Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday claimed there was “no evidence” of genocide in Gaza despite the massive civilian casualties.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked Austin if he believed genocide was being committed in Gaza in response to protesters who disrupted a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. The demonstrators said the US was complicit in genocide by supporting Israel.
“I want to address what the protesters raised earlier. Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?” Cotton asked.
Austin replied, “We don’t have any evidence of genocide.” His comments align with the US government’s rejection of the International Court of Justice ruling that it’s “plausible” Israel is committing genocide.
According to the antiwar group CODEPINK, peace activists disrupted the hearing 25 times. ” We are obviously here to say stop the complicity, stop the sending of weapons, stop the sharing of intelligence, just killing so many people, just stop the blood on your hands,” said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin.
One activist who disrupted the hearing said he lost over 100 family members in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. “Stop killing my people in Gaza. You’re responsible for this genocide; you have killed over 100 members of my family,” the activist said.
The latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry put the death toll at over 33,000, including over 14,000 children, which doesn’t account for thousands of people under the rubble. Israel supporters in the US have cast doubt on the Health Ministry’s numbers, but the Hebrew-language news site Local Call reported in January that the Israeli military determined the figures were reliable and used them to estimate how many civilians they’ve killed.
Typical Palestinians. Start a war. Lose the war. Cry for help. Then repeat.
Liar.
8 minute video of oblivious IDF getting pummeled by Arab resistance says the IDF is losing badly
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zanna-operation-video-released-the-resistance-roundup-day-186/#
Is he really lying, or just babbling incoherently like Mr. Don?
“Is he really lying, or just babbling incoherently like Mr. Don?”
That is the eternal question. Is it a case of stupidity, or calculation?
It seems like nobody could believe the excrement that TB slings. But, in the immortal words of Fats Waller: “One never knows, does one?”
Israel allowed it to happen. There was plenty of foreknowledge of the attack plan. There had to be. Israel resources included Mossad, Shin Bet, listening posts in Cyprus, and U.S. posts scattered around the area. I am sure Israel had spied in Gaza, and there were reports from Israelis of the weird practicing by Palestinians on the other side of the walls and barbed wire. IDF units were ordered to stand down, then were ordered to move hours later, then the IDF sent Apache helicopters, tanks, to engage the fighters, killing something like 400 Israelis. The “keep out of jail” card for Bibi.
Typical Israel, bomb the crap out of Gaza (Cast Lead, Protective Edge), kill thousands, claim defense.
Typical Russia; invade and annex sovereign land then commit genocide of Ukrainians then deny it all and play victim.
And you support that.
Typical Israelis. Keep people in an open air prison for decades. Act shocked when they escape. Demand America bail them out. Then repeat.
Typical six grade level comment from
FrankTim Burns.In other words, simplistic Neoconesque talking points.
Oh the satire! you are too funny..trying to provoke outrage by knowingly lying for humor’s sake. Go Bibi Go!!
The 400+ Israelis massacred that day by the IDF figure comes from Israeli sources
In a manner of speaking he is correct. There is no “evidence” of Genocide in Gaza, because there is no Gaza left to look for such evidence.
That’s some cute mental gymnastics… (and I know you are only joking)
But let it be said that in reality, all the videos from Gaza are ample evidence. Also the perpetrators have announced their crime in advance. Israeli officials have literally confessed beforehand, announcing they will cut off the supply of electricity, food and water to Gaza. That’s the exact same thing as announcing a genocide.
These people are evil personified.
“Secretary of Genocide”. perfect.
His proclamation is meaningless because he is a partisan tool who knows who butters his bread.
Yup, just another servant of the donor class who dictates what the plutocracy known as the “federal government” does.
Austin will eventually be tried for war crimes under the Yamashita Standard of Command Responsibility
But not before Putin.
I love CodePink and have loved them for the past 20+ years.
Sadly, the bombs keep dropping, but theyre always there to stand up for justice and remind the government of the blood on their hands. They just don’t have Northrop Grumman and Raytheon as sponsors, so of course, the government doesn’t listen to them.
