The Trump administration has doubled down on its position that Hamas is to blame for Israeli troops executing 15 Palestinian medical workers in Gaza, even after a video showed that the Israeli military was lying about the incident.
The IDF initially claimed its forces opened fire on vehicles that were advancing “suspiciously” and had no headlights or flashing emergency lights. But a video recorded by the phone of an executed paramedic showed the ambulances they were driving had emergency lights on when the IDF opened fire.
“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose. To help people,” said Palestinian medic Refaat Radwan moments before he was killed.
The Israeli soldiers tried to cover up the crime by burying the 15 medics and their ambulances in a shallow grave. The IDF has since changed its story, acknowledging the lights were flashing and that they opened fire on unarmed men but claiming six of them were linked to Hamas while offering no evidence.
Despite the clear evidence of a war crime, the US is still backing the IDF’s conduct. “Hamas uses ambulances and more broadly human shields for terrorism,” White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes told Reuters. “President Trump understands the impossible situation this tactic creates for Israel and holds Hamas entirely responsible.”
Before the video came out, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce was asked about the executions and also said that Hamas was to blame. “Every single thing that is happening in Gaza is happening because of Hamas. Every single dynamic,” she said.
On Monday, Hamas responded to Hughes’s statement and denied that it uses ambulances for military purposes. Hamas wrote on Telegram that the statement represents “a horrific example of unethical solidarity with the Nazis of our time, in their brutal war against innocent civilians and humanitarian organizations.”
“Hughes’ accusations against Hamas for using ambulances are nothing but lies, lacking any evidence. The US administration, along with the war criminal Netanyahu’s government, is spreading these falsehoods to justify their horrific and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers,” Hamas added.
The Israeli soldiers tried to cover up the crime by burying the 15 medics and their ambulances in a shallow grave.
Tough to explain that away. But luckily for the terrorists with no peers, they won't have to.
The IDF has since changed its story, acknowledging the lights were flashing and that they opened fire on unarmed men but claiming six of them were linked to Hamas while offering no evidence.
So, they killed all 15 UNARMED men and then determined that 6 of them were linked to Hamas. Did they do the investigation to determine that "link" before or after they buried them in that shallow grave? I mean, they don't even have to try anymore. Why not just say they killed them because they're Palestinians and skip the fairy tales. The result will be the same. More weapons deliveries.
No evidence is ever needed to explain the actions of the most moral military in the world. Back to reeducation camp!
… And they provide the same crap intelligence to US to massacre Yemenis civilians…!
Didn’t the Israelis do exactly that when they gunned down hundreds of Palestinians in a ham fisted attempt at freeing hostages?
You have not learned, back to reeducation camp with you:
Israel is always a victim.
Israel is supremely moral.
Israel is your best friend.
Israel always tells the truth.
Palestinians Always lie.
Palestinians are all terrorists.
My memory hole is on the fritz.
The U.S.S. Liberty attack was just a "mistake", nothing intentional. Never mind the machine gunning of sailors fighting for their lives in the water and on lifeboats.
Johnson had Navy jets enroute to take on the Israeli jets, that a few dead American sailors were not as important as "not embarrassing an ally".
On the bright side for Russia, Putin gets a break from being called the cause of all bad things in the world.
Soon Iran will be saying, “hold my beer”.
And the shitshow of stupidity endures.
Theater of the absurd, later the WH asserts that women wearing shorts on the street deserve to be assaulted.
"We are the nazis".
Bin Laden Says US Regime ‘Entirely Responsible’ for 9/11
A janitor alleged that there were explosions in the basement of one of the Trade Towers. William Rodriguez.
And that's actually true, even if Bin Laden never said so.
They knew… and let it happened…!
And danced to the screams of their victims.
Netanyahu said that the attack was "good for Israel".
Of course… it made Larry Silverstein $7 billion…!
Building 7… “Bring It Down”…!
Are you convinced of it?
I am. Just like I'm convinced Israel let Oct 7th happen. You have to break some eggs to make an omelet.
Absolutely! Netanyahu knew that the world would be on their side and he could finish the genocide once and for all.
The world – except the USA – has changed its mind since then but feels powerless against two countries with nukes that they both admitted using if necessary.
Unfortunately many european countries haven't changed their minds either: Germany, Albion, Netherlands, Hungary …
Well, I never thought that of 9/11, not into it.
