The State Department claimed on Monday that Israel is using US weapons without violating international or US law despite the massive civilian casualties in Gaza and the starvation blockade imposed on the Strip.
Under a new national security memorandum, the US requires countries armed with US weapons to provide assurances that they won’t violate international law or block humanitarian assistance. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant gave the assurances in a letter he issued earlier this month.
The State Department is also claiming Israel is not violating international law by imposing restrictions on aid entering Gaza, which has caused severe levels of acute food insecurity for 100% of the Strip’s population.
“We’ve had ongoing assessments of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law. We have not found them to be in violation, either when it comes to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance. We view those assurances through that ongoing work we have done,” said State Department spokesman Matt Miller. The State Department has until May 8 to submit a report to Congress on Israel’s compliance with international law.
By backing the Israeli assurances, the Biden administration can continue to arm Israel to support the slaughter in Gaza, which has killed over 32,000 Palestinians, including over 13,000 children. The certification from the US came after a video was released of an Israeli drone killing four unarmed Palestinian men in a series of strikes. The last man was killed while trying to crawl away from the scene of the initial drone strike.
Dozens of congressional Democrats have urged President Biden to suspend military assistance to Israel by invoking foreign assistance laws that prohibit aid to countries that block humanitarian assistance. But so far, the pressure hasn’t worked, as the $1.2 trillion funding bill President Biden signed over the weekend included $3.8 billion in annual military aid for Israel.
On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris said she wouldn’t rule out “consequences” for Israel if it launches a ground assault on Rafah, which is packed with 1.5 million Palestinians. But she did not specify if that meant a reduction of military aid. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist he will attack the city no matter what the US thinks.
Where is the Hague?
In their pocket.
It drowned in a bucket of Sh*t.
It does not matter,the US and Israel are not going.We are the big kids with Nuclear Weapons which we are fully prepared to use. In other words don’t fuck with us.
Then the world might follow the Bin Laden Method – dupe the USA (and ASI) into disproportionately spending money it doesn’t have until the USA (at least) is impossibly far into debt, and so morally bankrupt that BRICS / de-dollarisation and decoupling from American hegemonic alliances make nuclear armaments entirely irrelevant & the USA a 4th-World crapfest.
bin Ladin did not dupe the US.
bin Ladin family and Bush family are/were old friends.
as well as the Saudi Royal family, all 3 thick as thieves.
i will concede that the US was indeed duped, but that duplicity was perpetrated by our own govt (Bush admin).
By “duped”, I mean that OBL recognized that the greatest enemy to the USA is the USA’s own vengeful overkill mindset. He knew that provocations against America always elict disproportionate response – and if we accept the Common Narrative of 9/11 (i am not inclined to, as a rule) then the dollar-return on Al Q’s efforts on 9/11 (what Al Q spent):(what America spent in response) is phenomenal.
The estimate I believe, is 1,000,000:1. For each dollar Al Q spent to perpetrate 9/11 (allegedly), the ‘States dumped $1 million in blind vindictive revenge.
A huge hit to the National Debt vs. chump-change from some KSA princes.
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Riiight. check this out: From ME Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-drone-footage-kill-four
US Claims ………. Warning! Incoming Bullshit!
You can take it for gospel, when Washington officially declares something false … and that’s mega-ditto for “Ukraine had nothing to do with it.”
You sounded just like the late George Carlin.
He would have an absolute field day! So much material, so little time.
8.1B people on this planet, the sum total of those inclined to believe a word of this government wouldn’t tax the hospitality of Tokelau.
Was the IDF massacring 400+ Israelis on 7.Oct following International Law ? Is the Hannibal Directive part of international law now ?
When US talks about International Law, they are referring to the US version of it which is the Rule-Based Order…!
“Rules for thee; different rules for me.”
Also: “f*ck thee, we are the indispensable one”
No, Hamas was.
Plenty of Israelis have testified that IDF gunships and tanks massacred 400+ Israelis that day.
Last 2 president of the us, one a fraud and the current one is a senile racist warpig.
I came to appreciate the Pakistani leadership that carried out genocide in Bangladesh because their actions was the reason Bangladesh came free of the basketcase Pakistan. I came to appreciate low iq bush and his neocon handlers( highly intelligent bunch without a doubt but blinded by arrogance and certain assumptions) because of how their actions ended the unipolar order.
