The White House on Monday again denied that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza despite the massive number of civilian casualties and the continued restrictions on aid as Palestinians are facing starvation.
“We believe Israel can and must do more to ensure the protection and wellbeing of innocent civilians. We do not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide,” White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. “We have been firmly on record rejecting that proposition.”
The US has rejected the ruling from the International Court of Justice that it’s “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. If Israel is found guilty of genocide, it would implicate Sullivan and other US officials as they have provided military and political support to enable the slaughter.
Sullivan said the US was “using the internationally accepted term for genocide, which includes a focus on intent” to reach its assessment on Israeli actions.
In its genocide case against Israel, South Africa cited comments from Israeli officials as evidence of Israel’s intent to commit genocide against the Palestinians living in Gaza. Notable quotes include Israeli Defense Yoav Gallant saying Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reference to the Amalek, a nation the ancient Israelites were commanded to destroy in the Hebrew Bible.
Chapter 15, verse 3 of the first book of Samuel reads: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel, and ass.”
The genocidal rhetoric hasn’t stopped as Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich made a reference to Amalek just last month when he called for the “total annihilation” of Rafah and other cities in Gaza. “There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven,” he said.
Denial is part of the 10 step program.
Except there is no “10 steps” for the US government, only one step: support genocide and anything else Israel wants to do.
Duh! Big surprise…not.
There are videos of Israeli protestors destroying food aid (again) still waiting for sanctions. Russia didn’t commit a fraction of the war crimes Israel is doing, yet they were sanctioned endlessly.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/total-outrage-white-house-condemns-israeli-settlers-attack-on-gaza-aid-convoy
Well Einstein supposedly said that their are only two infinities in reality: the universe and human stupidity, not being sure about the universe. If Einstein were alive today he’d be sure to add a third: Western hypocrisy. And maybe ask if a single universe is large enough to contain it.
Did anyone there follow up with the check and mate question where Sullivan snookers himself trying to explain what constitutes a genocide?
Not if they wanted to keep their press pass they didn’t.
This
“Genocide”, is a word, with much familiarity, indeed, to all of us and it is a word that should remind us, of the importance concerning the sanctity of all human life and certainly ALL Life. War and the immorality of it, can consume US.
Is it Classicide or Democide or a combination of both.
It matters not what the US says about Israel’s genocide, the western thumbs have failed to prevent the damn from cracking.
● May 2nd the General Conference of The United Methodist Church voted to divest from Israel bonds, the first of a major Christian denomination.
● Four US universities have made agreements with protesters about Israeli divestments.
● May 11 Egypt announced it will join SA’s ICJ case against Israel
● Four more countries have announced they will be recognizing the Palestine state bringing the total to 144.
● May 11 SA submitted an urgent request to the ICJ for additional provisional measures against Israel.
● And the same day the first “Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine” began in SA.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-an-apartheid-state
https://antiapartheid.net/
Any of the universities in states with anti-BDS laws? That should be interesting.
WW no state is better qualified to lead the fight against Israel apartheid than South Africa. Organized opposition to SA apartheid began in 1960; between 1990 and 1994 all apartheid legislation was repealed and a new constitution enacted enfranchising blacks and other racial minorities. For South Africa the legacy of Nelson Mandela remains for them to complete:
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” – Nelson Mandela, 1997 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
States w/BDS Laws: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation#google_vignette
Brown, Rhode Island = Y
Johns Hopkins, MD = Y
Rutgers, NJ = Y
University of Minnesota = Y
University of California, Riverside = Y
“Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war
“Columbia University’s faculty of theology…maintains a separate endowment. [It] is the first U.S. institute of higher education known to divest from the war in Gaza.
“Calls for divestment have been a major demand of students participating in sit-ins and encampments….Union’s student body actively supported the dissenting Columbia students whose tents filled the university’s main quad in past weeks.”
(Religion News Service, May 9, 2024)
I just read where people are blocking celebrities on social media, for not speaking out against the genocide. Supposedly those with a large following are attached to more advertising. Less followers, less advertising reach is the goal. I may not have this completely accurate because I don’t partake in X or facebook, etc. but it sounds like a good plan “on paper” anyway.
Hollywood and largely the music industry have been silent, or conversely, supportive of Biden, and the massacre.
Seinfeld’s movie tanked, I understand?
But macklemore sure blasted the establishment!
Hopeful signs, but it does matter that the US regime denies participating in genocide while it knowingly participates in genocide. They don’t have other facts than the ICJ has or they would have presented it to them. Israel in the meantime is providing them with facts.
The US governmental system itself is full of despicable maniacs uttering almost caricatural genocidal language directed against Palestinians.
Incitement to genocide is a crime under international law.
Complicity in genocide is a crime under international law.
These are crimes the US is denying it is committing while committing them. This is what the US stands for now. This what the West stands for now. It is a tragedy in and of itself.