As for the Hamas attack: there has been some reporting on what you write, and I've been thinking that too. Because the Zionists have a motive: the attack gives them a pretext to escalate their project. They're doing good business.
It's much worse than that: they did it (and let the blame fall on their petty sockpuppet: Bin Laden, the CIA man in Afghanistan, who vanished soon afterwards).
I am now 1000% certain that Hamas shot Brian Thompson to death in Manhatten. I just hope Luigi Mangoine's Jury aren't a bunch of anti-semites and that they come to this very reasonable conclusion as well.
Why do you think that?
I would guess he was being sarcastic. Or maybe you were.
Because Luigi was helping me fix a flat tire at the time. Flattened because Hamas threw nails all over my driveway.
The West are enabling genocide in Palestine, which begs the question. How are we different to the Nazis in WW2?
America armed and financed both sides in WW2, and in Vietnam. Both were proxy wars.
We are not.
"The US is still backing Israel over the executions even after a video showed the IDF was lying about the incident"
The lesson for every war criminal Zionist soldier?
'Forget bulldozing the bodies under next time – you can do anything. Anything.'
Aren't they feeling silly for putting in all that extra effort now!
There is no bottom. The USA is a perfect submissive, and has apparently experienced the ego death desired by some of the hippie drug cult offshoots. Peak boomer in a lot of ways; farming out war, putting it on the credit card and even contracting out any sense of responsibility. Postmodern ethics, even. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself.
The American Nazis in my US government are to blame.
What the world needs is a bulldozer big enough to push Israel into the Mediterranean Sea! For crying out loud, how can this be allowed to happen, despite a "war" being fought? It is clearly evident that the USA is cowardly in ALL its actions about Israel!
No, not cowardly. Israel and the USA – one and the same. In the beginning Israel was created for western control in the Middle East. That has not changed. has nothing to do with being cowards. Colonial butchers would be a better description.
Anti-palestinian racism prevails in north america. I work to expose it in canadian media. Is there anything else, any other actions to uproot it?
Israel is a war criminal nation.
End Israel!
Israel is the United States. God’s Chosen People
The United States is Israel. Doing God's work.
Israel:
God’s Chosen People
United States:
American Exceptionalism*
The Earth’s Last Best Hope**
The Indispensable Nation***
The One Indispensable Nation****
A Colonial-settler land.
The Promised Land,
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land with 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 Reservations
“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.
United States Indians
Israel, PalestinIndians
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
[ I was born and raised in Pennsylvania … Penn's (William Penn) … sylvania (forest) …
The indigenous people, Lenape people.(1)
I attended and graduated from the University of California (later named the University of California at Berkeley).
The California Native American Genocide
The Ohlone are the predominant Indigenous group of the Bay Area, including the Chochenyo and the Karkin in East Bay, the Ramaytush in San Francisco, the Yokuts in South Bay and Central Valley, and the Muwekma tribe throughout the region. There were more, far more than one hundred indigenous peoples in California .(2)
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only ask them to think”
Socrates, 470 – 399 B.C.E.
*The first reference to the concept by name, and possibly its origin, was by French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835/1840 work, Democracy in America:
“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.”
**President Abraham Lincoln
Annual Message to Congress — Concluding Remarks
Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.
“… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. …”
***It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Madeleinee K. Albright,
U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001).
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
****"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina. August 27, 2014 ( not the first or last time he uttered these words )
Please note, President Obama
clarified and specified “… the one indispensable nation …”
The President, thus, closed the rhetorical door on any other nation being “indispensable.”
In meaning and use, “the,” definite article, acts as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a “unique” or “a” particular member” of its class; i.e. “the” President as compared to “a” president.
President Obama, of course, knew this being “ivory league” educated at Columbia University (B.A.) and Harvard University (J.D.)
(1) Lenape people of Pennsylvania Name meaning: "Lenape" translates to "the people" or "the real people". Subdivisions: The Lenape were divided into three main groups: the Unami (people downriver), the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean), and the Munsee (people of the stony country). Lifestyle: They were semi-nomadic, living in villages with dome-shaped dwellings called wigwams made from bark, and relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants for sustenance. Impact of European settlement: With the arrival of Colonial-settlers, European, the Lenape were "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided."
Those not "ethnically cleansed" and "genocided" were forced on to and restricted to reservations.
(2) The first comprehensive treatments of this subject were published very recently, in 2012 and 2014. These are An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, and Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan Lindsay. Both authors are professors of history in California.