During the debate of the State Department funding bill, the House added a provision that would bar American diplomats from citing statistics from the Gaza Health Ministry. The amendment would prevent American diplomats from discussing the casualty figures produced by the Palestinian agency.
On Thursday, the House voted 269-144 for an amendment to the Department of State appropriations bill proposed by a bipartisan group led by Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). The provision “prohibits funds appropriated by this act to be made available for the State Department to cite statistics obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry.”
The amendment received bipartisan support. All but 14 Republicans voted yes, with Reps. Paul Gosar (AZ) and Matt Rosendale (MT) are the only no votes. The Democrats split support 69-114. The Democratic leadership in the House elected not to endorse or oppose the amendment.
During Israel’s nearly nine-month-long onslaught in Gaza, the Health Ministry has recorded nearly 38,000 deaths and 85,000 injuries. Many of those injured have life-altering wounds. The head of the UN Palestinian Aid Agency (UNRWA) estimates that over 2,000 children, or nearly ten per day, have lost legs since October 7.
Prior to Israel’s most recent military campaign in Gaza, the casualty figures were generally considered accurate and regularly cited by Western media. During Israel’s “Swords of Iron” operations, the corporate press has started to slant cover of those numbers by asserting Hamas runs the health ministry whenever the numbers are reported.
However, many human rights groups and officials believe the official figures are an undercount. Save the Children estimates that in addition to the 15,000 dead Palestinian children counted by the health ministry, an additional 4,000 are uncounted because their bodies have not been recovered.
During the debate over Moskowitz’s amendment, Rep Rashida Tlaib blasted the provisions as being a part of the decades-long coordinated effort by the House to “erase Palestinians from existence.”
“Today, we are witnessing the apartheid Israeli government carry out a genocide in real-time. This amendment is an attempt to hide it.” She added, “My colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all.”
It’s disgusting that my colleagues would support legislation to prohibit U.S. officials from even citing the Palestinian death toll.
They want to erase the Palestinians who are living, and now they are trying to erase the Palestinians who are dead. This is genocide denial. pic.twitter.com/ZY3x0BIlQ0
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) June 27, 2024
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
And who will be entrusted to give us an accurate number? I can only imagine. But this just proves how much control a foreign country has on our congress. Is it that hard to do math for these imbeciles? Just considering the mere tonnage of bombs dropped on such a densely populated area would make one think that they should be embracing Hamas' numbers. Then add to that the humanitarian crises that was deliberately created and it's hard to believe anyone would think Hamas numbers are anything but a humongous undercount. But elections are nearing and those campaigns have got to be financed.
Massie voted for this? I thought he was an independent thinker.
According to the link in the article he voted "not voting"
Thanks, missed it.
Isn't denying the current Holocaust prosecutable?
Blinken, of course.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f93c535b4a6ce41b6c55b80129f8ebfb9dff6ca808bc17d0780bfb103069a3fa.jpg
Graphic and true:
https://t.me/s/eyeonpal
Eye on Palestine
A little child suffers from serious burns all over his body after the bombing of his family's home in Gaza.
Search “burns” on page.
@HossamShabat
Only one Palestinian-American represented in the US congress and they're hoping they can kick her out as soon as they can. So much for "diversity".
Politicians are shysters, people without honor, yes there are exceptions, she is one of them, the few deserve even more all our respect. It is not much we can do but we can let her know we support her.
Congress does not represent the Constitution. Congress is a WEAPON for the Zionist, making sure Americans hear only their Propaganda, their LIES and one BIG FU to the Constitution. Biden's Administration are Israelis, flying around pretending to be American Diplomats and we wonder why Netanyahu continues his Genocide of Palestinians and then wants to HIDE the numbers of those SLAUGHTERED? NO Nation should be accepting any of Biden's Israeli Soldiers into their countries, they are WAR Criminals, calling themselves Americans. They are NOT Americans, they are Soldiers for the Zionist State of Israel. What Congress does not understand, is that Americans KNOW they LIE, we get our news/information elsewhere. Vote OUT all the Reps/Dems this November, you want change, then vote OUT all the Zionist in Congress and SAVE our Republic.
Israel owns the Pentagon. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkoski on Judging Freedom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wDed-eyAU
Kudos for this! Truth and Peace go hand in hand!!!
Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
A settler-Colonial land.
The Promised Land.
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land of no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Preservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
No!, genocide is here to stay.
Why? Because election year or not Israel's supporters pay United States government representatives to obey.
Wait, all social and economic leaders in America and the "Western World" take Israel's supporters money, it's the only winning game to play.
Different names for the same thing, ethnic cleansing and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
dennis hanna
Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
A settler Colonial land.
The Promised Land.
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land of no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Preservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
Different names for the same thing,
Ethnic cleaning and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
dennis hanna
The Indian Wars in North America ended over 150 YEARS ago. We were supposed to have "evolved" a bit since 1870 and 1943. The total deliberate destruction of a civilian population in Gaza is something we are witnessing right now in our own time AD 2024.
Ginah, our elections are rigged by big money lobbyists, even Trump knows that, yet he is in bed with them too.
Erasing, hiding, forgetting. Just make it vanish. The killing. The babies with their heads blown off, legs missing, arms missing. The killing. My country is so f*cked.
Israeli censorship in the USA?
This is such blatant BS
Now I understand why they want to ban Tik Tok. If only they could get those young people to stop using their eyes and ears and just mindless consume whatever the government bukakes into their faces like those loyal boomers who still think they aren't ruled by criminals (mostly because the criminal run economy has been good to them). Yes I know that not all boomers believe the propaganda, but it seems I don't see too many non-boomers buying it.
