The delivery last Fri of the assurance letter signed by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant comes as #Israel & the Biden admin are locked in a contentious debate over Israel’s plan for a major military offensive in the southern #Gaza city of #Rafah. Biden has warned that the operation risks a #humanitarian catastrophe & called it a “mistake,” acc/to #NationalSecurity adviser #JakeSullivan.
A team of snr Israeli ofcls is due in DC early next week, at Biden’s request, to discuss the ongoing #offensive.
@joeinwynnewood@Nonilex why? Because it's a Jew this time instead of a Nazi? Dude. Crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity. Your religion that SPECIFICALLY says not to do that (multiples times) and it's been done to you means nothing if you're doing it. At that point you're no longer Jewish. You're as good as a Nazi. So Netanyahu should ABSOLUTELY stand trial in Nuremberg for what's he's doing. Like a Nazi. I don't know how the man sleeps with himself at night.
For starters, please don't tell me what it means to be Jewish.
Second, there is nothing that has happened in the civilized world that compares to the horror of Nazi Germany's multi-year project to exterminate every Jew in Europe as well as Roma and others.
Your doing so is abhorrent.
What is happening today is undoubtedly war crimes, arguably genocide, but that argument is yet to be had and as @justafrog says at the ICC in the Hague.
@joeinwynnewood@Nonilex Me too! If Netanyahu wasn't spending so much time campaigning for himself, maybe Israel wouldn't have been invaded by a bunch of terrorists...
He has much to answer for to Israelis and the Jewish diaspora as well as Palestinians as do the leaders of Hamas who intentionally precipitated the destruction that has happened.
The #NationalSecurity memorandum signed by #POTUS#Biden on Feb 8 was a response to rising concerns about Israel’s conduct of the #war. It repeated many of the arms transfer rules in place in #UnitedStates#Law & #InternationalLaw, but included NEW assessment, transparency & reporting requirements.
While the memo applies to >70 countries receiving US weaponry, more restrictive reporting requirements are placed on 7 countries currently involved in armed conflict, incl’g both #Israel & #Ukraine.
Each [of the 7] was given an initial 45 days for a snr ofcl to provide “credible & reliable written assurances” that it will use #UnitedStates defense material in accordance w/ #InternationalHumanitarianLaw & other laws.
The #LawOfWar imposes specific requirements on #targeting, protection of #civilians & treatment of #POWs.
The memo also requires recipient countries to “facilitate & not arbitrarily deny, restrict or otherwise impede, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of #UnitedStates#humanitarian assistance” or US-supported international efforts to provide #aid.
#Israel has repeatedly said it is not impeding aid & charged the #UnitedNations w/incompetence in distributing assistance & #Hamas w/ looting aid trucks. The #Biden admin has disputed those assertions.
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