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David__77

(24,860 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 11:08 PM Aug 2025

No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark calls Gaza war a "genocide"

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) referred to Israel's war in Gaza as a "genocide" during an event in her district on Thursday, according to a video clip obtained by Axios.



Driving the news: Clark made the remark as she was confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters at an event hosted by Quaker group Friends Meeting at Cambridge.

"We each have to continue to have an open heart about how ... how we take action to in time to make a difference," Clark said in the clip.

"Whether that is stopping the starvation and genocide and destruction of Gaza, or whether that means we are working together to stop the redistricting that is going on, taking away the vote from people."



https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/israel-gaza-genocide-katherine-clark-democrat

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usonian

(26,593 posts)
1. Objectively, Israel is not helping Gazans, the US isn't Arab nations aren't, Russia isn't, China isn't. Hamas sure isn't
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 11:21 PM
Aug 2025

Some medical and food volunteers?
It's a fucking crime where EVERYONE is guilty (except the pawns, but pawns never counted anyway)
Last year's election "assured destruction" of Gaza.
"Trump Gaza", It's not just an AI fake movie.
It's a plan.

AloeVera

(4,415 posts)
3. Well, the resorts will have to compete with over a million Israeli settlers.
Sun Aug 17, 2025, 04:52 PM
Aug 2025

According to the Israeli plan.

"Trump Gaza" is just a ruse, a ploy. Gaza will be Israeli, as it was planned.

It sickens me. It's like watching a dystopian movie where over a span of nearly a century, the dispossessed, oppressed and brutalized have hung on to one hope, one dream, have suffered and many died, and the denouement at the end sees that last hope crushed and the oppressors declaring total victory. Except this is in real life.

Unlike the AI Trump Gaza fake movie, the Israeli Gaza movie is real.

We're now at the part where the ethnic cleansing plan begins. See the "transfer" of a million people from Gaza City to near the Egypt border.

cliffside

(1,778 posts)
2. I'm a bit confused, maybe I'm missing something, was the destruction of Gaza being comparing to redistricting?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:18 AM
Aug 2025

I just do not see how one can equate the two in the same sentence.


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