And this is what the DNC wants us to vote for in November, to tell the world that American citizens are just fine with genocide and ethnic cleansing. We already proved that we were fine with wantonly invading other countries which had done nothing to us, with torture, kidnapping, and indefinite detention without charges under Shrub, with drone-murdering people around the world, including American citizens, with no due process under Obama, with having a head of state who is not only dumber than Shrub but certifiably mentally ill in Rump. So our downward spiral continues.
Of course it matters we deny this genocide, who we are matters more.
It matters we’re the only country to have used nuclear weapons with an estimated 1/4M dead though the true number will never be known so destroyed were those two cities.
It matters since World War II’s end we’ve used our military to kill some 20 million people, have overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to, or did, assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries.
Of course it matters we’re complicit in genocide, all the suffering, death and destruction we’ve spread across the world for 75 years matters. In WW polling Gallup and Pew repeatedly find the US is believed to be “the greatest threat to peace in the world.”
We are and we will not stop until we are stopped. That’s why those “hopeful signs” matter more than what we say. Better the international community stops us than WW3.
Off topic. Today is Israel’s 76 birthday. That 76 years of disappointment for the Anti-Israel group. Any many more years of disappointment to come for the Israel haters.
“Today is Israel’s 76 birthda-”
Bet I know what lil’ tim-tim wants on his happy day…
IDF Whistleblower REVEALS TORTURE CAMPS To CNN
Well, some people have an aversion to ethnic cleansing and the concerted effort to pretend the nakbah never happened. It’s a mystery to me, how seemingly intelligent people can ignore the facts of Israel’s birth. How do you ignore history like that? It must be a religious thing, are you a Christian zionist or a jewish one? Or just a Zionist who believes some chosen people are superior to others based on their beliefs? Or is it simply a hatred of Islam? Seriously, how do you do it?
History is clear. The Arabs tried to kill the new nation of Israel. They failed. Like many wars there were refugees. That is a fact. No one is denying that.
And Israel survived two more serious attempts to destroy it again in 1967 and 1973.
In the 76 years Israel build a successful nation. And refugees from that 1948 war became terrorists.
Seriously, why do hate Israel?
“In the 76 years Israel build a successful nation.”
Successful enough to stop cashing those US taxpayer welfare checks?
“ The generals pressured and cajoled Eshkol to destroy Egypt’s army. On May 23, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Ezer Weizman spoke of the need to “strike now and swiftly”. Israel’s military commander at the time, Yitzhak Rabin, added, “First we’ll strike Egypt, and then we’ll fight Syria and Jordan as well.”
Several days later, the USSR informed Eshkol that Nasser had relayed an unequivocal message through a Soviet ambassador on May 27 that “Egypt does not want war and is not heading in that direction”.
To assuage Israel, US President Lyndon Johnson urged Eshkol not to succumb to his warmongering generals, assuring him that the US would sponsor international efforts to open the Strait of Tiran while promising economic and military aid if it was given an opportunity to resolve the Egyptian blockade peacefully.
When briefed on the US offer, Israeli generals lectured Eshkol on the prospect of expanding Israel’s borders. General Ariel Sharon, who would himself go on to be prime minster, stressed that the question “isn’t the [Strait of Tiran] passage”.
Newly released records and public statements prove that Israeli leaders later acknowledged that the June 1967 war was neither pre-emptive nor defensive. In an interview in 1968, Rabin was quoted as saying, “I don’t believe that Nasser wanted war… He knew it and we knew it.”
In 1982, the then Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, said: “(The) Egyptian army concentration in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us… We decided to attack him.”
Despite this, most in the West continue to adopt Israel’s false narrative of the Palestine-Israel conflict since 1948, with a compliant pro-Israel media more or less preventing candid discussion of the subject. In effect, this allows Israel to maintain the longest, cruellest military occupation in modern history.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140125-the-real-story-of-the-six-day-war/amp/
Honestly, my hatred for Israel is a recent development. I have been horrified by their cruel treatment of Palestinians for at least 30yrs, but this is a whole new chapter. There is a universal outcry calling the move into rafah as final proof of genocide. The unapologetic language used by Netanyahu and his cabinet is genocidal, the intentional starvation of millions civilians is genocide the use of children as human shields isa war crime, the arrest of thousands with torture ans executions are war crimes. I firmly am opposed to any nation engaging in genocide. The constant cry of antisemitism to cover genocide, the doxxing, the lies, the medis bias hss fuel an avalanche of hate for istsel, not because they’re jewish, but because they are committing genocide at this very moment and are only escalating this murderous campaign.
Is there a single crime against humanity Israel has not committed? How can any human approve of genocide, especially supporters of Israel and jews?
A nation formed in response to genocide committing genocide is reprehensible.
Life long indoctrination of propaganda and the suppression of historical documents that tell a very different story. Then there is the pain of cognitive dissonance, coming to terms with how one views “ self” in support of something that has been built on lies, myth and deception. It’s easier to maintain ignorance than to open one’s eyes to reality.
And then there are psychopaths.
What’s next? Are they going to deny that water is wet?
They already said “war is peace”.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’