The White House on Wednesday gave tacit backing to the Israeli drone strike in Beirut that killed Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau, despite the risk of the action provoking a major war.
US and Israeli officials speaking anonymously to the media have confirmed that Israel was behind the strike but have not done so publicly.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed the US did not know if Israel was behind the strike but justified the bombing of the Lebanese capital.
“We’re not in a position to confirm the specific reports,” Kirby told reporters at a press briefing. “I would just tell you that al-Houri was a noted designated global terrorist and, if he is in fact dead, nobody should be shedding a tear over his loss.”
The State Department also appeared to express its support for the killing of al-Houri while claiming ignorance on who was responsible. State Department spokesman Matt Miller called al-Houri a “brutal terrorist centrally responsible for the attacks on October 7 and other attacks against innocent civilians going back well beforehand.”
Al-Houri was involved in the Qatari-mediated negotiations that led to the hostage deal that freed over 100 Israelis and over 200 Palestinians. Unconfirmed reports say Hamas has suspended recently resumed negotiations over the killing of al-Houri.
Hezbollah is warning that it will respond to the assassination, which marked the first Israeli attack on Beirut since the 2006 Lebanon war. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the Lebanon-Israel border since October 7, and Axios reported in November that some White House officials were worried Israel was trying to provoke a wider war with Hezbollah that would draw in the US.
Ok, then consider shedding a tear for the entirely innocent people that US applauded Israeli strike killed. Oops, that would require a shred of humanity.
Humanity is antisemitic.
Grieving over maimed and dead Palestinian children is deemed antisemitic. Antisemitic this, antisemitic that. It renders the meme to be useless, irrelevant. It has become a way of targeting people who have morality, humanity, rather than its intended use.
People who grieving over maimed and dead Palestinian children offend the tender sensibilities of our Zionist oligarchs and should be shunned as ignorant bigots. Those anti-Semites just don’t understand that 8,000 dead Palestinian children is a small price to pay for Israel’s security.
Anti-Semitism is a real thing. It’s primarily a white supremacist thing. It’s also a Bandera thing. Clearly actual anti-Semitism doesn’t really concern hardly anyone. It’s anti-Apartheid that is now being made synonymous with anti-Semitism.
Calling for basic actual democratic values like equal rights based on citizenship instead of race or ethnicity is now beyond the pale. Hell, in the entire West today outright condemning genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you an unpalatable extremist who ought to be expelled from public life.
” Hell, in the entire West today outright condemning genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you an unpalatable extremist who ought to be expelled from public life.”
My comment on MSN that simply stated “Stop the genocide!” and nothing more was not allowed on MSN. It violated MSN’s community standards!
You sir, are an extremist. Clearly there are good genocides and bad genocides. If you abuse your freedom of speech to go against good genocides the public who chose to be served with the revelation of the absolute truth ™ by the legacy media deserves to be protected against such vile talk.
For those who might experience some trouble in differentiating good genocides from the bad kind there is an easy way to do that. Bad genocides are easy to condemn, they completely lack context and to suggest complications or nuance is to stain your soul. They are perpetrated by evil people for no other reason than to demonstrate their evilness.
Good genocides are perpetrated by inherently good people on an evil people who asked for it and left no other option. Good genocides testify to the evilness of it’s victims. To the extent that good genocides are opposable by people of good faith and appropriate intellectual standing it lies in the context of experienced discomfort with questions of proportionality and the nuances derived from the ethical complications imposed by security issues and such.
It’s the nuances of genocide that they try to get you with.
Opposing genocide is antisemitic now. );-)>
Yeah, that is true. In the world we inhabit today you have to now choose if you want to be an anti-Semite or oppose genocide. Let me then oppose genocide and let me not carry out the anti-Semitism bestowed on me by behaving like I was, you know, human, too enthusiastically.
I hate to break people down by skin color,but there are black,brown and yellow racists and antisemites. The USSR and Hezbollah was and are antisemitic,regardless of skin tones.
Haters are not very human.
Zionists are not very human.
It’s inhuman to support mass murder.
What innocent people were killed in this strike? According to Arab news sources they were all Hamas.
Hmmm… you do seem to be right from the axios (whoever they are) linked story. Wherever it was that I originally read about it said the targeted individual was killed, plus a deputy or two, and I assumed the rest killed were simply bystanders. Even the arguably guilty should not be offed at will in a country one is not even at war with (yet), IMO. Israel seems awfully desperate to get more parties shooting at them ASAP.
According to Aljazeera your assumption is wrong. All were Hamas members. And as for you argument where a he was is taken down, I suppose you disagreed with the USA getting Bin Laden in Pakistan. You take out a guy like him where ever you can.
