I am a Palestinian American in Pennsylvania, a contested state. I plan to write in “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary on 23 April and in November, I will vote for a third-party candidate....
As a Canadian I don’t have to deal with it directly, but I don’t think I could cast a vote for Biden. Downvotes on these posts are strange to me. From outside the US it’s obvious that while Israel bears primary responsibility for the ongoing ethnic cleansing, it likely wouldn’t have developed so completely without the material, economic, and political support of the Biden administration. Simply telling a group that, sure this guy is cool with the elimination of your people and is willing to help, but the other guy is a threat to our system… well it’s pretty rich to expect that group to suck it up.
If the criteria for declaring a state military organization as terrorists, is abuses of international humanitarian convention and the rules of war, then the Revolutionary Guard can pop onto the list along with the IDF. And a bunch of others really. Calling groups and people terrorists is pretty popular these days, but the word actually has a legitimate use, which isn’t to ratify Israeli acts of war against other sovereign nations. Even if, like Israel, those nations are run by shit heads.
I prefer that they carry on showcasing the difference between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, by applying rule of law and respect for Human rights within their system.
The United States does not provide Ukraine with capabilities to conduct strikes outside its territory, focusing instead on ensuring that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have everything they need to defend and protect their own country.
This is the reality of what’s going on, the mainstream outlets aren’t quite able to bring themselves to say it out loud. Any other nation but Israel and the sanctions would be ramping up, but here we are, still wondering if this is the atrocity that means we should stop shipping weapons to them.
People seem to still be struggling with the Israeli strategy. Like many previous genocides, including the Holocaust, which the term originates from, hunger is a primary weapon. The Ukrainian holodomir, the Irish potato famine, the Armenian genocide, the goal is to save ammunition and simply remove the infrastructure of life from the target group. Israeli attacks have destroyed the water, power, administrative, and health care of the population. The issue now is that while the people are dying, international aid is mitigating the effectiveness of destroying infrastructure. A strike like this is so blatantly targeted because it’s a signal. With 3 weapons they have shut down a channel that could provide critical nutrition to tens of thousands of borderline surviving Palestinian people every day. It’s meant to have a chilling effect on relief efforts. Combined with the slow border checks, the political efforts to defund UN relief agencies, it helps accelerate the goal of removing the population from Gaza. It’s not an accident, earlier strikes on UN relief warehouses and personnel weren’t accidents, and the killing of around 100 journalists and many of their families weren’t accidents. They’re messages, get out of the way.
This is a little bit silly, that pretty clearly was a mistake, it also led to new ROE regarding the safety cordon around approved targets. Additionally Serbia was a combatant nation, that’s why embassies often evacuate nations involved in hostilities. Israel routinely attacks 3rd country targets, they struck with multiple weapons. Syria and Iraq are not parties to the current situation in Gaza. The idea that countries with governments or general population that are not in favour of the IDF massacre of civilians means almost every country is “involved” according to Israeli targeting doctrine.
Well, Canada is a vast country with only 40 million people in it. Honestly pretty much everything said in the article is pretty reasonable. If you read through he points out the economic benefits of a growing population, but cautions that there needs to be a coordinated build-out of housing, transit, and social infrastructure like childcare. It’s not really anything crazy. The article was put out in 2019 and states a population of 37 million, it’s 2024 and we’ve ticked past 41 million. It’s more or less on track, except for all that infrastructure of course.
Amid a lack of precise information about Canadian military goods being sold to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have repeatedly claimed that only “non-lethal” goods have been authorized for export since October 7....
We’re at least having the argument. America and the EU are just shipping the weapons, business as usual. It’s perhaps more useful to support efforts to clean up our arms export system rather than imply it doesn’t matter because “historical human rights offences”. Every nation has darkness (more or less) but export reform feels like progress.
NATO is not doing enough for Ukraine and some countries in the alliance don’t “understand that the conflict is here and that we need to deal with it,” Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Euractiv on March 27.
Now that article 5 has entered the chat, Gripen watch is back on. What I’d love to see is a more standardized situation where, instead of scrounging some F16s, we see a procurement contract. Would be a shiver down the collective Russian spine if they announce that Gripen E is the new mainline jet of the Ukrainian air force, and that deliveries will start Soon™. It has connotations. These aren’t a loan, they’re not a gift. We bought them, they’re Ukrainian, and you may just see them flying sorties over Russia. 120 airframes with sustainment and weaponry, some tasty Meteor missiles sprinkled in.
All available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties.
Russia is using a similar strategy, it’s been in practice since WW2. Destroy everything and move forward into the rubble. Innovation in urban warfare is the type of low collateral precision combat that became a feature of counter insurgency fighting during the “War On Terror”. Also, the statement that “all evidence shows…” is blatantly false.
The Biden administration’s policy on Gaza has been widely criticised as being in disarray as the defense secretary described the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe” the day after the state department declared Israel to be in compliance with international humanitarian law....