"Yes I know that not all boomers believe the propaganda"
Thanks, because we don't.
"but it seems I don't see too many non-boomers buying it".
To quote Metallica, "Sad but true".
Maybe because the criminal economy is run by criminal boomers and they like it and convince other boomers to like it?
I'm not a boomer, but I LOVE the "criminal economy," if by that phrase you mean the part of the economy operating partially or wholly outside state control.
Thomas, naturally, if the economy is good to you, you love it, nothing wrong with that.
We have no control of big corporations and their political connections. I don't know, just guessing, corporate business has become less ethical, local companies used to support local communities, big corporations work to cut taxes and increase profits keeping wages and benefits low, and to hell with communities. That is my observation.
But when were corporations or big businesses ever ethical?
Most Americans were farmers or cheap labor. You can read about what happened during the dust bowl and how the banks bought up all the family farms. Then, they were forced to flee to cities where they became cheap labor. As well, millions of
people came through Ellis and Angel islands at the turn of the century to be used as cheap labor by the railroad, steel mill,textile mill, factories and other industries that were booming at the time. These industries exploited these people forcing them to work very long hours in very dangerous, abusive, and horrible conditions on pennies, which bought them a room in a tenement house surrounded by other exploited families. Children were even forced to work. I'm sure you know this history. It wasn't until the workers organized strikes when the robber barons finally gave in (and not after many many years of fighting these strikes with scab workers-which were other desperate people- and even killing their own workers with Pinkerton guards, )So, in reality, if there were any companies that actually cared for the community, it was in a very slim amount of time. So maybe only one or two generations benefited from this until the corporations gained some of their power back, meaning the boomer generation is the only generation that really had a fair shot and not even that fully.
Thomas, we need honorable government and a just and moral judicial branch of government. Our elected officials should write the laws serving the nation not corporate lobbyists. That is a national problem.
It's not a national problem, it's a global problem. Because it's in the nature of government.
You are right, but we did have times when politicians really wanted to serve the nation, usually after lost wars like the WWs and Vietnam. Now we don’t have a draft anymore, there will be no mea culpas from our guilty war criminals who provoked the disasters.
"I LOVE the 'criminal economy'…the part of the economy operating partially or wholly outside state control."
yea, boo on the mommy state drug enforcement agency seizing fentanyl
Whenever you hear any US diplomat speak you already knew they are lying as they defend the indefensible. And now you will know they are lying by law. The stench of death emanates from their mouths, and not because they are dead inside.
Next they will vote to have Medicare treat fevers by painting thermometers black.
Something else they don’t want you to see. Don’t bother with youtube, they make you log in. Instead of numbers
this film interviews people and their experiences of terror and loss. It’s less gruesome than some of the things out there. But it is emotionally heart wrenching. Being reminded of gov’t talking head responses is also infuriating.
‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.
https://www.aljazeera.com/p…
It is heartbreaking, but the people who should see it don't, another docu. is Where olive trees weep.
Bunch of sick fucks we have in DC. What a trash heap.
The hands down triumph of post-modernism. Zionazism is now the only Truth.
More than 90% of the nations congressmembers are just million $$$ dehumanized human trash.
What a shame for the nation, the two candidates in the presidential debate last night showed how low the nations democracy has sunk.
It cannot be called a true democracy… It's rather a two senior citizens' drama show…!
Only losers would act like that, they have no credibility and fear every bit of honest reporting. Their lying confirms how bad things are.
Stupid people obviously making stupid laws…!
Obviously israel has more influence in America than Americans. Maybe this is why Biden is still a candidate, he's a proud zionist and will send $/arms no matter what. To think people worry about 'foreign influence', so laughable when obviously Americans don run America any more. Another win for fascism!
Shhh, it's a secret!
Vice News 1/25/24
"Israeli Intelligence Has Deemed Hamas-Run Health Ministry's Death Toll Figures Generally Accurate
"Senior Israel officials are using the Gaza Health Ministry's death numbers internally, months after both Israel and the U.S. claimed those figures should not be trusted.
"Israeli intelligence services have studied civilian casualty figures released by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza and concluded the figures were generally accurate, despite earlier public claims by U.S. and Israeli officials that the ministry’s statistics are manipulated."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w4w7/israeli-intelligence-health-ministry-death-toll
What needs to happen is the dissolution of the Democratic and Republican parties, new elections which are restricted to qualified candidates (educated people who understand and can recite the Constitution and Declaration of Rights, who know both US and World history, who possess IQ's above 100, etc), together with the permanent removal of all private money from state and national politics, and removal of all foreign based organizations representing foreign interests from US politics – in any form.
“new elections which are restricted to qualified candidates”
The qualifications for president are:
1) Natural-born citizen;
2) At least 35 years of age;
3) Resident in the United States for at least 14 years.
Which is precisely why our system is a complete failure. I spoke to what is needed – not what led us to this sorry state.
Are you a lawyer?
I should add that a lot of people don't think about the fact that the founders were educated (by and large) and that the founders probably assumed that educated people would be the ones running for office and voting. As with slavery, standards that were applied fit the times. Doesn't mean they work today. This is the trouble with the "law", and by extension, a primitive statement of qualifications, when judged against today's requirements and complexity.
No, I'm not a lawyer.
But I can read the Constitution, and there's no way to implement your scheme FOR the US without dissolving the US.