Now I see that disgusting creature Biden I feel rage. Children being slaughtered in live tv is anger inducing and i do hope there is a coup in Egypt and they open rafa so people who wants to do something about it can do so. but I m sure I will come to appreciate that senile creature and his incompetent handlers because of their invaluable help for the multipolar order.
… and the devoutly to be sought destruction, root & branch, of the Neocons Nazis.
That particular tree has many branches from Mississippi to Ukraine with a stopover in Trumpville.
That only applies if we live to see it.
The senile creature is the using the bloodiest way to get there.
The senile creature started the term with chaos and will leave in even more chaos.
Bloody chaos is likely to be his legacy, when simple common sense and realpolitik and diplomacy could have worked.
Mr. Trump rode on the wave President Obama presented.
There was an attempted coup in the U.S. during the 1930’s. It was stopped by an honorable U. S. Marine Major General, Smedley Butler. There WAS a coup in the U.S. on November 23, 1963. (I am in agreement with Mr. Ron Paul on that)
Most people in the world will live happier and better lives when US and Canadian governments are torn apart by rich people stoking hatreds.
and EU and UK and NATO.
So the next time the Russophobs comment that Putin is committing genocide just use the U.S. excuse.
What else can US officials say? They have no choice now but to double down on lies hoping there are still some people in US relying on “mainstream” mediia for information. This is strictly for internal consumption.
It’s strictly to allow the munitions to keep flowing.
Corrected Title: “US Claims Israel Is Following US Rule-Based Order International Law”
The once wealthy US/NATO Western democracies are in the hands of characterless and deranged scum bags. They have become valueless criminal leaders of Banana Republics.
Tora Nuland, the rat, knows it and most likely that is why she jumped the sinking, rudderless ship.
I don’t think Victoria Nuland jumped ship because the ship was lead by scumbags. Nuland likes scumbags because only scumbags would commit to the criminal lunacy she favors.
Claim all you want… But people outside US can see that is an absolute Lie….!
Repeat the claim next week and the following week, and so on, the US public would eventually believe it…!
The Zionists are following the play book of the yanks who are past master at GENOCIDE MASS MURDER ECT just ask the native Americans or the Vietnamese just to name a few .
Ask people in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam concerning the successful “missions” of murder.
Yanks are people, and some people do bad things, not all, but enough do to really make a difference. Want me to go after Europeans and their historical atrocities? Well, I think you know them already, so I won’t.
Can anyone still believe there is anyone with honor left in Genocide Joe’s government?
Honor? You just made me spit out my coffee.
LIES, the tactic being used by those collaborating with the Zionist, to continue the Genocide of Palestinians. Israel, USA, Britain, will be held responsible for their War Crimes, because you can NOT hide the atrocities being viewed by the World every day. Members of Congress who voted to keep sending arms/money to commit War Crimes, hope you are ready to be charged! Save our Republic, Save our Constitution, vote OUT the traitors, who violate our Constitution.
Ginah, we have a problem, the inhumane, criminal power elite picks the people we may vote for.
We have the choice to not vote, that is no real choice.
It was bloody riots that made the civil rights legislation and the end of the Vietnam war possible.
All the protests didn’t stop the Vietnam war. It ended in 1975 because the US went bankrupt and went off the metal standard and the fiat money of Nixon was instituted. Just like today, if there are massive protests, nothing will change except maybe the body count of the protestors. Money is energy and power, and that’s what drives Wash. policy. Same ol’, same ol’. World without end, amen, amen.
That is all true, the war was lost for a long time and they kept fighting it, just like in Ukraine and Afghanistan and Gaza now. The people had enough, there was a civil rights movement and the draft . Working class young men were drafted and paid with their lives and the college students were exempt. They started the lottery based on birth days, and the protests increased and ended the draft. And as always the officials lied and we had the secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos under Nixon and the Pentagon papers.
“People in Gaza are starving”
Kamala Harris, March 3rd.
We have not found them to be in violation, either when it comes to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance.
State Department spokesman Matt Miller, March 25th.
