reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in #Gaza — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts
We are not just saying the rogue governments of Israel and Biden must be stopped. we are saying that modern ethnic cleansing that defies our commonly agreed upon global humanitarian principles is unacceptable and will not be tolerated anywhere. Netanyahu must be tried for war crimes as soon as possible, and those in the US government aiding and abetting him must also face accountability for their crimes against humanity. This is why it makes sense to resign from Biden’s state dept asap
"In a post on LinkedIn, former State Department official Paul also said he was “so proud of” [Annelle] Sheline for becoming “the third US official to publicly resign over the absolute disaster that is the Biden Administration’s continuing support for Israel’s war crimes, bombings, and starvation of innocent civilians in Gaza”.
Our democracy is paying the price for tolerating the Bush administration's refusal to abide by the Geneva Convention forbidding torture. If the formulators of the torture policy had been held accountable, it would have made it less likely for Netanyahu and Biden to engage in mass murder of non-combatant Palestinians. #Palestine
@seachanger
Agree. However, US has done this several times since WW2, as well as targeting civilian populations. Example include Korea, VN, Iraq2, among others.
The methods are already normalized in US. As long as the victims are POC.
@seachanger Lots of this is shit not even Putin does in Ukraine. Putin is plenty bad himself and BTW he is a longstanding enemy of the LGBTQ community. More generally, his policies basically combine the domestic policies of Trump with the foreign policy of GW Bush.
Netanyahu by comparison is doing the sort of shit STALIN did in Ukraine (notably starvation as a weapon of war), what Imperial Japan did in China and Korea(kill all/loot all/burn all, the "three alls") and generally acting like your worst nightmare about the middle of the last century.
"Resettlement" based on ethnic identity is another one of history's ugliest crimes, this time comparable to what settlers on Turtle Island did. Even the same language: of settlers and settlement.
@carl_klitscher@seachanger When this war is over, may it be Netanyahu hiding in a tunnel, looking at his pistol as his world collapses around him. May the ground over his head thunder and shake as the fury of the whole world slams home.
@seachanger America was already killing and torturing to death our Veterans. Seems that human life is worthless anymore. World leadership is making war ...... ok. $$$ has become top priority ...... NOT human life. DISgusting and shameful .
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