Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send a delegation of officials to the US to discuss Israeli plans to attack Rafah, the southern Gaza city on the Egyptian border that’s packed with 1.5 million Palestinians.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Netanyahu agreed to send “a senior interagency team composed of military, intelligence and humanitarian officials” during a phone call with President Biden on Monday.
The US has warned Israel against a full-scale assault on the city without taking into account the safety of the civilians who are there. Israeli officials have said they will evacuate the civilians to “humanitarian islands,” but it’s not clear where the locations are, and Israel has attacked so-called “safe zones” throughout its campaign in Gaza.
“Israel has not presented us or the world with a plan for how or where they would safely move those civilians, let alone feed and house them and ensure access to basic things like sanitation,” Sullivan said.
Despite growing international pressure, Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed he will go ahead with the Rafah invasion. Netanyahu’s office announced that he approved Israeli military plans to attack the city on Friday, but a timeline for when the assault will be launched is not known.
Media reports have said Biden is considering conditioning military aid to Israel if it attacks Rafah without protecting civilians. But US officials told ABC News that they’re actually thinking about increasing military support for Israel to incentivize less civilian casualties even though US aid and political cover has only emboldened Israel to carry out such a brutal slaughter.
So far, the US-backed onslaught has killed over 31,000 Palestinians, including at least 13,000 children, though the true death toll is likely much higher since the numbers don’t take into account the thousands who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
No person representing Netanyahu and his Genocide, should be allowed into the USA. We do not harbor War Criminals, or do we?
Do we harbor war criminals? Of course we do. All the wars of this century have been wars of aggression. “The Nuremberg Military Tribunal agreed with the prosecution that aggression was the gravest charge against the accused, stating in its judgment that because ‘war is essentially an evil thing’, to initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime.” (Wikipedia)
We put some NAZIS to work in our brand new CIA. The recruiter? Allen Dulles.
Absolutely true. Hell, Dulles was playing footsie with Nazis in Italy before the war ended.
Brother of John Foster Dulles,another piece of shit.
Yes, US definitely harbors criminals and dictators such as Shah of Iran…!
And right now we are harboring Genocide Joe…..
He was dying of cancer. I believe he was transferred to Mexico.
Panama…!
They are arriving to tell Biden and his toadies Blinken and Sullivan how it is, no discussion. More than likely they will be placing new orders for weapons and money as well.
If you vote someone down, say why or ya look like a putz!…
Hi there, I know that you and Dean have a history, and now that he’s gone from Disqus, do you know any more information? You seemed to know when his computer blew out when no one else was forthcoming with what was happening. The only thing I can think of that would keep him from being a keyboard warrior is that he is going to prison.
He may also have a serious health issue.
I can’t imagine any health issue preventing him from reaching that keyboard!
Could be, but with his personality I think he would be open about it being a medical issue, it would win the sympathy of a lot of people.
I can’t picture him being interested in discussing his condition if it was brought about by AIDS. All the years I’ve observed him, I got the impression that he was an angry and petulant gay dude.
Just like Terje!
Indeed we do, remembering the good times on Mother Jones…sigh. I have no idea what happened to him, never really said why he was in Costa Rica never to return to the US in spite of obsessions with American politics. As an expat myself, I return to the US every year for at least a month so I can’t imagine staying away for that long unless there was a legal or tax issue preventing one from returning.
So Genocide Joe is inviting an Israeli delegation over to talk about how to best waste yet another Gaza city rather than discussing how to achieve a peace. Tells us where Genocide Joe’s allegiance lies.
That is already known. Since 1973.
“Humanitarian officials.”
What a joke. Fuk Biden and his fake concern for the palestinians.
“a senior interagency team composed of military, intelligence and humanitarian officials,” “humanitarian islands,” and “safe zones” are just examples of Sullivan’s limitless creative side. The problem is no matter how you embellish in describing $hit, it remains $hit.
Instead of one, big concentration camp, there will be smaller ones scattered about in Gaza and the West Bank. So very nice, you see. The remaining Palestinians will not have to die in the tent city in the Sinai desert, then can die in those camps, Close to home. Isn’t that wonderful? Israel and the U.S. of Atrocities are such beacons of humanity.
“Israel has not presented us or the world with a plan for how or where they would safely move those civilians, let alone feed and house them and ensure access to basic things like sanitation,” Sullivan said.
And suddenly this is a concern? This shit has been ongoing for five fucking months.
75 years
The Zionists’ organized and purposeful ethnic cleansing of Palestine was underway no later than the first of January, 1948. So, call it 76 years, two months and 18 days.
Yes, the question is, When will the lid come off? … or, to begin with, a blockade?
A stinking joke, we are. “Discuss” killing more Palestinians. Like, wow.
“Humanitarian officials.”
What a joke.
Hamas leaders are not very concerned for the well being of their people,bringing great destruction and suffering down on their heads.
Hamas is an inspiration to the caring world. The obscene brutishness of your insensate remarks only adds poignancy.
“Humanitarian Islands” … Who wouldn’t want to go there! They clearly learned a lot from the Nazis, to emulate them even in this. Let’s hope the Gazans are aware these are death camps.
They’re all the same kind of Evil Humans…!
As if Hamas,Hezbollah, and their master are good.
They have not presented US a plan because there is None…! The idea is the Extermination of Gaza Palestinians…!
That is all……………
Trying to hunt down Hamas and eliminate them-very just. Trying to keep away people who hate and kill you-veryy just. Problem is that Israel will never be able to get all of them,and new ones will spring up in a few years.
More stalling, while the slaughtering of defenseless Human Beings continues. Our Republic should stop swallowing and talking the Israeli BS and tell them they are NOT welcome in the USA. America needs to take a stand against War Criminals, not engage in helping them continue their Genocide. Who STOPS this Genocide, who will stop the Zionist THUGS, who will be labeled a hero in the History Books? NOT America, we will be known as the collaborators, helping the Zionist Israelis commit GENOCIDE!