red lines’.
Part of Joltin’ Joe’s memory is intact, at least.