Someone is lying, and hold onto your boots, it isn’t the cackling bitch.
Do not worry. If she ends up being President, she will be prohibited from mistakenly telling the truth again.
At this point, she would be a better President than either front runner. Still voting 3rd party though.
The pro-Biden posters here remind me regularly why not to vote for Biden. The pro-Trump posters have recently gotten quite active in reminding everyone that Trump is just as evil.
“Israel is following international law”
really. check this out =
Israel’s white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/3/25/israels-toxic-legacy-bombing-southern-lebanon-with-white-phosphorus
“an environmental chemistry researcher at the American University in Beirut (AUB), has been looking at white phosphorous dropped by Israel onto Lebanese soil for nearly six months.
Then, one day, a sample he and a colleague were looking at burst into flames.
That should not have happened. The samples had been dropped over Kfar Kila on October 17 and collected on November 10 after it had rained in the area.
They had been “spent” for nearly a month by the time Baalbaki tested them.”
look at the map in that link.
Israel is not at war with Lebanon.
google = “Article 2 of the same protocol prohibits the deliberate use of incendiary weapons against civilian targets (already forbidden by the Geneva Conventions),”
check this out: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-drone-footage-kill-four
News MSM will not report. There was a Dr. who mentioned a reignition of a patient’s burn injuries, white phosphor used in Gaza. So much we can’t even imagine. So much evil I never thought possible.
Our government has an unbelievable contempt for us the people, they are sure they can sell every lie and we believe it no matter how absurd.
MSM does the cover up.
That contempt comes from the powerful, the true government. Oligarchy.
USA – (blinking innocently) “What ? The gov’t of Israel is following the same ‘international law’ that WE ALWAYS ALWAYS follow…”
“Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
‘Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure.’ (commondreams, 3/25/24)
“The [UN] Human Rights Council on Monday published a draft report that found ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a move that came on the same day as the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the ongoing war.
“The advance unedited version of the report—entitled Anatomy of a Genocide—concludes that Israel’s far-right government and military ‘have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.'”
A draft? Are they waiting for the US and Israel to finish them off?
“A draft? Are they waiting for the US and Israel to finish them off?”
gonna hopefully imagine they wanted to go public w/it asap – seeing it coming may embolden other actors to publicly contradict US-Israel narrative?
Short of military confrontation by other countries with like weapons, it will not be stopped. It will be forgotten just like Protective Edge and Cast Lead. We, U.S. taxpayers, will foot the bill for the cleanup.
Biden just keeps digging a deeper hole for himself by betting that this will all blow over. Thanks to the case before the International Court of Justice, the relevant facts are out there and available to the public. This will hurt Biden personally at the ballot, and will only add to the distrust he has earned with all but a handful of other nations.
On one hand – as matter of both domestic politics and longstanding foreign policy – the US will under no circumstances condemn or admit Israeli crimes – apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleaning, collective punishment, genocide, hunger as weapon of war;
on the other, the US is therefore in a position where – as noted by someone here recently – to admit Israel’s many crimes would not just require cutting off military aid, but would admit US complicity and active assistance in the crimes.
Thus, e.g., the US’s, peremptory dismissal of South Africa’s ICJ ruling as “meritless.” Likewise now.
Dunno…Israel’s cutting off of aid is so massive and blatant and documented, the US brazenly lying may have ‘unanticipated effects’ – one more antagonizing reason for citizens to refuse to support Biden…and for the US along w/Israel to stand out as pariah states…
Even Trump was choking on his words in front of his Israeli interviewers recently. It would be interesting what the Repugninants are going to say about that interview.
Trump said that the mistake Israel made was allowing the pictures of the carnage and the dead to be shown, that Israel should have finished it sooner, under the cloak of darkness. He and Mr. Biden are on parallel wave lengths.
Ionesco and Beckett couldn’t write a more absurd script than what’s happening in real time. Mad Magazine stopped publishing because today’s reality can’t be parodied or satirized. Totally bonkers and out of control as the world heads toward H bomb diplomacy.
Russia too claims is following International Law in Ukraine.
And bloggers here support that.
The State Dept has a Israeli postal code.
George Orwell is hiding out in the State Dept., aka Ministry of Truth.
He was right. We are Winston now.