Unfortunately that option has never been tested against a nuclear weapons state. That makes a huge difference. Iraq was a powerful regional military when they invaded Kuwait, a coalition of forces promptly rocked up and slapped the empire building off their face.
When Russia invaded Ukraine the situation was similar in every way but one, Russia can respond to a catastrophic battlefield outcome with nuclear escalation.
Israel both has nuclear capacity and has very little strategic depth. Whatever doctrinal tripwire they use to determine the deployment scenario for their nuclear deterrent could quickly be reached, meaning that moving in force to end the genocide is functionally impossible.
Currently we would be able to tell that our governments are actively trying to intervene if we see sanctions starting to appear. Right now the Whitehouse can say what they want to damage control the situation, the US is actively providing political, economic, and material support to the activities of the IDF. If that stops, then you know they are trying to do something, until then, keep protesting.
Of course they will. This little spat with America over how difficult the genocide is for Biden’s campaign hasn’t slowed down the flow of material aid. They know they can do whatever they want, they’ve pushed as far as broadly declared and publicised genocide without significant consequences, really the only boundary they have left to test is nuking Tehran or something.
This reminds me of the scene in Schindler’s List where the Nazi officer takes a rifle out onto his balcony and amuses himself by shooting and killing some of the Jewish camp inmates. Once a group has it’s humanity stripped away from it the darkest side of people will show in how they are treated.
It’s not about our own under funded military, it’s about the export products. Canada has a sizable arms industry. For example we have exported over 1000 Senator armoured vehicles to Ukraine. We are a project partner in the F35 program as well, which I assume will mean that deal will be grandfathered to allow Israel to continue to receive them. This is unequivocally a good announcement, hopefully it will lead to more nations moving away from supplying the IDF.
Kruggsmash is so creative and cool. I don’t play DF, I bought a copy though because I love watching the stories it creates. I hope I’ll get into sometime, but just a little support in the meantime.
Capital gains tax 'last thing the Canadian economy needs,' say business groups (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Trudeau’s Ex-Finance Minister Criticizes Capital Gains Tax Hike (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone (www.theguardian.com)
I am a Palestinian American in Pennsylvania, a contested state. I plan to write in “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary on 23 April and in November, I will vote for a third-party candidate....
Tech industry warns budget's capital gains proposals could cause 'irreparable harm' (www.collingwoodtoday.ca)
Sounds like the tax is on point!
Israel calls on Canada to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist group (www.cbc.ca)
Transformation complete (lemmy.world)
US Slams Strikes on Russia Oil Refineries as Risk to Oil Markets (www.bloomberg.com)
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Ukrainian who helped Russians direct missile that killed 13 people in Kramatorsk sentenced to life in prison (gwaramedia.com)
US does not provide Ukraine with capabilities to conduct strikes outside its territory – Pentagon (www.pravda.com.ua)
The United States does not provide Ukraine with capabilities to conduct strikes outside its territory, focusing instead on ensuring that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have everything they need to defend and protect their own country.
Airstrikes on aid workers don't 'just happen,' Trudeau says of Netanyahu’s reaction (montrealgazette.com)
World Central Kitchen is demanding an independent investigation on the strikes....
World Central Kitchen pauses Gaza operations, saying 7 foreign aid workers killed during IDF attack including US citizen (abcnews.go.com)
Israeli airstrike on Iran consulate in Syria kills six reportedly including IRGC commander (www.theguardian.com)
Canada needs to get to 100 million people by 2100: BlackRock's Wiseman (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Stat Can Data Raises More Concerns About ‘Non-Lethal’ Israel Exports (www.readthemaple.com)
Amid a lack of precise information about Canadian military goods being sold to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have repeatedly claimed that only “non-lethal” goods have been authorized for export since October 7....
Germany set to add citizenship test questions about Jews and Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)
Some NATO countries ‘don’t understand urgency of stopping Russia,’ says Swedish FM (kyivindependent.com)
NATO is not doing enough for Ukraine and some countries in the alliance don’t “understand that the conflict is here and that we need to deal with it,” Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Euractiv on March 27.
Israel Has Created a New Standard for Urban Warfare. No One Will Admit It (www.newsweek.com)
All available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties.
Biden administration’s Gaza strategy panned as ‘mess’ amid clashing goals (www.theguardian.com)
The Biden administration’s policy on Gaza has been widely criticised as being in disarray as the defense secretary described the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe” the day after the state department declared Israel to be in compliance with international humanitarian law....
Netanyahu Cancels Washington Delegation Visit After U.S. Abstains From U.N. Cease-Fire Vote (www.forbes.com)
Gaza drone video shows killing of Palestinians in Israeli air attack | Al Jazeera Newsfeed (youtube.com)
Canada to stop sending arms to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says (www.thestar.com)
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Yes, with extra SALT please
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
Gaza war: UNRWA says Rafah aid centre hit by Israeli forces (www.bbc.com)