He should have held up a small bottle of white powder as proof that people are out of their minds.
i guess as long as there is even one Palestinian left then it is not really genocide.
right uncle sam?
“Calls me anything you want – just don’tst calls me late fo dinner”.
Says the minstrel show clown.
There was no slavery in the US.
The man is either a complete idiot or a liar.
The current regime: absolutely the most incompetent, vicious, hate-infested pile of excrement in US history.
The Biden administration will be remembered for its many efforts to bring on WWIII.
If anyone is left to remember…
Some who have worked with him already said they think it is both, liar and idiot. Useful idiot because he’s so willing to lie to please.
That’s why they liked Colin Powell. One reason, anyway. He was known among the Elite as a “fixer”, would do anything they asked. He allegedly felt “bad” about it sometimes. Whatever.
like lying about finding uranium from niger going to [saddam] iraq.Remember all the hunts looking for it after the invasion/occupation? Remember sometimes we got a ; We Found it! but alas, it wa not meant to be but,,,a false flag…
The man is known to be utterly incompetent. He wouldn’t fit well within the Biden administration if he weren’t.
But this isn’t an instantiation of this feat. It is not impossible but nevertheless very difficult for any US government to admit a deliberate adoption of a policy of complicity in genocide. He might be stupid enough to actually believe his denials or he might not. That really doesn’t matter. Nothing is to be expected of this man, which is why he is where he is.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is the brilliant guy who quitted his job to be hospitalized without telling anybody, including the White House and his boss.
These are the guys running important departments in the Biden administration.
No wonder that everything is falling apart.
So big picture, what if Trump dies from natural causes before the election and this hot mess of a world you have been building the last 3 years you get stuck with instead of handing it off to the evil orange one?
Black man arming and supporting the state terrorists killing Palestinians. That’s the Democrats’ DEI fakery. And BTW, where are those intrepid “anti-fascists” now that the US is arming two fascist countries? Anyone seen Antifa lately?
Sorry, the US is not arming Russia. Where’d you get that from?
quack quack
Does Austin know what War Crimes are? Does he know the meaning of Genocide according to International Laws? Does he know what International Laws are? At this point, I don’t think the collective IQ of those serving in D.C., qualifies them for advancement to Middle School.
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Serving nefarious interests since 1948
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No GENOCIDE, Only just 30,000 dead women& & children. Too bad about all the big mouthed Zionists talking about “Erasing the Children” doesn’t fit well with the slaughter and denials of GENOCIDE & or any GENOCIDAL INTENT. No the Psychopathic yen of mass murder is explicit…!!!!! What a clown this lying black stooge is and SHOULD BE AN UGLY EMBARRASSMENT TO HIS ENTIRE RACE. One more BLACK STOOGE LIKE CONDOLISA RICE. Nauseating nonsense fron this stooge is perverted.
Okay but how about systematic war crimes?
Austin replied, “We don’t have any evidence of genocide. We haven’t looked close, we aren’t looking and aren’t going to – it’s basically ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ but the victims are people we care even less about.”
Saying this, in his position, makes him a proper defendant in future war crimes trials.
Austin needs to take the log out of his eye.
That’s like Putin saying there’s no evidence of Genocide in Ukraine.
The man is taking on an ape-like appearance. Maybe this comes with lying so much.
He also said they don’t have any evidence of Israel NOT committing genocide 🤐
I haven’t been this convinced since Al Capone declared that he was nothing more than an honest Chicago businessman.
Semantics. Then what the fuck is it? Ethnic cleansing? Mass murder? Collective punishment? It’s like as long as it doesn’t reach the threshold of genocide in that thick head of his, or any of our other thick headed “officials”, then it’s acceptable behavior.
Austin told that he did not belive this was a genocide because no Unger fleeing West Bank did not cite the number 6.
“In January 1944, Ungar was the first – to the best of my knowledge – to cite the number six million as the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/who-came-up-with-the-number-of-jews-murdered-in-the-holocaust-625678
Brain. Dead.