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As over 100 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces while gathering for food aid in Gaza City, we speak to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who in November became the second of only five U.S. senators to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In January, he traveled to the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to witness the system of humanitarian aid deliveries, which he described on the Senate floor as a "complicated, bizarre inspection process." Merkley is now calling for the U.S. to bypass Israel in order to directly send aid to Gaza. Because of the United States' relationship to Israel "more closely tied than any situation in the world" Merkley says, "It's the United States that has leverage to address this situation, and the world expects us to take the lead."
Autumn
(45,167 posts)not about Hamas anymore.
jimfields33
(16,741 posts)Autumn
(45,167 posts)t stopped being about Hamas when they started bombing the refuges and firing on innocent starving people.
jimfields33
(16,741 posts)Autumn
(45,167 posts)Bye. You have a real nice day.
jimfields33
(16,741 posts)TiberiusB
(490 posts)Are you saying that if at least 30k+ Palestinians aren't killed, including 12k children, then the 846 or so civilians killed on October 7 and all the others raped and mutilated are being forgotten?
And the IDF has never raped a single Palestinian, or even other female IDF soldiers? I'd suggest doing a little research.
You seem to be operating under the belief that some crimes are permissible if you favor the perpetrator, while any crimes by those you don't favor demand utter annihilation.
Here's a thought, the HAMAS attack can be wrong and abhorrent, and so can the Israeli response. You can't stack "wrongs" in the hope that you ultimately reach a "right".
Oopsie Daisy
(3,101 posts)No, the United States is not "complicit" in Israel's completely justified war against Hamas. With regard to the civilian deaths, it is instead correct to say that Hamas is "complicit" (if that's the word that must be used) ... but not the United States. Hamas is the one who intentionally puts civilians in harm's way and who uses civilians as "human shields" and propaganda.
(Prediction: Without reading the entire post, someone will come along and say "OopsieDaisy is laughing at civilian deaths." In 3...2...1...)
Basic LA
(2,047 posts)It'll be argued here that killing civilians in war is only natural.
[synonyms: normal, common, everyday, legitimate, ordinary, organic.]
Machine-gunning starving civilians gathered for meager food handouts is not Natural.
Where is the spirit that moved us to rise up and protest the abomination of Vietnam? Where is the spirit that--fighting racial injustice--brought wide-spread cultural change? Is that spirit dormant in us now? Or is it dead, along with the starving children machine gunned today?
PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts)But we are not permitted to call them out here because that is "Bashing"! LOL
Uncle Joe
(58,957 posts)Have you heard of any Republicans coming around yet?
PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts)The Killing Must END.
Uncle Joe
(58,957 posts)The realistic capability and flexibility of adapting to a diverse, rapidly, changing world precisely because the Democratic Party is diverse.
The Republican Party on the other hand are too rigid in their thinking, they don't have room for diversity or differing opinions and ideas because they're literally owned.
The modern day GOP is a cult to oligarchy, that's why *rump is their God and that's why he has a pup tent in his pants for Putin.
PTL_Mancuso
(276 posts)Absolutely massive changes in human behavior and demands on the environment must happen yesterday! But the hedge funds that we call our "governments" will not permit it. They believe they will be safe, somehow. The wasting of the earth by its people (esp. those in the richest nations) gets me into a Gordian Knot of a cringe. Too many entitled folks think the problem is Someone Else's and refuse to change, refuse to buy less, refuse to eat less meat and fish, refuse to waste less, refuse to drive less, jet less. What'll they tell their grandkids as floods and fires consume everything around? It will not matter at that point who they think was at fault.
It will take many decades to fix things, and a long time to see positive results on a global scale, but that's only if drastic measures are taken now. But they aren't even being seriously considered, let alone enacted.
Happy Sadie Hawkins Day!