I’ll be glad to return the favor.
They like murdering people, why would this be any different? They ain’t shedding tears about Palestinian children either. Or Ukrainians, or fill in the blank.
If the Israeli and their American backers, many of them billionaire thugs – I am not talking about your average American here – are shedding tears over mass slaughter of Palestian children then they’re tears of joy. The depth of their depravity does not easily let itself be put into words as it exceeds the bounds of human imagination.
But even if they don’t shed tears about Palestinians as they don’t consider them human, they are clearly not shedding tears even about the Israeli hostages either, who they do at least consider human, be they equally politically exploitable as humanly disposable.
Agreed.
They’re the US federal government. The only language they speak, or understand, is raw naked violence.
I guess Israel and the U.S. of Atrocities forgot about the 100,000+ rockets in the possession of Hezbollah. How many could the Iron Dome stop before they slam into vital structures in Tel Aviv? Such as the Bleach and Chlorine plants in Tel Aviv. Let’s hope is does not happen.
Bleach plan is a vital structure? I don’t think getting your laundry bright is a vital thing.
No amount of soap will get will cleans the blood off Israel’s hands… “Out out damn spot!”
Is that why vip1730 wants to destroyed a bleach plant?
“Let’s hope is does not happen.”
Learn to read, numbnuts.
He can’t waste an opportunity to hurl a false accusation.
It would be unZionist.
No one forgot-people live under a sword of Damocles,but they know that this time,the killers will get a visit from Pluto Boy and his girlfriend CoCo.
“Let’s hope is does not happen.”
Israel is wantonly provoking Hezbollah.
The White House is supplying lethal weapons to the Terrorist State of Israel, who is committing Genocide, so their support of anything Israel does, is no surprise. The White House has for decades, refused to protect Palestinians from the violence inflicted on them by Israel and the ILLEGAL Settlers. Refused to force Israel off of Palestinian Lands and STOP the Illegal Occupation. Our Government has never been honest, fair as a mediator between the Palestinians and Israel. Israel is running our Government, there are NO Patriots left in D.C., those who believe in our Constitution, our Laws, International Laws or our Republic. It is all going downhill from here and Trump is NOT the answer, just another kiss ass.
No one will shed a tear for Genocide Joe either.
Hey Hey!
Ho Ho!
Genocide Joe has got to go!
It wouldn’t surprise me if they burry him with all sort of accusations from terrorism, dictatorship, to Nazism. Here’s an idea. Just make a boiler plate laundry list of bad labels to describe someone you just killed. …What’s that? …You already have one?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blinken-yet-another-complete-idiot-biden-frank-derose
As the Brits might say, the man is a Blinkin’ Idiot.
By the same token, if WH gets attacked by a drone it should be fine because it is US standard…!
According to the DC ghouls bombing apartments in fine, but wandering into the Capitol when the police invite you in = insurrection
They’re not shedding a tear for the hostages that won’t get released because of Israel’s murder of Hamas officials… Upending the negotiation was likely why they did what they did.
Israel wants the hostages dead instead of speaking to journalists about what really happened on Oct. 7th.
What a stupid last sentence.
It fits the facts, stupid.
Saleh al-Arouri was one of the planners of the Oct 7 attack. Little wonder he was taken out. Isoroku Yamamoto was the main planner of Japan’s attack on Pearl. He was taken out by US Army P-38s on April 18, 1943. Same idea here.
Military plane shot down in a warzone, downtown apartment bombed, potato, potato
You are correct same results. Both planners killed.
Yamamoto had a trial first… This was a lynching.
What H are you talking amount? There was no trail.
As you were.. I was thinking of Tojo.
“Yamamoto had a trial first”
In what universe?
Aw lay off, I withdrew it.
In the US, if even a known gangster is killed in Chicago, Baltimore, or Philadelphia, it is still a crime, and the perpetrator is punished if convicted.
But if the perpetrator is Israel, it is loudly praised by US officials. What monsters are the Israeli and US governments.
What? This is war. Killing the enemy is what happens in a war.
Yeah, and this is anti-war.com, asshole.
“We’re not in a position to confirm the specific reports,” Kirby told reporters at a press briefing. “I would just tell you that al-Houri was a noted designated global terrorist and, if he is in fact dead, nobody should be shedding a tear over his loss.”
“Designating” someone as a terrorist is what makes it all legitimate. Without that designation you can be an apartheid practicing regime in the midst of conducting a full-blown genocide in broad daylight that makes the “designated” terrorist look amateurish in comparison. And that same asshole will say our unwavering support is ironclad and the check, as always, is in the mail.
Biden and his entire team are a disgrace not only to the US political system but to the human race as well.